Best movie of this year hands down!

Good movie but grossly overrated

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Madolyn Smith Osbourne and Ruben Blades star in this 1991 comedy. Pesci (Goodfellas) plays Louis Kritski Jr., a slumlord like his father, Big Lou (Gardenia) who gets sentenced to live in one of his apartments he must fix in 120 days or goes to jail. He meets a council woman from court (Osbourne) who checks in on him to see if he's doing what he supposed to do and tries hitting on her. He befriends Marlon (Blades) who tries getting him to play basketball and such. Soon, Louis realizes he can't be like his selfish father and must be his own man. I think this is one of Pesci's best and he & the late, Gardenia were great together. I recommend this.

This is another lame comedy from Joe Pesci. In this one he plays a heartless slum lord who gets a citiation for his slums being "unsuitable", and as punishment he must live in one of his own slums until he fixes all of them. A few funny lines and slapstick moments in there, but overall its a pretty lame comedy. It also tries to take a turn into drama near the end but it doesnt really work. If you want to see Pesci in a funny, enjoyable comedy, see "My Cousin Vinny"(1992). 4.9 out of 10 sounds about right.

Joe Pesci is usually a great actor. He was outstanding in Goodfellas and My Cousin Vinny, and was funny in both Home Alone movies and in Gone Fishin'. However, this movie is probably one of his pitfalls. This movie definitely had its potential for being funny. It's plot was pretty original. A superintendent forced by law to live in his run down tenement house. That's original! However, I don't know why, but it just wasn't very funny. It could've been because Pesci didn't play a spoiled adult who still takes advice from his misguided, overbearing, often wrong father. The acting may not have been too good. I don't know. It just wasn't funny. There were a few cute parts (like when Pesci dances to the M.C. Hammer music), but nothing special. Sorry, Joe, but you've had funnier movies.

Early 90's rendition of Hal Ashby's 1970 film "The Landlord," which is given the comic...or attempted comic treatment by Pesci as a snobby slumlord who moves in to his slum and sees the light; the error of his rich boy ways. Badly written and unbeliveable pretty much all the way through. One of Gardenia's final films.