Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

MBunge Johnny Dangerously is less a movie and more an exercise in grave robbing. It's an Airplane! style spoof of 1930s gangster films…which is the whole problem in a nutshell. Airplane! was a parody of the airport disaster movies that had come out and been popular in the previous decade. Johnny Dangerously is parodying films that came out 50 freakin' years before this one was made. The result is a lifeless concoction that's weighed down even further by possibly the worst performance in Michael Keaton's career.Johnny Kelly (Keaton) is a good-hearted man forced into the life of a gangster in order to pay for his sick mother's operations, only to find himself challenged on one side by a rival criminal and on the other side by Johnny's younger brother, who grew up to be a crusading district attorney. Now, there's nothing inherently funny about that plot, much like there's nothing inherently funny about an airplane crash, so the humor has to come entirely from two things.1. Mocking the clichés seen in other stories about the same thing. 2. Random bits of absurd nonsense.The problem is that this film is making fun of clichés that are half a century old, which is like kicking an old lady's walker out from under her. For a spoof to work, the audience has to remember and care about the thing being spoofed. With Johnny Dangerously, you can forget about the audience. The people who made this movie couldn't have remembered or cared about what they were spoofing because they were movies made before the vast majority of this cast and crew were even born. The forced and phony result is what you get when people try and tell a joke they don't really understand.The random bits of nonsense are a little better, but they're still 2 or 3 steps down from the inspired lunacy of Airplane! and they can't escape the stale and labored smell that pervades the whole production. Basically, the funniest thing in this motion picture is looking at how hard the hair dressers had to work to disguise Keaton's receding hairline with this poufy construction hovering above his forehead.The star of the show doesn't help matters by doing a hammy impersonation of a 1930s movie gangster instead of, you know, acting and stuff. In fact, Maureen Stapleton as Johnny's mom is pretty much the only person here giving a legitimate performance. Everybody else is vamping it up like they're doing a sketch on Saturday Night Live, which one failed SNL film after another has proved you can't get away with for 90 minutes.If you've just finished a marathon viewing of 1930s gangster flicks, you might find Johnny Dangerously passably entertaining. Other than that, you'll just be shrugging your shoulders at it all the way through.

CitizenCaine Amy Heckerling's second film Johnny Dangerously is a parody of 1930's gangster films made in the Warner Brothers' tradition. Michael Keaton stars as a middle aged gangster looking back at his life of hard knocks when he catches a kid trying to steal something from his pet store in 1935. Keaton's mother (Maureen Stapleton) has continuing health problems, so Keaton falls into crime at an early age via Peter Boyle. Meanwhile, the fargan Richard Dimitri plays a rival crime lord to Boyle and Keaton eventually rises through the ranks. Joe Piscopo has a hilarious turn as Danny Vermin, yeah that's right, Vermin! Griffin Dunne is Keaton's younger brother turned district attorney, Glynnis O'Connor his wife, and Marilu Henner plays Keaton's moll. The film looks notoriously cheap, making it seem like a television show instead of a theatrical film.The film starts out great and then slows down as expected after the first half hour. Due to the combination of dialog and gags, the film holds its own for the first half, but then it rapidly loses steam and descends into mediocrity and vulgarity in the second half. Keaton chews the scenery doing his best James Cagney impression. Stapleton has several vulgar lines that are only obnoxious, not funny. Piscopo does the "once" bit one time too many. Several supporting actors try to hold up the fort like Danny DeVito, Dom DeLuise, Ray Walston as a street vendor, Alan Hale, Jr. as a desk sergeant, and Sudie Bond as an unscrupulous cleaning lady. The second half evolves into a hit or miss television show type tone and never recovers. The closing scene utilizing The Roaring Twenties is an anachronism as is The Call Of The Wild Clark Gable film seen on a marquee earlier in the film. I think Heckerling should have known better, since the targeted audience would certainly be aware of The Roaring Twenties' actual 1939 release date. *1/2 of 4 stars.

blanche-2 Michael Keaton is "Johnny Dangerously" in this 1984 take-off on gangster movies. Maureen Stapleton plays his sickly mother, Griffin Dunne is his DA brother, Peter Boyle is his boss, and Marilu Henner is his girlfriend. Other stars include Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo.Keaton plays a pet store owner in the 1930s who catches a kid stealing a puppy and then tells him, in flashback, how he came to own the pet store. He turned to thievery at a young age to get his mother a pancreas operation ($49.95, special this week) and began working for a mob boss (Boyle). Johnny uses the last name "Dangerously" in the mobster world.There are some hilarious scenes in this film, and Stapleton is a riot as Johnny's foul-mouthed mother who needs every organ in her body replaced. Peter Boyle as Johnny's boss gives a very funny performance, as does Griffin Dunne, a straight arrow DA who won't "play ball" with crooked Burr (Danny De Vito).As Johnny's nemesis, Joe Piscopo is great. Richard Dimitri is a standout as Moronie, who tortures the English language - but you have to hear him do it rather than read about it. What makes it funny is that he does it all with an angry face.The movie gets a little tired toward the end, but it's well worth seeing, and Keaton is terrific as good boy/bad boy Johnny. For some reason, this film was underrated when it was released, and like Keaton's other gem, "Night Shift," you don't hear much about it today. With some performances and scenes that are real gems, you'll find "Johnny Dangerously" immensely enjoyable.

PWNYCNY What ever happened to Michael Keaton? What a great actor and he proves it in this movie. This movie is actually FUNNY! And the reason why this movie is funny is for two reasons: an excellent script and Michael Keaton. This movie is one of the funniest comedies in the history of Hollywood. This movie is the ultimate spoof of gangster movies. In this movie, Hollywood actually pokes fun at itself by using the the gangster movie genre as the basis for a truly original comedy. The rest of the cast is funny too, especially the supporting cast. If you like to laugh and want to watch a movie that contains nonstop humor, then this movie is for you.