Greedy is an adorable and totally '90s dysfunctional family comedy. Nowadays, those types of movies are either too quirky to be funny or too dramatic to be considered comedies. Gone are the nineties, the golden age of modern cinema! Thankfully, there are rentals, so you can rent wonderful flicks like My Cousin Vinny and Greedy-both directed by Jonathan Lynn-and remember the wonderful decade.In the story, Kirk Douglas is the elderly and extremely wealthy patriarch of a pretty heartless family, including Ed Begley Jr., Phil Hartman, Bob Balaban, Mary Ellen Trainor, and Siobhan Fallon. No one likes each other, or him, but they're all sucking up to him in hopes that they'll be remembered in his will. In comes a distant relative with ulterior motives, Michael J. Fox, and a nurse who spends more time in a bikini than actually caretaking, Olivia d'Abo, and the family gets even more greedy and impatient! Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel's script is quick and hilarious, like two hours of verbal slapstick. Everyone feeds off each other brilliantly, and it's a laugh-a-minute as you watch the family tear each other apart. Light-hearted and silly, it's perfect for an afternoon movie day with your siblings-if you get along-or even a fun date night if you and your sweetie pie like comedies! Give the trailer a watch; if you're laughing in the two minutes, you'll love the full two hours.

A comedy filled with entertaining characters, Greedy fails to be a successful film due to a tedious plot.Dirty old selfish Joe is rich and his snivelling greedy relatives want his money, so far, so funny. However, the structure of Greedy is badly done. The film starts with one of Joe's greedy relatives, Carl and his family. It is a mistake to make us side and sympathise with them, if ultimately they are not important or developed. Worried they are going to lose out on their inheritance to sexy young nurse Molly, the bickering relatives call in long-lost nephew Danny, Uncle Joe's favourite. Although Michael J Fox is a welcome addition to any film, and his energy, wit and compassion make him a watchable lead, he is introduced too late to be this lead. Danny either isn't needed in this plot of greedy relatives versus evil old man, or it should start with and focus entirely on him. It is very difficult to care about his failed professional bowling career, as it is boring, and the sappy music that follows Danny and girlfriend Robin around is far too overdone.While child-Danny and Michael J Fox-Danny's impressions of Jimmy Durante are impressive, the need to show the audience who they are doing impressions of by starting the film with a lengthy clip of Jimmy Durante from Two Girls And A Sailor makes for a slow beginning that has little to do with the film.Molly is a badly written character. She knows Joe is perving on her, but she likes the lifestyle he provides and eventually she nearly sleeps with him for money, and yet she isn't supposed to be that sort of girl. Well, she clearly is. Also Olivia d'Abo is apparently English so it is confusing that her English accent is one of the fakest I have ever heard. Exactly what part of England is she from?The plot plays out pretty obviously, excluding Joe's insanely over the top ploy to discover who loves him, with bad people getting nothing and good people being rewarded, but it is the despicable Joe who has ruined his family's lives. Without him, they would never have become the people they are, so to see them end up with nothing, while he is still rich isn't satisfactory at all.Amusing characters suffer an irritatingly twisty plot, dominated by a detestable patriarch and are buried under too much moral for this film to be as funny as it wants to be. It should have stuck with the idea of relatives who will do anything for their inheritance and dumped the morals of Danny and manipulation of Joe, which just hinder the laughs.

from the comments I saw here, I thought I was about to see one of those rare, forgotten comedic gems, the cast definitely offered hope. However, this was disappointing, there were a couple of good one-liners but this was more a drama than a comedy and a drama that seemed to drag and drag.Apart from Fox and Douglas, everyone else was one-dimensional and seemed to be saying the same stuff over and over again. There was real scope here for a wittier script, instead it all got rather tedious, 30 minutes could easily have been lopped off the running time.At least it was good to see actors like Douglas, Fox and Hartmann in their prime, its sad to see what has happened to that trio now.

I suppose saying that the end of this movie is great gives something away. Then again you don't know what that is so maybe not.The plot of this film has Kirk Douglas dying as all of his relatives try to curry favor and get left his fortune. When every trick in the book fails they call in Michael J Fox as his long lost favorite nephew. Fox is now a down on his luck pro-bowler desperate for the cash the family promises him.Some of what follows is sit-com material, some is highly inspired. The good part of it is that almost all of it is funny.Certainly the film as a whole is not the best thing down the pike, but it has its moments, all of which make this film worth seeing.