Strong and Moving!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

OSCAR is one of Sylvester Stallone's regretful forays into comedy. The action star himself isn't really as fault, as he tries very hard with the deadpanning, and John Landis's direction remains brisk and efficient. It's the the fact that the screenplay simply isn't very funny and all of the gangster characters are too similar to stand out. They end up blending into one which doesn't make for a very eventful movie. What this film does have is a fantastic cast, which is a speciality of Landis's. Tim Curry has a fine extended cameo as a speech therapist while a youthful Marisa Tomei is gorgeous and funny as Stallone's daughter. There are also plenty of smaller roles for the likes of Kurtwood Smith, Martin Ferrero and Yvonne De Carlo to help make the experience a little more bearable.

I say that if you like comedies, this is a MUST see movie. This is, no contest, Sly's best movie. This is one of the all-time best movies. I've been watching his shows since the first Rocky came out and I love his ass kicking flicks but this is better. This has some of the best beauties caught on film, great music, an outstanding cast, AND you will laugh yourself legit. You know, until some bankers scare you crooked again. Obviously, I find this to be watchable yearly.

"She has excellent diphthongs." "Yeah, that's what got her into trouble in the first place!" (To roughly paraphrase.) If you like that kind of comedy, you will love this film.The guy on stage falling over the chair, is always a hoot no matter how many times you see it or have seen it, or anticipate the fall happening. Black bag switcheroo that may contain $50,000 worth of Jewels, or $50,000 cash, or $10 worth of laundry is just a hoot, never mind the obvious factor that each bag would be noticeable by weight. Reality you should want to never interfere with comedy! Somehow, Mob Accountant--Anthony Rossano/Vincent Spano-- stealing $1000,000 from his mob boss (Anthony Provolone/Sylvester Stallone--pronounced Provolon, and incorrectly pronounced by speech coach Dr. Pool/Tim Curry--as the Italian {Provolonay}) and wanting to marry the Mob Bosses daughter, Lisa Provolone/Marissa Tomei, who falsely bruits it about that she is pregnant by said accountant... Well as it is said--What can possibly go wrong? Don Ameche and Kirk Douglas, stalwarts from another film era play important roles.Not only are bags mistaken, so are chickens mistaken for guns--don't ask. Innocuous Italian tailors mistaken as ruthless hit men who boast of the excellent work and highly praised work of mob boss Brazini (?)but actually praising the suit they made and was wearing when he was knifed in the back while dining in a restaurant, with photo from newspaper for proof. And somehow another Provolone daughter, Theresa/Elizabeth Barondes, shows up saying falsely that she is Provolone's daughter cause that was the first name she could think of not realizing he was a mobster, but in reality, Provolone and a long lost maid once joined in conjugal bliss and lo and behold... Well see the movie to learn who is actually marrying whom...Comedy works because nobody stops to inject a dose of reality. Those bags would weigh differently, and it would be noticeable. The Italian mob henchman wearing spats? Italians as cliché mobsters right out of "The Untouchable" (Vendetti ?)TV series of the late fifties. How many weapons can a mobster carry hidden in his suit coat? But the trick is to do all of this shtick with a straight face. And the actors pull off a brilliant piece of comedy straight faced, along with impeccable timing. I saw this charming and hilarious movie when it came out in 1991, and it still is excellent and worth watching. And now available on YouTube.

It's the depression era and 4 million are out of work. Chicago gangster Angelo "Snaps" Provolone (Sylvester Stallone) promises his father on his death bed to go straight. A month later, he's looking to put his money into the banks who are desperate for his cash. His young accountant Anthony Rossano wants a big raise to marry Teresa. Teresa told Anthony that she's Snaps' daughter and Snaps thinks Anthony is talking about his spoiled daughter Lisa (Marisa Tomei). Anthony had kept almost $50k of Snaps' money and offers the jewels he bought with the money in exchange for his daughter. Then Lisa lies to her father that she got pregnant by their former chauffeur Oscar. She wants to escape her over-protective father. Snaps is eager to marry her off. There is a long-running misunderstanding between Snaps and Anthony. Also speech therapist Dr. Thornton Poole (Tim Curry) is secretly in love with Lisa. Police led by Lt. Toomey is sure that Snaps is working on a large illegal deal.This movie tired me out. It's one of those old fashion screwball comedies where there are a ton of misunderstandings and a bag of jewels that keeps going to the wrong person. The problem is that the movie is relying on the miscommunications to be funny all on their face value. Isn't it funny that Snaps and Anthony don't understand each other? For me, a comedy needs more than misunderstandings. It needs real comedians with real comic timing. Sly is yelling a lot and his anger is suppose to be funny. Vincent Spano is even less funny although it may be his annoying character. At least, Marisa Tomei tries to be wacky but she's also rather annoying. I watched this a long time ago and I watched it again recently. Both times, the movie gave me a headache and that's the last of Oscar for me.