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Life Stinks (1991)

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If a comedy is to be made from the plight of the homeless, who have to scrape through their days returning deposit bottles and cleaning car windshields to get their daily bread as the rich get richer and more heartless, it may as well be Mel Brooks' Life Stinks. The trademark Brooks humor dominates this fable about a ruthless billionaire, Goddard Bolt (Mel Brooks), who wants to obliterate a poor section of Los Angeles and build a high-tech commercial center in its place. His only problem is that

PG-13, 1 hr. 33 min.

Comedy

Rudy DeLuca

Feb 18, 2003

MGM

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All Critics (20) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (13) | DVD (7)

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.

February 15, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Lesser Mel Brooks has some funny bits if homelessness is funny at all

October 19, 2004 Comment

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.

July 14, 2004 Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | Comment
Hollywood Report Card

So pretty much does this Brooks misfire.

August 14, 2003 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

It's reassuring to know that even comic geniuses have their off days.... Makes us all feel more secure.

February 13, 2003 Comment
Movie Metropolis

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.

February 13, 2003 Comment
Movie Metropolis

Good message, bad comedy.

February 5, 2003 Comment
Juicy Cerebellum

About 90% of the jokes elicit blank, polite stares, not laughs. The film is as raggedy and forlorn as its hero.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
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A fun film with typical Mel Brooks comedy.

September 30, 2009
SirPant

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Yeah life sucks so does this movie except for a few scenes

December 13, 2008
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