Very disappointed :(

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

In 1935, pet shop owner Johnny Kelly (Michael Keaton) catches a boy stealing a puppy. He tells the boy a story to discourage stealing. In Lower East Side of NYC, Ma Kelly (Maureen Stapleton) needs an operation and Johnny starts working for criminal Jocko Dundee (Peter Boyle). The Dundee gang is at war with Roman Moronie. He hides his criminal activities and his alter ego Johnny Dangerously from his Ma and younger brother Tommy (Griffin Dunne). They're the only two who doesn't know. Tommy wants to drop out of law school. He wants to get laid. Johnny is taken with new showgirl from Pittsburg Lil Sheridan (Marilu Henner). Johnny's unstable old rival Danny Vermin (Joe Piscopo) joins Dundee's gang.I think this is trying to be Mel Brooks but it is missing the delivery. The first obvious problem is the 15 minute stretch where Johnny is a kid and there isn't a comedian in sight. The movie stalls before it gets rolling. Keaton tries his darnest. Piscopo does a good job and gets a few chuckles. There are gags and wordplay. It's written well but the end result is very few true laughs. It's gag after gag in this parody but few of it hits.

This prosaic piece of satiric trash spoofing 30s gangster film doesn't have enough humor in it to sustain a five minute TV skit. The actors are either over the top (Joe Piscopo, Dom Delouise) or flat and lifeless (Michael Keaton, Maureen Stapleton) as they waste their time and display none in this force fed bore.Johnny's (Michael Keaton) hypochondriac mom needs an operation on a regular basis so he throws in with Jocko Dundee on a caper to earn the money. He excels and earns a reputation as a man to be feared while Johnny's greatest is that his mother will find out. Dundee's rival Danny Vermin (Piscopo) sets up Johnny who is then prosecuted by his brother the DA. Will Johnny fry ? Perhaps, but it's director Ammy Heckerling and her writers that need to be executed since there's a complete lack of it in this bites it satire.Heckerling has made a career out of fair (Fast Time at Ridgemont High, Clueless ) to mediocre (European Vacation) to beyond dreadful (Night at the Roxbury) comedies as well as waste time with baby talk ( Look Whose Talking saga) but Johnny Dangerously may be arguably her worst. The satiric intent is strained at best and the jokes themselves sophomoric and poorly timed. Griffin Dunne looks and acts like he won the lead in a contest while the rest of the cast of old pros,( Boyle, Stapleton and Ray Walston ) play it broad and for a paycheck. Piscopo as Vermin has a few funny moments before he begins to chew too loudly but by then Heckerlings hackery has already fractured the films funny bone.

Oh, what fun there is here! Amy Heckerling has a flair for directing comedy (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who's Talking) but here it looks like she told the actors to go out and have fun. Micheal Keaton breezes through the role of Johnny, easily his best screen performance. Joe Piscopo is great as the appropriately named Danny Vermin, what a shame directors didn't pick up on this. And I have even mentioned Richard Dimitri playing Moronie and the character's unique vocabulary. I don't think it's an accident that the bulk of the character's name is spelled MORON.Good lines are sprinkled throughout the movie, with Peter Boyle, Griffit Dunne.Maurren Stapleton, Merilu Henner given good lines. Even actors with minor roles like Dick Butkus and Alan Hale get in a good lines.recommend it to a friend.

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.