Life Stinks (1991)
19 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 3 Rotten:13 Average Rating: 3.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Synopsis:
LIFE STINKS is the very funny, at times touching, and pointed commentary on greed, deceit, and human dignity. Director Mel Brooks stars as Goddard Bolt, a billionaire developer who is challenged by business rival Vance Crasswell (Jeffrey Tambor) to live on the streets without money for one... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Howard Morris
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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.
02/15/07 09:29 AM
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02/09/06 03:16 AM
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.
07/14/04 03:38 PM
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05/20/03 05:16 PM
Top Critic 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.
02/13/03 03:59 PM
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01/01/00 12:00 AM
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01/01/00 12:00 AM
Top Critic About 90% of the jokes elicit blank, polite stares, not laughs. The film is as raggedy and forlorn as its hero.
01/01/00 12:00 AM
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