Life Stinks (1991)
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Howard Morris
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 18, 2003
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1. Mel Brooks - Director, Rudy DeLuca - Screenwriter, Steve Haberman - Screenwriter
- Featurette - 1. DOES LIFE REALLY STINK?
- Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews
A slapstick vaudeville about the poor and homeless? Inadvertently Mel Brooks gives the dangerous impression that homelessness is cute and that Downtown LA is filled with adorable and eccentric people who "just happen" to be roofless.
The slapstick here is nothing to rent the film over. Oddly, it's the serious moments that charm. I was embarrassed to myself for being choked up by Mel Brooks.
This was supposed to be Brooks's comical stab at social injustice, a kind of My Man Godfrey for the nineties, but it doesn't work.
About 90% of the jokes elicit blank, polite stares, not laughs. The film is as raggedy and forlorn as its hero.
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by: Sam the man 5/5/02


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