film criticism by maryann johanson | celebrating 25 years: 1997–2022
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Really, not safe for anyone, anywhere, anytime. You’ve been warned. This is from the fine demented folks at Troma, so we may assume that the trailer does not offer us all the “best” scenes, and that much more carnage, mayhem, and bodily fluid will be, er, on … more…
Mob stories rarely work as comedy. For every Get Shorty or Analyze This we seem to get a dozen Mickey Blue Eyeses and Jane Austen’s Mafia!s. For the comedies to gell, it seems, the mafia milieu needs to bump up against another idiosyncratic subculture: Mob Meets Hollywood, Mob Meets Therapy. The Crew tries it on with Mob Meets Old Fart… if there could be said to be an ‘Old Fart’ subculture.
