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Johnny Dangerously (1984)

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This spoof of the 1930s and '40s crime stories ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime as it tells the story of Johnny Dangerously (Byron Thames as the young Johnny, Michael Keaton as the older), a devoted son to his ailing mother (Maureen Stapleton), so ill that she needs money for several operations. Johnny has nowhere to turn, and because gangsters tend to flourish in his neighborhood he goes to work for Dundee, a benevolent godfather-gangster type, in order to cover his mother's medical

PG-13, 1 hr. 30 min.

Drama, Comedy

Aug 27, 2002

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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All Critics (18) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (9) | DVD (7)

Keaton in starring role helps, but overall average laughs.

March 6, 2008 Comment
Video-Reviewmaster.com

Good spoof of The Roaring Twenties

August 13, 2005 Comment
Classic Film and Television

Sorta funny for a while, but it runs out of ammo long before it's over

October 2, 2003 Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

I know I shouldn't like this film, but dammit, it's just so gloriously exuberantly silly that there's no use condemning it.

April 14, 2003 Comment
Flipside Movie Emporium

A mob comedy that shoots only blanks.

March 30, 2003 Comment
KPBS.org

Everything about it is hilarious and has slipped into the ranks of pop culture legend.

September 24, 2002 Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com | Comment
Needcoffee.com

The jokes are largely silly, sometimes juvenile, and they come faster at the start of the movie than at the end.

September 18, 2002 Comment
Movie Metropolis

...the film doesn't just run out of laughs; it becomes positively leaden by the last half hour.

September 18, 2002 Comment
Movie Metropolis
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Audience Reviews for Johnny Dangerously

This pastiche of old school gangster films has a couple of funny moments, but spread over 90 minutes it soon wears out it's welcome.

May 20, 2007
garyX
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The Indian mobster was hilarious!

November 28, 2006
mjgildea

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