Johnny Dangerously (1984)

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

This is very underrated movie! My cable company gave it only one Star out of five. The IMDb is only 6.2 stars out of ten. The acting is actually quite good. Maureen Stapleton is a hoot! Michael Keaton does a good job.This is not a serious,. dramatic movie. It is satire and as sub is excellently done!Just sit back and enjoy. Is is a fun movie!On an enjoyment scale this is 9. Okay, so it is not The Godfather, few are on that level. Pop a big bowl of popcorn, get some cold soda and then get ready for a great movie fargen movie night!

This is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my entire life. I saw this movie when I was a teenager (an age when this dreck should have been funny) and I almost walked out it was so bad. There are some funny one liners (fargin' ice hole!), but for the most part, it is pure garbage. I have often thought about renting this movie again to see if my opinions have changed, but I just don't want to loose that much time out of my life. If you are bored and waterboarding is your only form of entertainment, then go ahead and watch this movie. Otherwise, spend your time watching something better than this. Airplane is actually funny. This, is not.

I can't remember how many times I watched it. What I do remember is that after the first time I went to rewind it to re-watch, rather re-enjoy, it again. And ever since, I can't get enough of it.It's better than many of the cinematic parodies. I think it's smarter than any parody in the first place; where the whole matter shrinks into many gags and jokes about an available original. This time it's a movie of its own, and its comedy comes from spoofing a whole era of making movies, not certain ones.This cast was unerring. For me it's Michael Keaton's comic cornerstone and the gem of the necklace. This is Joe Piscopo best work in movies; he can be enjoyably memorable if it's all about this role only. Marilu Henner never looked sexier. Peter Boyle is always a star in his supporting role. Let alone Richard Dimitri the one who played the boss of the Indian mafia in America ! It forced me to save its director's name : Amy Heckerling, and its writers' as well : Harry Colomby and Jeff Harris since the first shot with the year written on the screen to be smashed by a car after a second ! Speaking of which, some moments were truly exceptional. I still savor ironies concern with cinematic stuff that used to be made in the old days such as : the image that ripples incomprehensibly whenever there is a flashback, the fireworks that go off whenever Johnny makes love, the running gag about the newspapers' seller who doesn't stop having melodramatic accidents, or the radio that gives only the news that the drama needs! Just look at the scene in which the surprise hits all of Johnny's gang while knowing that the DA is his brother; where the camera gives us the consecutive reactions even the dead guy's, to know well the wickedness of this comedy!Recall also how the brother got the Indian mobster by a conundrum, how the news transport – or transform – in jail…etc. Simply hilarity, special hilarity, doesn't stop in this movie. Did you notice how all the moral speech of the lead was just a poppycock all along since gangster Johnny is still, at the end, a pretty much gangster not a working man in a pet shop? It's a slap in the face of all the old moral movies, as if that preachment has no relation to reality and the fact is crime does pay. It is the movie's light satire and last sneer at the black and white's messages. In maybe the fifth watching I discovered some things like : how come Johnny's mother and brother go to cinema at the night of his execution??, or how Johnny's bullet, that saved his brother from dying at the movies in the nick of time, doesn't show at all in Piscopo's body later; he was so unharmed in the next shot !!, but HEY, so was Tom the cat in Tom & Jerry's numerous movies. It is all about having a nice time, Not thinking. However even thinking with this movie can't spoil it. Among me and my friends (Johnny Dangerously) is a classic of ours. It's a small gangster comedy; so creative, amusing and totally cartoonish. In fact it's great cartoon masquerading as live movie. It is not gross-out, aggressive or naked comedy. Believe it or not, they used to make these comedies "Once" !

What ever happened to Michael Keaton? What a great actor and he proves it in this movie. This movie is actually FUNNY! And the reason why this movie is funny is for two reasons: an excellent script and Michael Keaton. This movie is one of the funniest comedies in the history of Hollywood. This movie is the ultimate spoof of gangster movies. In this movie, Hollywood actually pokes fun at itself by using the the gangster movie genre as the basis for a truly original comedy. The rest of the cast is funny too, especially the supporting cast. If you like to laugh and want to watch a movie that contains nonstop humor, then this movie is for you.