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2012-05-25 12:40:17

The Funniest Movie Since Airplane!

Mafia is one of the funniest movies i ever saw! So, if you like The Godfather Trlilogy--STAY AWAY! This mob comedy will tickle you funny bones and leaves you begging for mercy.

2012-05-25 03:58:51

Good old dumb humor!

A good example of an apparently lost art - good old dumb humor. Sight gags and humorous references to other movies galore (Mob movies and other recent hits.) A lot more laughs than what passes for Movie humor lately. Maybe this dates me, but this is this the closest thing to classics like "Airplane!" and "Hot Shots!" that I've seen in some time. Mafia! is not quite on that level, but still lots of yuks for the bucks.

2012-05-15 03:19:12

funnest movie ever made

the best funnest movie ever made you think it only last 15 min because you laugh so hard

2012-05-14 22:00:15

It made me laugh all the time

Very funny movie. I loved it, fantastic. Just the perfect parody for 5 perfect movies. Lot's of fun.

2012-05-13 04:14:44

I hated this video! (I saw the video)

This video was pointless, and it wasn't even funny! My dad and I thought it was a waste of time and money to watch it. Mafia was disgusting and it didn't make sense, and I hope no one else will waste their time watching it.

2012-05-12 17:46:26

Okay, I liked it

This was an OK film. Could have been better, could have been worse

PWNYCNY 2012-05-05 04:25:34

Funny movie

I was channel surfing when purely be accident I came across this moviebeing televised on a local channel. Well, what a surprise! This is oneof the better movie satires. Goofy scenes, great one-liners, greatcomic acting, all combined to make this movie an amusing and enjoyableentertainment experience. It's surprising that this movie is not betterknown because it deserves more recognition. The movie is funny withoutbeing pretentious and pokes fun at gangster films without being nastyor cruel. The characters are endearing and the actors perform theirroles with great comedic skill. The humor is lowbrow, but that's goodbecause lowbrow humor can be funny.

Tardis1977 2012-05-04 16:35:27

comedy

I did laugh at this movie but I have seen better and I have seenworse.Its all up to you if you want to see this. There are the moments of laughter within this movie but did the Greatest movie ever made need to bedone in a comedic style?

2012-04-26 16:11:30

the funniest movie

This has to be the funniest movie ever, but it has like no extra

MovieAddict2011 2012-04-26 11:08:43

Hey, think of it this way: It's nowhere near as bad as "The Godson"!

"Mafia!" a.k.a. "Jane Austen's Mafia!" is a funny movie, but you have toexpect minimum laughs when you see it. Too many people expect maximum laughswhen they start watching for a few reasons:1. This is from the guy who helped bring us "The Naked Gun: From the Filesof the Police Squad!" and "Airplane!" I guess an exclamation mark after thetitles of his films are mandatory nowadays. Anyway, his name is Jim Abraham,and he made up the middle of the ZAZ group: Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker(yes, Z & Z are brothers). In recent years they have gone their ways, eachmaking their own. One Zucker (David) made "Baseketball" (which competedagainst "Mafia!" at the box office), another Zucker (Jerry) made the 2001release "Rat Race," and the A-in-the-middle (Jim) made this: "Mafia!". Sowhen you watch it, you immediately expect a ton of laughs, when, in fact,this is more of a lesser comedy. Even though he's not in this flick, I'llcompare it to lesser Leslie Nielsen movies. For example, remember "Dracula:Dead and Loving It!" compared to "The Naked Gun!"? That's what "Mafia!"is--the lesser brother. It's not quite as witty or humorous, but it stilldelivers laughs that never exactly amount to someone saying, "That wasgreat!"2. It offers a fairly ensemble cast, and the ads make it look pretty funny,especially after seeing Jim Abraham attached to it.3. You've got to expect the most from anything with an exclamation mark atthe end of the title.But while it's funny, it is, like I said, the lesser brother of a film like"Airplane!" or "The Naked Gun!".The plot is a loose spoof on "The Godfather Trilogy," with jokes rangingfrom gags about a small boy emigrating to America (see Don Corleone) and aman having to kill someone in a restaurant, where he looks for the gun in abathroom (see Michael Corleone). The actual plot, if there is one, is about a man who grows up in a Mafiafamily, and must come to facts regarding his heritage and what he must do tocarry the family legacy after his father dies. The whole thing is a setup for lots of "Godfather" gags, which see a youngMafia-Boss-to-be causing trouble in Italy and moving to America, where hesets up a family of organized crime. (Which I kind of already told youbefore, but I'm laying the plot down a bit thicker here.)I've said it before and I'll say it again: The funny thing about slapstickis that even if the film is lousy, you're guaranteed to get more laughsevoked out of you than most subtle comedies will generate. For example, youwatch a subtle comedy, and you really enjoy it. But you just didn't laughvery much while you were watching it. You watch "Mafia!" and it generatesdozens of chuckles at least, but somehow it's still not as good as thesubtle comedy you watched before which generated about five laughs. Why isthis? The only reason I can think of is because in failed slapstick whilethere are many laughs, not many of them are as great as they could be.Slapstick (also) doesn't usually have great plots. Subtle comedies usuallybuild up deeper characters, emotions and plots, making them better. Soreally, slapstick and comedy are on two very different levels. I can laugh ahundred times more watching slapstick and still say I liked the regularfive-laughs-an-hour comedy better. I just thought that was interesting topoint out.In the end, I wasn't exactly disappointed in "Mafia!" but it could have beena lot better consider what it was spoofing. I mean, it set out to spoof oneof the most fondly remembered film legacies in recent years, and it cameback a bit crippled, if somewhat humorous. There's no excuse for why itdidn't live out to its full potential: It had a great director, a greatcast, and like I said before: It sets out to spoof one of the best filmtrilogies of all time and comes back a bit crippled, if humorous.It could've been better, but I still had a good time watchingit.3/5 stars -John Ulmer

2012-04-26 01:45:00

One of the greatest comedy movies.

This movie has many take off's on many other movies. If you have seen the godfather it will make a lot more sense. I haven't seen the Godfather but I still found it freakin hilarous! I loved it!

2012-04-25 12:51:42

Endless Laughs!

I think Mafia! was one of the greatest movies of all time! From the first scene to the last, I just didn't stop laughing! This has deffinitely made a spot on my all-time favorites list!

Razo 2012-04-20 14:49:20

Forget About It.

Decent concept, decent comedic crew, but terrible outcome. There are very few laughs in this so-called "comedy", and those laughs would only be enjoyable for those that notice the resemblance between the godfather/mob movies. It's too bad this is Lloyd Bridge's last movie, since it is a rather embarrassing departure. Hopefully people won't judge his career on this flop.

Mattias Petersson 2012-04-19 22:16:36

Not great

Jim Abrahams has written several of my favorite fast-paced comedies,like "Hot Shots" and "The Naked Gun", and of course my favorite"Airplane!". This was the first movie that i felt it was obvious he waslosing his touch. The comedy is not as fast-paced here as it wasbefore, nor is it as spot-on. Spoofing the "Godfather"-movies shouldn'tbe very hard really. Those movies are as potentially silly as greatmovies always are, walking the thin line that greatness is.The problem here is that i think they missed so many things that couldhave been spoofed, and they included some things that didn't needspoofing. The best part of the movie in my opinion is the one with theyoung Cortino coming to America. The more contemporary parts are lessfunny and more silly. Mostly i find it to be a lack in the scriptdepartment as both Lloyd Bridges and Jay Mohr are pretty suitable fortheir parts.In the end this is about 50 percent embarrassing and 50 percent funny,much like many of Leslie Nielsens later movies. It's far from "HotShots" and "Naked Gun" but then again such comedy is not what it was.

Lee Eisenberg 2012-04-13 17:45:21

I did not have sex with that woman, but I am wearing her underwear.

My 10/10 rating assumes that you're not actually going to botherlooking at this page unless you've decided that you like "Jane Austen'sMafia!" before you've seen it (I found it pretty funny). For anyoneelse, it's the sort of spoof that - as many reviews said at the time -is destined to sleep with the fishes. A gag-a-minute send-up ofhistory's most famous mafia movies, there's clearly nothing sacred tothe people behind this flick; the whole Sicily sequence makes thatclear (well, what can you expect from the director of "Airplane!"?).Where Leslie Nielsen seemingly would be is Lloyd Bridges (in his finalrole) as the aging, clumsy don.So, in conclusion, you'll only take interest in this if you accept anykind of humor, no matter how low. But you may be hungry for Italianfood after watching it. Also starring Jay Mohr, Billy Burke, ChristinaApplegate, Olympia Dukakis and Vincent Pastore.And remember: soup is good!

2012-04-13 04:32:00

Laugh out loud comedy

This is the best spoof on any Mafia movie ever made. The slap-knee inside jokes on the Godfather Trilogy and Scarface. From the very beginning when Cortino (Mohr) walks out of his casino, and looks over at his car as it says : "Please use the other car" and he just shrugs it off and then goes over to that car, it spoofs not only Mafia movies, but your Forrest Gump, The English Patient, and Twister. The Casino spoofs are so funny when Cortino is walking through the casino and it starts talking about the games. When the movie spoofs Godfather Part II in the flashback scenes - it's truly funny, as Don Cortino as a young boy, the scene as he races to the boat, which is nickname El Pacino, so he swims all the way to New York and he is easily out of breath.To the part as Applegate's character is the President in the end, when she storms into his office, as he singing the apporiate checks i.e. bullet store, as Diane asks him if he killed all those people as he calmly replied "No" which is good enough for Mrs. President cause she replies "Oh well, I'm going to get some ice cream. See you tonight?"And Mama Cortino who takes care of her grandson's woman problems by blowing up the hotel in which she is staying at. And the Riverdance spoof cannot be missed.

David, Film Freak 2012-04-11 00:13:34

O.K.

This was definetely not as funny as it could of been. For a satire about Mobmovies it was extremely mediocre.There are some funny moments (like when Christina Applegate finds out shehas a baby) but these moments are too few and far between.The actors all played their parts fine, but it's a waste when the best partof a movie is the closing credits (even if they were veryimaginative)!

2012-04-10 14:46:17

Cement Shoes not included

This is a stupid movie, but it's a wonderful, laugh out loud stupid movie, the good kind of stupid. You know like when you drop a brownie in sweet and sour sauce and notice it's not so bad, that kind of stupid. Mafia! is a spoof of so many movies, the most notable are Casino and The Godfather I and II. You can also find Forrest Gump, The Lost World, River Dance, and Scarface. It tells the story of the Cortino family, Don Cortino, who grew up in Salmonella, Anthony Cortino, who kills a man and has ends up in Vegas running a casino, and Joey Cortino who...uh...is a drug addict and "helps" Anthony with the casino. It has many other characters. A few things I don't like are things that other movies also do, farts and projectile vomiting. Mafia! is one of the few movies I smile after, maybe I just watch to many depressing movies, I don't know, but it's good for a lot of laughs.

bob the moo 2012-04-09 10:28:26

Stupid – makes you want to watch the real gangster films

Mixing the plots of Godfather with Casino, Goodfellas etc this follows thestory of Tony Cortino who returns home as a war hero who is forced into theleadership of the Mafia following the attempted assassination of hisfather.What does the plot matter - it is broadly a copy of the first two Godfathersbut ropes in plenty of spoofs of gangster movies as well as others (egForrest Gump), however it's main success (if it has one) is that it remindsyou how good those films are. When I finished watching this I wanted towatch all the real films to wash this nasty thing out of mymind.The spoof scenes are lazy and not inspired at all - they are really easy andobvious, totally lacking any intelligence or effort. I actually enjoyspoofs - Blazing Saddles, Airplane, Naked Gun - I enjoy them all, so it'snot like I feel they're beneath me or anything. However the jokes here arestupid, I actually chuckled twice in 90 minutes (not laughed but chuckled),and both of these were at stupid jokes.The cast are OK but deserve better - when I see Vincent Pastore in thisafter being so good in Sopranos it makes me sad. Fair enough, Jay Mohrprobably doesn't deserve any better but the rest do. The saddest sight isBridges - so funny in Airplane and Hotshots, but here his clowning isrubbish. What makes it worse is that before the end credits the film isdedicated to his memory! Surely a more fitting tribute would have been toreshoot all his scenes and prevent this from being one of the last things hedid.Overall this is terrible - I'm a fan of spoofs and this barely made me laughonce or twice. This only success in reminding you how good the originalfilms were. A mess!

Fredrik Olsson 2012-04-08 22:12:27

Sorry, its crap!

I'm sorry to say that its rubbish. It doesn't have the glimpse in theeye, like Hot Shots or Naked Gun series. It just feels unnecessary. I'ma great fan of these kinds of movies, but this one was just boring andtedious. There has been a shortage of good crazy comedies for some years now,and this movie is an example of why.1 of 5.Lloyd Bridges who i really like ( hot shots ), participated in thisflick, and I'm sorry that it was the second last movie he ever did.