Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

mark.waltz Movies have been spoofed by themselves since the early days of Hollywood. Every archetype of film has had a day as a victim of polite ridicule over the years from westerns, horror movies, disaster flicks, and even the big musical. Prior to the fast-moving gags of "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun", there was the film version of the Broadway farce "Hellzapoppin'" where the gags flew faster than the stuffed stork with a baby over its audiences head. Mel Brooks brought back the genre years later, spoofing Gothic horror and westerns; Even Alfred Hitchcock got a good ribbing. By the time all the former serious actors got together to show they knew how to provide a silly laugh for "Airplane!", the genre was perfected, and even to this day, just the sight of Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges in their earlier films can bring on hysterical laughter.Fast forward two decades. After the gut-busting "Naked Gun" and "Hot Shots!" films (some better than others) came "Loaded Weapon", "Fatal Instinct" and even "Repossessed!", the disastrous spoof of "The Exorcist". Leslie Nielsen got in the custom of playing serious looking men who were actually much less serious. Between "Spy Hard" and "Dracula: Dead and Loving It", even playing "Mr. Magoo", Nielsen became the King of Serious Actors turning to comedy. After all these films, the gags got sillier, some might even say tasteless, and in the case of "Jane Austen's Mafia!", just plain stupid.O.K., so there are some moments of laughter which prevail in this rip-off movie that takes "The Godfather" to a new level of lowness. Nielsen isn't there for this entry in the genre. Lloyd Bridges, in his last film, takes on the role of the aging Mafia don whose big scene has him doing a break dance while being pelted with bullets. The story is told through the eyes of his youngest son, the obvious Michael Corleone clone (Jay Mohr) and goes back to the youthful days of Bridges' character, Vincenzo Cortino, in Italy, where his mob future becomes set in thumbs....I mean stone.Although everybody keeps a serious face throughout, it is not easy to sit there and watch them make absolute fools of themselves, although most of them probably cried all the way to the bank. The biggest abuse goes to the phenomenal Olympia Dukakis whose flatulent matriarch (Bridges' senile mother!) barely says a word and literally gasses someone to death. Christina Applegate comes off a bit more dignified as the Diane Keaton take-off, but the remainder of the cast seems totally naive as to the Derick they are involved in which seems to be peppered with unnecessary gags and moments of insipidness that they were obviously oblivious to.As for Bridges, I give him credit for his longevity and his speaking voice alone could add value to the dullest of anything he was in. He does get one of the funniest visual gags here concerning a slice of watermelon, but it is an absolute shame that he couldn't have ended his career with something that while lacking in dignity might have at least been a whole lot funnier than this rip-off movie that couldn't even leave "Forrest Gump" alone.

jerome_horwitz Mafia stars Jay Mohr as Anthony Cortino, son of mafia Don Vincenzo Cortino played by Lloyd Bridges. It also features famous actors like Christina Applegate, Billy Burke, and Joe Viterelli.This movie primary spoof targets seem to be The Godfather and Casino. But have no fear, many non-mafia related movies are used for material as well, they even found a way to mix in E.T. There's a Jaws inspired water scene, and a Forest Gump reference that's quite hilarious, and many more of course.Overall, the story is a basic mafia style movie, but with big ladle of simple minded comedy served over the top of it. Lloyd Bridges is awesome and very funny. Jay Mohr (a comedian in his own right) is also very funny. Over all, if you enjoy slap stick type humor this movie should provide a few hearty laughs, and every actor in the movie has a chance to deliver laughs.Currently this movie is a little under rated, possibly due to misplaced expectations. 7/10

ccthemovieman-1 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 (see the Marx Brothers films from 70 years ago to see some of the origins of comedic mayhem), you get a lot funny and not-so-funny. They come at you so fast you can hardly keep up. I found that there were a lot of funny lines written on background buildings, street signs, etc. on this film. You almost have to freeze-frame some scenes to "read" all the jokes, much less hear them.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. Well, good for them. About time the Liberals were recipients of a cheap shot or two. It only happens about once every 25 years in films. So, I give this film points for being "fair and balanced."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, so I assume this was his last movie. Well, he certainly went out with a laugh.

mycatslyone I stumbled upon this movie a couple weeks ago & thought it was so funny! You have to be mafia-conscious to know what's going on & what films these spoofs are taken from in order to get the gist. The Godfather films, Casino, Goodfellas (even Jurassic Park & Forrest Gump are thrown in as a bit of a surprise!) There's a 'Ginger-type' girl from Casino paroding Sharon Stone & so many more people playing people from those famous films! See if you can pick out who's playing who & that's the fun of it! And the scenes have been re-created so exact, it's eerie! Sometimes you forget you're NOT watching The Godfather until you see white-haired Lloyd Bridges in that dark 'business office' of his naming people & events that are non-existent! See it for laughs! (Ladies, see Louis Mandylor as the middle-aged Vincenzo! That's what caught MY eye!)