Jane Austen's Mafia! Movie
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TAGLINES
See It Early. Avoid the mob.
Hits happen.
From One of the Goodfellas that brought you the Naked Gun
If you like Oscar winning drama and touching romance and you've got an hour and a half to kill This Summer Prepared to get Whacked
The Comedy You Can't Refuse
An Epic Saga Of Disorganized Crime
Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see. In a donkey's, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?
| Jay Mohr | Anthony 'Tony' Cortino |
| Billy Burke | Joey Cortino |
| Christina Applegate | Diane Steen |
| Pamela Gidley | Pepper Gianini |
| Olympia Dukakis | Sophia |
| Lloyd Bridges | Vincenzo Cortino |
| Jason Fuchs | Young Vincenzo Cortino |
| Joe Viterelli | Dominick Clamato |
| Tony Lo Bianco | Cesar Marzoni |
| Blake Hammond | Fatso Paulie Orsatti |
| Philip Suriano | Frankie Totino |
| Vincent Pastore | Gorgoni |
| Marisol Nichols | Carla |
| Carol Ann Susi | Clamato's Wife |
| Gregory Sierra | Bonifacio |
| Jim Abrahams |
4.70 out of 10 (4499 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Don't see it until you've seen Godfather and Casino!
posted on 01 Jul 2009Unless you've at least seen The Godfather and Casino, then this movie will mean very little to you. To me it meant alot! It was soooooooooooo funny to see the take-off of the beginning scene in Casino, a scene that left me pretty drained in the real thing, but just left me giggling inanely in Mafia!Apart from the vomiting scene (which was just a little bit ridiculous) Mafia! never missed a mark with me. I noticed that at points the music resembled Ennio Morricone's score for Once Upon A Time In America, and there were a couple of subtle (if that's the word that could go with this film!) references to Goodfellas that I thought worked very well.The director is obviously a Scorsese fan. Much of the soundtrack came from Mean Streets, Casino and Goodfellas, and this was a really good touch.All in all, I can see where the bad reviews came from. This is a movie for big fans of gangster movies, not your average cinema-goer. I however, loved it!
Kudos For Godfather Spoof
posted on 29 May 2009Here's a very funny spoof on The Godfather story. This is a Leslie Nielsen-type silly parody, except the late Lloyd Bridges played the lead role instead Nielson.Actually Jay Mohr was more of the lead actor in here, narrating the film and taking Al Pacino's Godfather role while Christina Applegate took Diane Keaton's character. There are a number of laugh-out-loud lines in this movie and a number of overdone slapstick scenes. As with any comedy in which the material comes at you at a rapid pace (see the Marx Brothers films from 70 years ago to see some of the origins of comedic mayhem), you get a lot funny and not-so-funny. They come at you so fast you can hardly keep up. I found that there were a lot of funny lines written on background buildings, street signs, etc. on this film. You almost have to freeze-frame some scenes to "read" all the jokes, much less hear them.This movie did do something that Hollywood films rarely have done: poke fun at a Democrat. Usually, the cheap shots are reserved for Republcians (Nixon, Gingrich, Reagan, Bush, etc) but here we have the famous "But I never had sex with that woman!" line delivered in a obvious reference. Well, good for them. About time the Liberals were recipients of a cheap shot or two. It only happens about once every 25 years in films. So, I give this film points for being "fair and balanced."Also points should be awarded for having several actors from the actual Godfather films make appearances here, too. The film was dedicated "in loving memory" to Bridges, so I assume this was his last movie. Well, he certainly went out with a laugh.
Surprisingly Dull
posted on 23 Apr 2009I saw the trailer to this film while watching another video, and the shot of Jay Mohr pathetically diving into a swimming pool while he's supposed to be sexy and suave had me and my girlfriend literally in tears laughing. We rented the movie the next night and then sat waiting and waiting and waiting for the laughs to kick in as with "Airplane" or "Naked Gun" but they just were not there! The opening credits were somewhat funny, but after that, zero. Not even the previously mentioned diving scene managed to spark a laugh as by that point we'd felt as though we'd been had. And if memory serves well, there were many shots of the elegant and classy Olympia Dukakis farting. I was embarrassed for her.I heard the talented and very funny Jay Mohr on the radio sometime in 2000 and the DJ asked him about this film, insinuating that it was less than wonderful, and all Jay could say was, "Funniest script I ever read -- period". With that cast and that sentiment, it makes you wonder what went wrong. One commenter here mentioned that the film seemed to take itself seriously at times and I recall that to be the case too -- perhaps they just couldn't decide what it was. Too bad, it could have been very funny.
fun spoof of the godfather movies!!
posted on 28 Feb 2009This movie is a spoof of the Godfather movies. It is a cute, very funny spoof of the Godfather saga. This movie is from the same people who gave the world "Hot Shots" and the "Airplane " movies. Even if do not like the stars, you will still get quite a good laugh of this spoof!!!!!It has a lot going for it in such a short time!!
is it over yet?
posted on 25 Feb 2009Next to "Spy Hard", this was the stupidest spoof movie I have seen in a long time. I miss the days of watching a comedy that is actually funny. To this day, Ace Ventura, The Naked Gun, and Hot Shots have failed to amuse me. I beg Hollywood to stop making spoofs that are nothing but the same spoofs made from other spoofs that had already been remade ten times. I paid $1 and I deeply regret it.
Mama Mia! Let's Laugh!
posted on 06 Dec 2008I stumbled upon this movie a couple weeks ago & thought it was so funny! You have to be mafia-conscious to know what's going on & what films these spoofs are taken from in order to get the gist. The Godfather films, Casino, Goodfellas (even Jurassic Park & Forrest Gump are thrown in as a bit of a surprise!) There's a 'Ginger-type' girl from Casino paroding Sharon Stone & so many more people playing people from those famous films! See if you can pick out who's playing who & that's the fun of it! And the scenes have been re-created so exact, it's eerie! Sometimes you forget you're NOT watching The Godfather until you see white-haired Lloyd Bridges in that dark 'business office' of his naming people & events that are non-existent! See it for laughs! (Ladies, see Louis Mandylor as the middle-aged Vincenzo! That's what caught MY eye!)
I Can Refuse It...And I Will.
posted on 19 Oct 2008In the tradition of the "Hot Shots!" and the "Airplane!" movies, this is a spoof of mobster movies, "The Godfather" and "Casino" in particular; Anthony Cortino (Jay Mohr) is selected by his clumsy father Vincenzo (Lloyd Bridges) to take over the family business.I'm very sorry to say that I was disappointed with this movie. Usually, I enjoy this kind of material, but I did not laugh often enough this time.
The movie is rather flat throughout; sure, there are some good laughs, but overall the movie fails to provide even acceptable entertainment.And I'd swear, the movie almost seems to be taking itself SERIOUSLY at times (in some of the flashback scenes)! What a bad move!Cast is OK but nobody can match the success that Lloyd Bridges has with Vincenzo. He'd already proven himself adept at this kind of material and he, at least, doesn't disappoint. I just wish he could have had a better swan song than this. He'll be sorely missed.I give it four out of ten (and that's after a little generosity on my part).I hope if co-writer / director Jim Abrahams makes another movie soon, that it's better than "Jane Austen's Mafia!" (Probably one of the funniest things about the movie is that title.)
Filled with Negative Italian American Stereotypes
posted on 09 Jun 2008This movie was offensive to Italians and Italian-Americans everywhere, using stereotypes in a cheap attempt at lowbrow humor. At least a show like The Sopranos (which trades in the same negative stereotyping) attempts to make social commentary about the human condition. This movie is not smart, not funny, and not classy.Clearly, all ethnic groups are stereotyped in the popular media. It's an unfortunate fact of life in Hollywood that writers use easy stereotypes as a way to quickly tell a story.The fact is that FBI statistics show that less than 1/10 of 1 percent of the approximately 25 million Italian-Americans in this country are involved in organized crime. These statistics also show that Italian-Americans are one of the least-arrested ethnic groups in this country for any sort of crime. Yet, the mafia and criminal stereotype of Italians still thrives.Respected columnist Jack Newfield once wrote that, "Prejudice against Italian-Americans is the most tolerated intolerance... (There is a) long tradition of Italian bashing." And Hollywood screenwriter and Broadway playwright John Patrick Shanley said in a Time Magazine interview that Italian-Americans "are the last ethnic group America can comfortably mock." Please don't waste your time with this movies.
Not great
posted on 04 May 2008Jim Abrahams has written several of my favorite fast-paced comedies, like "Hot Shots" and "The Naked Gun", and of course my favorite "Airplane!". This was the first movie that i felt it was obvious he was losing his touch. The comedy is not as fast-paced here as it was before, nor is it as spot-on. Spoofing the "Godfather"-movies shouldn't be very hard really. Those movies are as potentially silly as great movies always are, walking the thin line that greatness is.The problem here is that i think they missed so many things that could have been spoofed, and they included some things that didn't need spoofing. The best part of the movie in my opinion is the one with the young Cortino coming to America. The more contemporary parts are less funny and more silly. Mostly i find it to be a lack in the script department as both Lloyd Bridges and Jay Mohr are pretty suitable for their parts.In the end this is about 50 percent embarrassing and 50 percent funny, much like many of Leslie Nielsens later movies. It's far from "Hot Shots" and "Naked Gun" but then again such comedy is not what it was.
Funny and Entertaining
posted on 22 Apr 2008I thought Mafia! was a good funny comedy, However I thought they showed too much of the movie in the previews like other movies, but I still thought Jay Mohr was good and very funny, so I can't complain.I can easily see why he is getting so much work because he is a very talented and funny actor.
Funny, despite obligatory flatulence.
posted on 10 Apr 2008MAFIA!RATING: *** (OUT OF ****)An Airplane!-style take on the Godfather movies, Mafia! is funny, despite the obligatory fart jokes that were sometimes overused for cheap laughs (c'mon guys, fart jokes went out in 1993). My favorite bits are the tree getting shot and falling over, the casino games ("You Absolutely Can't Win"), the "Don Quixote" joke at the funeral, the pool scene where Jay Mohr dives onto his stomach, and more. There are enough jokes here to take up several movies, and while many of them don't work, enough of them do to make for an enjoyable time.
Better than I expected.
posted on 20 Mar 2008Obviously you can't expect much from a parody of the Godfather, but this had a surprising amount of good sight gags and jokes. Most of the parodies fit it well and the characters even managed to be somewhat likable."Mafia" is mainly a parody of the Godfather. It's about Vincenzo Cortini (Lloyd Bridges in his final role) and how he grew up to be the Godfather. The scenes of him as a kid were surprisingly sweet, and worked very well, even with the sex and drug jokes thrown in. The writing is pretty good for a spoof film, too. The film itself looks really good, with some authentic looking Italian sets. I disliked the "Where are they now?" at the end, but other than that, this was a pretty decent parody.My rating: ** 1/2 out of ****. 80 mins. PG-13 for drug, sex, crude jokes.
Enjoyable enough.
posted on 03 Dec 2007The 4.7 rating here on IMDb makes it look like this movie is dull, unfunny and just stupid. This is not the case, I can guarantee that you'll not be bored while watching this and that some scene's will make you laugh out loud.Probably the best thing about "Jane Austen's Mafia!" is the visual atmosphere it knows to create. At times it really is the same as in "The Godfather" movies.Unfortunately there are more misses than hits in this movie. Some of the jokes don't really work and problem is that the movie takes itself too serious at times with as a result that it at times takes awhile before something funny happens again. But as a fan of gangster movies you'll have to appreciate some of the jokes and most certainly the atmosphere of the movie. Perhaps to fully appreciate this movie you'll first at least have to watch "The Godfather" trilogy. The scene in which Lloyd Bridges character dies while he's having a melon in his mouth is absolutely brilliant and hilarious. I haven't laughed that hard during a movie in ages.Also problem is that the story feels just like a lame excuse to spoof scene's from "The Godfather" movies. It feels very incoherent all and why they also decide to spoof "Forrest Gump" in this movie puzzles me to be honest. Pretty pointless and it seemed out of place.Still there is a lot to enjoy in this movie, especially for those who are familiar with the classic gangster movies.6/10
A worthless piece of rubbish that does not honor lloyd bridges very well
posted on 15 Nov 2007It has been an old tradition that many of comedians last films are stupid lame flops ( ex. Chris Farley in Almost Heroes, John Candy in Wagons East), but I never expected Lloyd Bridges to take that demise as well. He was great in Airpane and Hot Shots, but this movie is just simply one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I didn't even laugh once. I won't even mention the ridiculous Barney scene. This is not a very good year for comedies with terrible flops like Almost Heroes, Dirty Work, and Baseketball. But there still is hope with the Farelly bros. delivering another smash hit which is the best comedy since Austin Powers. So if you want to laugh your ass off then go see There's Something about Mary, or even rent some of Jim Abrams material that is much better like Airplane or the Naked Gun series.
Sidesplitting!
posted on 12 Nov 2007I really can't fathom people who complain about comedies having plot holes, unrealistic action or underdeveloped characters. They're probably the sort of people who go on Jamaican holidays and complain about the heat, or whine that children's funerals aren't funny. This movie consistently delivers sidesplitting belly laughs all the way through, and is right up there with the official ZAZ films. I wish humourless critics would just go off and write their term papers instead of wasting their time criticising what they don't understand. It was indeed a fitting tribute to Lloyd Bridges. Just see it!
Mildly amusing.
posted on 04 Sep 2007According to arbitrary statistics; over 90% of Americans don't know who Jane Austen is, which is why the name was dropped from the promotion of Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998). In other news, at least five quarters of all Popes found to be Catholic. Film at eleven.Directed and partially written by spoof veteran Jim Abrahams; Mafia! is to The Godfather (1972) as Hot Shots! (1991) is to Top Gun (1986), a merciless p*ss take. The competent yet lacklustre Jay Mohr stars as Tony Cortino, an amalgam of Casino (1995) De Niro and Godfather Pacino, along with Christina 'don't call me Bundy' Applegate ostensibly filling Diane Keaton's shoes. Elder performers Olympia Dukakis and Lloyd Bridges get to suitably degrade themselves, in the late Bridges' case, for the last time, with roles as senior Cortino family members.This being a spoof movie, large liberties are taken with the films it sends up. Probably the most successful instance comes in the form of a well executed imitation of the explosive Casino opening titles. Unfortunately, this of course comes right at the start of the film, and it's a peak not really matched in the following hour and a bit. The period switching device of The Godfather Part II (1974) is borrowed, allowing the freedom for some amusing asides, but badly breaking up the flow of the movie. The gags manage to keep up a reasonable pace, but often whither on the vine in the hands of performers unskilled in this brand of comedy. Mohr in particular would have served better with a more confident, energetic performance similar to the one he later would display in short lived, cult hit series Action (1999). Fans of the genre will notice some flatly recycled material and will probably miss the input of usual Abrahams collaborators the Zucker brothers.Though Scorsese's Casino receives plenty of attention, it's superior predecessor Goodfellas (1990) remains inexplicably untapped. Clearly a wasted opportunity as the faster pace and contemporary tone of Scorsese's films lend themselves to parody far more readily than the austere mob epics of Coppola. Grasping cribs from Forrest Gump (1994) and Jurassic Park (1993) suggest Abrahams was struggling for material to pad out the relatively modest eighty odd minute running time. The diminishing returns are finally retired with a successful finale mirroring that of the much maligned Godfather Part III (1990).Mafia! is a middling entry in a sub-genre that reached it's zenith with the sublime six half hours of Police Squad! (1982). Abrahams benefits greatly from his choice of such classic, strongly iconic films to make fun of. It's this that puts even the mediocre Mafia! way ahead of the facile ilk of Scary Movie (2000) and it's increasingly vulgar sequels. It's difficult to find humour in lampooning material that's already too lame to be taken seriously. Mafia! is a fairly safe bet to raise a chuckle or two from mob and spoof fans alike, but it's not up to the standard of either Hot Shots! instalment.
Mostly unfunny
posted on 20 Aug 2007I thought most of the jokes were recycled from previous efforts, and only a few of the new ones were worth putting in the final cut. But the cast gives it their all and they are mostly successful, but what was Olympia Dukakis supposed to be? The great talent of Jay Mohr could have been better utilized also.
Lighten Up and See the Movie
posted on 03 Aug 2009I thought Mafia! was full of belly laughs. Most of the jokes are true groaners, but heck, that's the beauty of a Jim Abrahams' film. There was almost too much to assimilate. Whenever I started to concentrate on the myriad of sight gags, I missed some of the funny one-liners (and vice-versa). Highbrow comedy it is not, but it deserved better from the critics. In addition, I felt it necessary to see Lloyd Bridges' final film. He was a good man.