Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

John Thompson I wish they could make movies even half as funny as Easy Money today. unfortunately they can not due to lack of creativity, the Hollywood agenda and political correctness. Fortunately there are great older movies like this, foreign films, 250 years of books and good friends.

Prismark10 Rodney Dangerfield made his name in low brow slobbish roles. In Easy Money he plays Monty Capuletti, a kids photographer in New York. He is a working class guy who likes to eat junk food, drink, visit strip clubs, smoking dope and gamble with his friends which includes Joe Pesci and Tom Noonan.His mother in law, Geraldine Fitzgerald is actually a wealthy woman who owns a high end department store and she hates Monty with a passion. When she dies, she stipulates in her will that if Monty is able to give up his vices for a year, by eating good food, giving up drugs and gambling, he will receive $10 million. If he cannot, his family will get nothing and her scheming nephew Jeffrey Jones will inherit everything.The film is a bit hit and miss but is sporadically amusing. It feels rather underpowered maybe because you feel both Pesci and Noonan are underused. The film has a good theme song by Billy Joel.The subplot of Monty's daughter marrying a Puerto Rican and then is reluctant to loser her virginity to him comes across as clunky. Still Dangerfield reduxed the bare bones of the story a few years later and called it Back to School.

Michael_Elliott Easy Money (1983) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Minor comedy has Rodney Dangerfield playing Monty, a rather useless man who drinks, smokes and gambles too much, which causes his mother-in-law (Geraldine Fitzgerald) to hate him with a passion. After the rich woman dies, she puts it in her will that Monty and the rest of the family will inherit $10 million but only if he gives up all of his bad deeds. EASY MONEY is a passable comedy that has a few laughs but in the end you really can't help but look at it as a disappointment. There's no question that we get a few good laughs but the screenplay, written by Dangerfield and three others, offers up very little in regards to anything original. The main problem with the screenplay is that the premise just doesn't have much going for it. The bet of Dangerfield turning around his life doesn't come until about the forty-minute mark, which leaves us nearly an hour to sit around and watch him get sober. The first portion of the film gets some pretty funny jokes as the drunk Monty is constantly doing one wrong scene after another but these jokes are never as funny as the stand up from the actor. Another problem with the picture is a running joke where his daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has gotten married but she refuses to lose her virginity. Was this meant to be funny? If so there's not a single laugh that comes from it. Also, at 100-minutes the film goes on a bit too long. Still, there are still some funny laughs to be had and there's no question that Dangerfield is going a mile a minute as you certainly can't accuse him of slacking off. His full energy is on display and he manages to have some nice chemistry with Joe Pesci even if the actor isn't given much to work with. EASY MONEY is far from perfect and its not really what I'd call a good movie but fans of Dangerfield know the actor didn't have too much success on the big screen so this here is actually one of his better films.

MartinHafer I am not a huge fan of this film, but I've got to admit that it will most likely make you laugh. It's extremely low-brow and has a lot of cheap laughs, but sometimes a movie like this is exactly what you might need. In other words, nothing deep or requiring your full attention--just a silly movie. To me, this movie is nearly as funny as Dangerfield's follow-up film, BACK TO SCHOOL and both are fun time-passers.The plot, such as it is, is really just an excuse to watch Rodney tell a lot of dopey jokes and get in stupid situations. He is ably assisted by a pre-mafia days Joe Pesci--an amiable friend who tries to keep Rodney from losing the money left to him by his battleaxe mother-in-law in her will--provided he STOP drinking, gambling and lose weight. The end is particularly satisfying and it's a fun romp.