Life Stinks
1991, Comedy, 1h 35m
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Goddard Bolt
Molly
Vance Crasswell
Pritchard
Sailor
J. Paul Getty
Critic Reviews for Life Stinks
All Critics (17) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (14)
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January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
It may take more skill and intelligence to live without money than to make and spend a great deal of it, and that is the buried message of Life Stinks, a warmhearted new comedy from Mel Brooks.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
Lurches from a shocking reality into sentimentality and then to a finale in which it only takes a fairy Goddard to wave his lovely dollar wand and all the derelicts and poor of Los Angeles can live happily ever after in low-cost housing.
July 19, 2018 | Full Review… -
Even comic geniuses are allowed an off-day -- or off-movie, as the case may be -- and Mel Brooks strikes out with this sizable flop.
August 8, 2015 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review… -
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 | Rating: C- | Full Review… -
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January 14, 2005 | Rating: 1/5
Audience Reviews for Life Stinks
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Apr 07, 2018Brooks' heart is in the right place here and while the movie definitely has problems I think it is better than its reputation. Honestly I prefer Brooks trying something new rather than just making another spoof.Alec B Super Reviewer
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Dec 22, 2017An underrated Mel Brooks comedy that benefits from funny situations and great performances (especially Brooks and Warren, who steals the show every time she appears), disappointing only for coming up with a silly and implausible conclusion for the character's problems.Carlos M Super Reviewer
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May 23, 2013Heck! This MOVIE stinks! Not funny in the least.Christian C Super Reviewer
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Feb 03, 2010If 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 he owns only half the land needed for the construction, the other half belonging to equally ruthless billionaire Vance Craswell (Jeffrey Tambor), who has his own ideas for the land. The two try to buy each other out until, finally, a deal is struck: Craswell bets that Bolt cannot survive a month on the streets as a homeless man. If Bolt makes it, he gets the property. If he doesn't, Craswell gets it. Bolt agrees and, as a poor man, he begins to feel the pain of being uprooted and alone, even meeting a friendly homeless woman, Molly (Lesley Ann Warren) with whom he forms an attachment.Martin D Super Reviewer
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