Mad Money (2008)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 104
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 81
A laborious, unfunny and implausible heist film.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 26
A laborious, unfunny and implausible heist film.
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A woman who was used to the finer things in life is suddenly thrust back into the work force after her husband gets downsized in writer/director Callie Khouri's (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) American adaptation of the hit British comedy Hot Money. Faced with the prospect of losing her home as her debt begins to mount, posh housewife Bridget (Diane Keaton) accepts a job on the midnight cleaning crew at a local branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. When the growing temptation of the cash
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Queen Latifah
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Katie Holmes
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Ted Danson
Don Cardigan -
Stephen Root
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Christopher McDonald
Bryce Arbogast -
Adam Rothenberg
Bob Truman -
Roger R. Cross
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There's an old saying: 'I wrote you a long letter because I didn't have time to write a short one.' In the case of Mad Money, I'll write a short review because the movie won't sustain a long one. (It barely sustains itself.)
Top CriticIt's better than I expected it to be.
This movie is designed to be fun, and its intentions are signaled to us over and over again, as when the women jump around on a bed, giggling and flinging old, dirty money around in a wanton display of pure idiocy.
Speaking of recycling, this script by Glenn Gers reeks of it and not in a healthy, eco-minded way.
Moviegoers will come up empty.
It's not that much fun.
A madcap heist movie with a delectable cast who realise that while money can't buy happiness, it sure as hell can buy everything else.
Keaton, Latifah and Holmes have appealing chemistry, although it's not enough to sustain a too-long 104 minute running time.
If you're thinking that there's not much point in rooting for these ballsy babes all the way because in the end crime doesn't pay, think again, sorta. Because even after they're caught, the fun is really just beginning.
Provided you can get past its improbable premise, this madcap crime caper's trio of talented leading ladies manage to provide enough moments of mirth to make the rest of this raucous romp worthwhile.
[T]he gap between [Thelma & Louise] and Mad Money resembles the abyss that Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis drove into in Khouri's earlier hit.
Khouri parece ter deixado no passado qualquer interesse em criar personagens tridimensionais ou minimamente interessantes.
Comedy is difficult, but it seems like Mad Money didn't even try. It's very hard to find the jokes.
Keaton and Latifah lend enough intelligence, wit, and charm to their characters that Mad Money often feels like an ovarian Ocean's Eleven.
'Mad Money' really isn't worth yours.
den einai toso kaki oso tha se boleye gia na glitoseis ti moyrmoyra an brethei omofyli ton protagonistrion na se faei na to deite (prosferetai gia ypohoriseis diladi)
A few badly conceived scenes and misused actors cannot completely negate the positive message of this situation comedy. Diane Keaton deserves better, but lives to laugh another day.
Just when I thought there was no way a movie like this could possibly show me anything new, Money goes and makes Ivan Boesky out of Annie Hall, paints redemption green, and paves the road to heaven with gold. Color me surprised.
"Ocean's Eleven" if it were geared to the drones at the Oprah Winfrey book club...
The latest vibrato performance of Diane Keaton's late career shame has her playing once-wealthy housewife Bridget Cardigan, whose twee name and dithering hysteria are equally insufferable.
While being a serviceable, somewhat female-empowering bank-heist comedy, Mad Money doesn't do much else to distinguish itself.
[W]orks... as bright, cheery, satisfying fantasy, if a mere trifle of a passing fancy. And it works, too, as a celebration of female don't-ignore-us indignation...
Pretty much a painless exercise in mediocrity -- nothing more.
Save your money so you don't get mad that you spent it on this.
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