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The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Funny silly comedy but I love it. It's just fun. Joe Pesci is hilarious. Who knew he could be funny. Usually tough guy roles well except for Home Alone.

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.

While this is what it is, gags galore, low-brow, and funny stuff, Easy Money never quite hits the best of Dangerfield.Too many gaps between the one liners and some situations are just fillers, but otherwise all in all watchable and enjoyable.The plot is a good one, very very rich mother-in-law dies leaving all her money to the booze hound Dangerfield on the condition he straightens and flies right for a whole year. I just wish they could have got to the main plot sooner.Kind of like Brewster's Millions there are chuckles to be had, and anyway it's Rodney so you know what you're getting.All in all, an OK pizza and beer movie; nothing challenging, but nothing side-splitting either...

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.