That’s when the D.A. Unfortunately he has a rival named Danny Vermin (Greg Olden), a nasty fellow who cuts the leash of a seeing-eye-dog, causing his blind owner to walk right out into traffic. John Peters, the films co-producer, pointed out that after seeing Keaton in Clean and Sober he knew that he was not the kind of guy you want to face in a street fight. When we first meet Keaton as the title character he’s working as the proprietor of a pet shop. It catches the eye of a gangster named Jocko Dundee (the late, great Peter Boyle). | Keaton is brilliant in this - as in most of his work. Christopher Reeve was unforgettable in the Superman movie series. With a skip in his step in his tailored pin-striped suits, he'll remind you of Jimmy Cagney! "), irony laced but with a dry sense. The IMDb is only 6.2 stars out of ten. This is not a blockbuster, bigger-than-life affair. The film begins in 1935. Turns out Johnny attached an anti-theft tag to the dog’s tail, which set off the alarm. | No matter how many times I see it, I still get a kick out of this one, and I recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. External Reviews We also see his younger brother Tommy, a wide-eyed little scamp who reads law books and colors in pictures of Oliver Wendell Holmes. I love the part when they're in the ever-changing getaway car! My grandmother once shot me, once.”. Following a disastrous 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty Marlon Brando suffered a ten-year slump before landing his career-defining role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. Jocko Dundee arrives at the nightclub/casino, run by Dundee’s archrival, Roman Maronie (Richard Dimitri), a hot-tempered Italian immigrant with a horrendous grasp on the English language (“You fugging iceholes!” “You cork suckars!”) Johnny arrives soon after, smuggling a pistol in a newspaper for Dundee. Like James Cagney or Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, he was a guy with  enough pent-up rage to take on ten men twice his size. He and Johnny get into a scuffle. When the screen starts to get blurry and some harp music plays the kid asks what’s going on. Yet as Burton saw it, this unconventional casting choice made sense. "Airplane," "Naked Gun," "Young Frankenstein," "Blazing Saddles," and "Scary Movie" top the list as among the best movie parodies ever made, but one movie that tends to get forgotten is "Johnny Dangerously." Alas, he seems to have gotten clean and between Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes his prospects look just fine, at least for the immediate future. If you like those old classic films then you need to see this, you'll get all the gags and nonsensical plot details that make it so funny. This is confused by the fact that Johnny's brother (Griffin Dunne) is the DA seeking to put New York's crime lords away. It's a hilarious spoof of all the old gangster movies of the 30s and 40s, and if you've never seen them, watch this instead. Burton accepted, then raised quite a few eyebrows when he cast Keaton as the title character. Without his director Keaton also decided to pass, even when Warner’s offered him a staggering $15 million to star in Batman III. I like those on a woman.”. Seeing that Johnny has plenty of moxie, he tells him that if he’d like to make a fifty he should stop by the Club Maronie that evening. You wanna get laid. He just works his way up from the big bosses to a beautiful wife. He and Burton reunited three years later for Batman Returns. A typical 1930’s street urchin comes in and tries to steal a puppy. FAQ In the end, people liked Keaton’s Batman. Before playing The Riddler on the Batman TV series Frank Gorshin was best known as a Rich Little-like impressionist, Cagney being his specialty. Another great Reagan era gag has a black guy walking down the street carrying a cathedral radio on his shoulder like a boom box. | Keaton then got his first big break in the film Mr. Alas, Allen realized early on that Keaton could never pass for a romantic leading man in the 1930’s. The spoof might be hit and miss, but it always remains agreeably light-weight and Keaton just had a knack for comic timing. The silly dialogues are amusingly snappy (especially the lines from Dimitri; murdering the English language "This is fargan war! It seems as if Julia Roberts has been “Americas Sweetheart” for as long as some people can remember, but she hit a rough patch between The Pelican Brief and My Best Friends Wedding with films like I Love Trouble and Mary Reilly. "Johnny Dangerously" is one of those movies that exists for the sole purpose of being silly, much like "Airplane!". Drain our energy. Still, he’s damned funny in this film. They could just kick someone’s ass. The film begins in 1935. At first they engage in a bit of Howard Hawksian banter, with Lil pretending she doesn’t like Johnny. And he does it well. All of those who voted less than 5 are obviously not fans of clean, tongue-in-cheek humor. He does a beautiful parody of someone doing a parody of James Cagney, with charm to spare. Alas, Ma Kelly continues to need pricey medical care, and so Johnny joins the Dundee gang full-time. Batman obviously came to mind and he was really good in Clean and Sober. Too many great one-liners to to remember, and while its not for everyone, anyone who DOESNT laugh a whole bunch of times doesnt have a pulse. Such things were relatively new in 1984 and they sure as hell didn’t exist in 1935. ( Log Out /  These actors were blessed to have relatively brief lulls in their otherwise sterling careers and never wanted for employment. Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man (Michael Keaton) is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills. ("You can't park here; it's a handicapped spot!" The death was ruled to be a suicide though many unanswered questions remain (see the movie Hollywoodland with the franchises current Bruce Wayne, Ben Affleck). His dinning room suddenly becomes the set of a game show with tons of fabulous prizes! Charmingly vibrant performances lend well with the likes of Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne, Joe Piscopo, Danny Deviot (who's good fun), Maureen Stapleton (she's absolutely great! This movie is just a lot of fun. One of the films best running gags involves Danny’s fairly idle threats. Co-starring James Belushi, the show only ran for nine episodes. Michael Keaton had the job of not only portraying the fictional gangster Johnny Dangerously, but he had to play the role by giving his best James Cagney impression. Johnny Kelly as a kid turned to crime (despite it would break his mother's heart if she knew), but in the order to pay for her medical bills he didn't see any other way since they were quite poor. A fireball of energy like Keaton can at times seem like a square peg to the guys at Central Casting. The "duckies and bunnies" car scene is one of my favorites, and I still quote Morone's versions of certain words! Just think of it as a little parody of "Goodfellas". It may seem as if Tom Hanks has been on an upward trajectory ever since he made a big splash in Splash way back in 1984. Johnny Dangerously is one of those movies may critics may feel is less than the sum of its parts, but those parts are fun. Dom DeLuise and Ray Walston turn up in small comic cameos too. “You think you’re pretty tough, eh kid?” Soon Johnny begins to tell the kid where a life of crime will get him. And of course like a lot of the mob movies, someone wants him dead. Johnny: Good for you Danny. The cop who's "calling all cars" is the Skipper from Gilligan's Island! Johnny has no other choice. Just take your favortie gangster movies and mix a comedy in. But one early Michael Keaton film that wasn’t a big hit but has a real big place in my heart is the 1984 cult favorite Johnny Dangerously, a spoof on the gangster films of the 1930’s and 40’s. Robert Downy, Jr. looked like he was finished by the mid-nineties due as much for his substance abuse and police blotter as his lack of good roles. Marilu Henner has a nice singing/dancing routine while Johnny revels in it. “How does it feel to be twenty-nine?” he asks. It has a talented top notch cast with hilarious writing, incredible comedy and one thing modern parodies don't have: a plot!! Writer, director, screenwriter, lyricist, historian. See this one for 1930's gangster laughs! Needless to say, they become an item. Heckerling zesty direction goes hand-in-hand with the cheerful style and it's perfectly apt with the golden age period with its set designs, locations and costume work.

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