The return of (Chevy Chase)? Well, not the best return ever. The thing is he looks so old, his comedy isn't that fresh, but the man managed to be that desperate middle-class dreamer who wants to have a lavish vacation. I wanted him to do the thing that every usual middle-class man dreams of : saying No to his boss, being the hero of his life. But no such luck. They just gave him the opportunity to lie, hustle, be an outlaw and live endless boldly sexual – all fake – positions along with his lavish vacation. All in all it was empty return and not that hilarious.It's one farcical night, not great though. While I loved taking place in one night, and a character like the annoying stand-up comedian/part time taxi driver, I just hated that all the laughs were sexual and nothing else; so I felt ridiculousness or rather easiness. And when it continued to the end I was bored and sick. Some movie makers think that the best thing to make the bourgeoisie laugh is by giving them sex jokes, as if that is Everything You Always Wanted to Talk About But Were Afraid to ! These ones did it with abundance. Fairly some moments were clever, but not that many.Casting (Armand Assante) in a comedy was tempting factor. But eventually I was hoaxed, because he was exploited in non-creative way. (Assante) comes from many movies where he played scary evil men, even scary good men ! In this movie that wasn't used to produce laughs, the material given to him was one-note and low, and his performance was weak (in many scenes he seemed drunk to me !). I hated that the wife does nothing but to drink. Further, some sexual jokes were so ugly (kissing the statues!). Simply as a movie based on funny characters and misunderstanding, it didn't reach to the max. Although the pace is good, but in the same time you may feel the weariness due to the absence of real events, outrageous twists, or anything else jokes about penis, erection, being homosexual,…etc !Unlike many reviews, I see that it worked. But just as a light, very light, movie. Or a feast for the ones who adore the sexual jokes!

I wasted 97 minutes of my life watching this crap. I only watched it because I am auditioning for the play at my local amateur theater. I am now truly re-considering going to the audition! This film was simply unfunny, not 1 laugh was had by me. I reckon Chevy Chase and all other cast members would want to remove this film from their resume. I think this carries the tradition of stage plays not transferring to film. Shame, it had a good cast on paper. Now I worry that if the movie is this unfunny that the play may also be unfunny. I se that the original author, Ray Cooney, was also a producer for the movie. He must have so many regrets now!

"Funny Money" is trying to be a slapstick farce, that style of comedy based on misunderstandings and incredible coincidences that put the characters into increasingly ridiculous predicaments as the story progresses. Farcical films are usually based on farcical plays. This kind of comedy is really, really difficult to pull off on the stage, and near impossible to get right on film. Blake Edwards got it about right in films like "A Shot in the Dark" and Peter Bogdonavich's adaptation of "Noises Off" wasn't bad. But the list of farce films that work is very short. Not only must the writing and performances be 100% right on the money, as they do on the stage, but the visual pacing, shooting style and editing also have to be 100% right. If any one of those things is off, the film goes on another list--the "totally sucks" list. And this film,"Funny Money," also based upon a stage play, has to be at the top of that totally sucks list. It fails on every count imaginable and is one of the most painful attempts at this kind of humor I've ever sat through. I'd like to say that a better, more experienced filmmaker could have made this better, but I have suspicions that the original play it was based upon sucked as well (based upon the incredible depths of suckage this thing reaches).

I was happy to see some new material from Chevy; I know that originality is almost abstract thing in 2008. but still, what is offered here is more then insulting to anyone.Every single idea and solution that carries this silly story is not only overstretched from every single corner possible; but gone completely out of the roof with idiotism of the worst kind.Did studio had some spare rolls of film on their hands? This story would fit more as a play, particularly when you consider that almost entire movie takes place in one single room! I doubt even a change of the scene would be necessary because such miserable results are found here.Nothing is funny here. Everyone from the otherwise charming casting (with unbearable euphoria)is trying to support this idiocy - but nothing, I mean nothing could help this story. How and Why was Chevy even involved with this, save alone how would anyone even sleep at night knowing that people would watch this as finished results... is beyond my grasp! This movie (did I just say movie?) is not even bad, this movie does not exist.