the audience applauded

Best movie ever!

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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

So I ordered an XL Pizza & 35 Boneless Wings Plain Hs / Os Pizza Cut In Squares I got no Hott Sauce ots and no Blue Cheese At All.. And My Pizza Was Not City In Squares, But The Food Was Delicious. Just wish they would not have Forgotten my hot Sauce or my Blue Cheese....

This movie got panned by the critics, but we saw it anyway. No, it's not some sidesplitting classic, it is only a mild comedy...as it was meant to be.Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo are dimwitted mob lackeys looked down upon by all the others. DeVito has to do things such as start one mobster's car which might contain a bomb in it-and there is a funny sequence when he looks around 360 degrees and everyone around is running away. But the lackeys do have higher ambitions, so when they are ordered to place a $250,000 bet at a racetrack expecting it to be lost anyway, they put it on a different horse, hoping to win-and not knowing the race had been fixed previously. Both are in trouble with their bosses for this, of course-but what irks the bosses worse is that the lackeys are more loyal to each other than to them, so that each is given a contract to kill the other.But instead, they decide to steal one boss's prized antique Cadillac and escape to Atlantic City, deliberately ruining it, as one lackey has a mobster uncle who might rescue them. Once there, DeVito decides he can still defy his bosses, as he is now far away from their base of operations.Indeed, DeVito gives an enthusiastic performance while Piscopo draws a blank. You actually root for the lackeys to possibly defeat their overlords-can they do it? The story's fast pace helps keep it going.

"Wise Guys" is about as much fun as getting teeth pulled. This was probably the worst DePalma film I have seen...and I've seen "Raising Cain". Devito is so over the top & annoying that I actually wanted him to get killed half way into the movie. Also, how many movies did you see Joe Piscopo in after this? Yeah, he's that bad! Not even Captain Lou or Harvey Keitel could save this one. "Wise Guys" is a truly unfunny film that exceeds in getting crappier with every scene. Worth a look for DePalma fans, if only to say you've seen it. I've seen worse films, but this is pretty bad considering the filmmaker. When will Hollywood realize that mobsters and comedy don't mix?

I've just caught it on TCM and can't wait the 5 weeks till it comes out on DVD. This is a gangster spoof at its best, full of lovable characters well played by top actors of the mob genre. Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo make a great loser couple, Dan Hedaya stars as the dreary mob boss, whose henchmen include Frank Vincent and hilarious Lou Albano that steals every scene he's in. We even get to see Harvey Keitel in a classy supporting role! The plot is simple and has been done before and after, but rarely with such charm and lightness. With a current rating of 5.2, it's a severely underrated gangster comedy able to deliver entertaining evening for every fan of the genre.