Mafia!

Mafia!
by Jim Abrahams

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Actor: Billy Burke, Christina Applegate, Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges, Pamela Gidley
Director: Jim Abrahams
Writer: Jim Abrahams
Producer: Bill Badalato
Producer: Greg Norberg
Writer: Greg Norberg
Producer: Jack I. Bernstein
Producer: Jennifer Gibgot
Writer: Michael McManus
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-09
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video

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Movie Review: Very Good 'Godfather' Spoof
Summary: 5 Stars

Here's a very funny spoof on "The Godfather" story. This is a Leslie Nielsen-type silly parody, except the late Lloyd Bridges played the lead role instead Nielson.

Actually Jay Mohr was more of the lead actor in here, narrating the film and taking Al Pacino's "Godfather" role while Christina Applegate took Diane Keaton's character.

There are a number of laugh-out-loud lines in this movie and a number of overdone slapstick scenes. As with any comedy in which the material comes at you at a rapid pace, you get a lot of funny stuff and a lot not-so-funny. They come at you so fast you can hardly keep up.

For added laughs, check out the written material on background buildings, street signs, etc. on this film. You almost have to freeze-frame some scenes to "read" all the jokes, but they're worth it.

This movie did do something that Hollywood films rarely have done: poke fun at a Democrat. Usually, the cheap shots are reserved for Republcians (Nixon, Gingrich, Reagan, Bush, etc) but here we have the famous "But I never had sex with that woman!" line delivered in a obvious reference to our buddy Mr. Bill.

Also points should be awarded for having several actors from the actual Godfather films make appearances here, too. The film was dedicated "in loving memory" to Bridges. Well, he certainly went out with a laugh.

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Summary of Mafia!

What do you get when you cross the godfather with hot shots! mafia. The hilarious comedy that parodies organized crime and stars lloyd bridges as the clumsy godfather who must hand over his power to either his psychotic son or his war hero son. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/21/2002 Starring: Jay Mohr Christina Applegate Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Pg13

This hapless comedy may actually work a lot better on video than it did in theaters. A parody of contemporary mob movies (with a few sidebars skewering such hits as Forrest Gump and The English Patient), Mafia! most closely resembles the first two Godfather films in its generational saga of a gangster family. Lloyd Bridges plays Don Cortino, a native Sicilian who presides over a crime syndicate, and Jay Mohr plays his Michael Corleone-like son. The film is by Jim Abrahams, formerly of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker directing team (Airplane!, The Naked Gun), single- handedly trotting out the old dumb-joke aesthetic that worked wonderfully a lifetime ago but looks a little creaky in the era of There's Something About Mary. Silly allusions to every crime film (GoodFellas, Casino) produced in the last three decades and featuring at least one wise guy or made man find their way into Mafia!'s gags, but most are arbitrary and shrugged off. The film tanked in theaters for good reason; on the other hand, Mafia! might have a lot more to offer if you're slumped on your own couch at the end of a long day, ready for brain-dead entertainment and absolutely apathetic about comic integrity. Even a film this instantly stale on the big screen might have its place in video posterity. -- Tom Keogh

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