I love this movie so much

The Worst Film Ever

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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Michael Keaton was in a bunch of funny flicks in the Eighties and this is one of them. I go for the parody stuff with quick quips and humorous sight gags, and as a fan of gangster films, this one clicked in more ways than one. I probably got the biggest kick out of actor Richard Dimitri doing the Roman Moronie bit with all the fractured malapropisms - "You fargin sneaky bastige!" Works for me every time.So just as I was thinking that Keaton was giving it the old Jimmy Cagney swagger, news comes that D.A. brother Tommy (Griffin Dunne) and the governor plan on attending the latest Cagney release. I was anxious and hopeful that we'd get to see which one it was, and we do, although the timing of it wouldn't have worked for this movie. "The Roaring Twenties" came out in 1939, and the setting for this one was 1935 when Johnny (Keaton) relates his life story to the pet shop kid. Priscilla Lane's name was in the theater marquee along with Cagney's, so that made sense because she was second billed, but it would have been neat if Bogart's name appeared there too.There's a lot of great back-up given the principals here; Maureen Stapleton is a sketch as Ma Kelly, while Peter Boyle and Joe Piscopo always entertain. I got a kick out of the family doctor (Carl Gottlieb) ratcheting up his bill for medical services performed on Ma as Johnny's fame and reputation grew as a mobster. The blocked salivary gland was a neat malady for $7500, I hope Ma was able to spit again.Anyway, you'll have to catch this one to see the New York Yankees of Crime do their stuff, and Marilu Henner do her's. There's probably not a vermin here you won't like, and with any luck, it may keep you out of a life of crime.

I don't write many reviews but sometimes a movie just screams for one. This movie is completely awful. Wow. I heard some people say how funny it is so I decided to give it a try. I grew up in the 80's but I never saw this movie back in 1984. I am glad I didn't waste my money. I watched this movie on Amazon Prime Video and the acting is cheesy and terrible. The dialog is painful and the plot makes little sense and is just there to provide a back drop for lame one liners.I expected a little more from Micheal Keaton but I think all actors have one or two movies that they would love to forget. I imagine that Keaton cringes every time this movie is mentioned.Do not waste you time.

In 1935, pet shop owner Johnny Kelly (Michael Keaton) catches a boy stealing a puppy. He tells the boy a story to discourage stealing. In Lower East Side of NYC, Ma Kelly (Maureen Stapleton) needs an operation and Johnny starts working for criminal Jocko Dundee (Peter Boyle). The Dundee gang is at war with Roman Moronie. He hides his criminal activities and his alter ego Johnny Dangerously from his Ma and younger brother Tommy (Griffin Dunne). They're the only two who doesn't know. Tommy wants to drop out of law school. He wants to get laid. Johnny is taken with new showgirl from Pittsburg Lil Sheridan (Marilu Henner). Johnny's unstable old rival Danny Vermin (Joe Piscopo) joins Dundee's gang.I think this is trying to be Mel Brooks but it is missing the delivery. The first obvious problem is the 15 minute stretch where Johnny is a kid and there isn't a comedian in sight. The movie stalls before it gets rolling. Keaton tries his darnest. Piscopo does a good job and gets a few chuckles. There are gags and wordplay. It's written well but the end result is very few true laughs. It's gag after gag in this parody but few of it hits.

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.