Comedy > Italian Comedy

Johnny Be Good

Advantages: amusing, clever storyline
Disadvantages: drug taking scenes, but funny enough to get away with it

...plays his love interest in Johnny Stecchino too?! This might have something to do with Nicoletta being Roberto’s real life wife. They met on the set of ‘Tu mi turbi’ (1983) and married in 1991. Well onto the story. Benigni plays Dante, a school bus driver who is a simple soul. He ferries handicapped kids around in his yellow vehicle, making their journeys fun by singing to them. Early on in the film we realise Dante is a flop with women, he’s their ...
...it. Maria names him Johnny Stecchino – Toothpick Johnny. Maria takes Dante to Palermo with her. There we are introduced to the real Johnny Stecchino, her husband the gangster, who just happens to be the very image of Dante. He’s living as a prisoner in his own home. He’s a supergrass and a villain and a man named Cozzamara is after him so he’s gone into hiding. Maria has a plan – to pass Dante off as her husband Johnny, so that when he’s seen in ...

kirstymack80 10.01.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Johnny Steccino (Subtitled) (Wide Screen) (DVD)

Great film!

Advantages: Highly amusing, sing along fun!
Disadvantages: None that i can find!

This is a film i can find no faults with! 10 viewings later i would still watch it again! Good plot- best friends who have seperated slightly and then one decides to get married. The female on some kind of wacky mission decided she can't take the way this is going and aims to split them up so she can have the guy that has always been there for herself. The horrendous new bride (who in person you would want to kill!) is hilariously funny and only ...

melanie262 07.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of My Best Friend's Wife (DVD)

(What) if God were one of us - It'd be quite amusing!

Advantages: The cast, its pretty funny, lives up to repeated viewings (for me anyway)
Disadvantages: If you don't like Jim Carrey in his comedy roles, your not going to enjoy this

...- Story - Bruce Nolan is a local TV reporter who wants to be a serious newsreader but ends up being asked to report on the most silly local news stories instead, which lead to him being made fun of. He resents this and although he has a job and has the love of a pretty girlfriend, Grace, he still feels hard done by and after a particularly frustrating days work, he shouts out to God in a fit of rage which leads to God getting in contact with him ...
...God himself. What will Bruce do with these powers and what does this teach him? how will Grace react to the newly empowered Bruce? you'll have to watch the movie to find out. - Thoughts & Opinions - Who hasn't seen this movie? to be honest, this is one of those movies that I feel like most everyone must have seen, at least in part, at some point in the last few years but incase you haven't, well, here's my review anyway, since I caught most of the ...

IzzyS 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Bruce Almighty (DVD)

Married with Children

Advantages: Superb indie film
Disadvantages: Little known

...Web and the absurdity of modern art also leek into the narrative point making, quipping that with the wonder of the internet and all its possibilities to bring us together, all we talk about is sex. Please don’t get me going on installation art! Summary: Americas middle belly. ...

thedevilinme 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Me And You And Everyone We Know (DVD)

Ohh Betty !!

Advantages: Wonderful Frank will make you smile
Disadvantages: Nothing

Some mothers do ave em – Series 3 Well, what can you say about Frank Spencer? A gentile man with a heart of gold but the competence of a 3 year old. Frank can’t get a job. His Mac and Beret are not helping. When he gets a job, which is extremely rarely, it never lasts more than a day. The people at the job centre run for cover or start popping pills or hiding in cupboards. His DIY always turns out to be either ...
...“ Ooh Betty” for some never defined reason sticks with him through it all. With the innocence of a child he meanders through life never quite figuring it all out, a bit like the rest of us really. Frank, Betty, their cat who always seemed to be doing a ‘Whoopsie’ and later their daughter Jessica lived in the most botched DIY house ever to grace the small screen. When Jessica is born near the end of the second series Frank becomes a little more ...

Maximus-Qualitus 27.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Complete Third Series (DVD)