There are a lot great silly spoof movies out there. Johnny Dangerously isn't one of them. With names like Danny Devito, Weird Al, and Michael Keaton, I was expecting to at least laugh a few times but I found myself cringing more than anything. The jokes aren't over the top enough and the worst "jokes" repeat themselves to make the experience even worse. I find myself confused on the tone of this movie as parts of it seemed aimed towards adults and other parts exclusively for children under 10. If you think bad accents, cartoon like physics, and repeated jokes for 10 year olds are hilarious, then Johnny Dangerously is for you.

This is very underrated movie! My cable company gave it only one Star out of five. The IMDb is only 6.2 stars out of ten. The acting is actually quite good. Maureen Stapleton is a hoot! Michael Keaton does a good job.This is not a serious,. dramatic movie. It is satire and as sub is excellently done!Just sit back and enjoy. Is is a fun movie!On an enjoyment scale this is 9. Okay, so it is not The Godfather, few are on that level. Pop a big bowl of popcorn, get some cold soda and then get ready for a great movie fargen movie night!

Johnny Dangerously is less a movie and more an exercise in grave robbing. It's an Airplane! style spoof of 1930s gangster films…which is the whole problem in a nutshell. Airplane! was a parody of the airport disaster movies that had come out and been popular in the previous decade. Johnny Dangerously is parodying films that came out 50 freakin' years before this one was made. The result is a lifeless concoction that's weighed down even further by possibly the worst performance in Michael Keaton's career.Johnny Kelly (Keaton) is a good-hearted man forced into the life of a gangster in order to pay for his sick mother's operations, only to find himself challenged on one side by a rival criminal and on the other side by Johnny's younger brother, who grew up to be a crusading district attorney. Now, there's nothing inherently funny about that plot, much like there's nothing inherently funny about an airplane crash, so the humor has to come entirely from two things.1. Mocking the clichés seen in other stories about the same thing. 2. Random bits of absurd nonsense.The problem is that this film is making fun of clichés that are half a century old, which is like kicking an old lady's walker out from under her. For a spoof to work, the audience has to remember and care about the thing being spoofed. With Johnny Dangerously, you can forget about the audience. The people who made this movie couldn't have remembered or cared about what they were spoofing because they were movies made before the vast majority of this cast and crew were even born. The forced and phony result is what you get when people try and tell a joke they don't really understand.The random bits of nonsense are a little better, but they're still 2 or 3 steps down from the inspired lunacy of Airplane! and they can't escape the stale and labored smell that pervades the whole production. Basically, the funniest thing in this motion picture is looking at how hard the hair dressers had to work to disguise Keaton's receding hairline with this poufy construction hovering above his forehead.The star of the show doesn't help matters by doing a hammy impersonation of a 1930s movie gangster instead of, you know, acting and stuff. In fact, Maureen Stapleton as Johnny's mom is pretty much the only person here giving a legitimate performance. Everybody else is vamping it up like they're doing a sketch on Saturday Night Live, which one failed SNL film after another has proved you can't get away with for 90 minutes.If you've just finished a marathon viewing of 1930s gangster flicks, you might find Johnny Dangerously passably entertaining. Other than that, you'll just be shrugging your shoulders at it all the way through.

This prosaic piece of satiric trash spoofing 30s gangster film doesn't have enough humor in it to sustain a five minute TV skit. The actors are either over the top (Joe Piscopo, Dom Delouise) or flat and lifeless (Michael Keaton, Maureen Stapleton) as they waste their time and display none in this force fed bore.Johnny's (Michael Keaton) hypochondriac mom needs an operation on a regular basis so he throws in with Jocko Dundee on a caper to earn the money. He excels and earns a reputation as a man to be feared while Johnny's greatest is that his mother will find out. Dundee's rival Danny Vermin (Piscopo) sets up Johnny who is then prosecuted by his brother the DA. Will Johnny fry ? Perhaps, but it's director Ammy Heckerling and her writers that need to be executed since there's a complete lack of it in this bites it satire.Heckerling has made a career out of fair (Fast Time at Ridgemont High, Clueless ) to mediocre (European Vacation) to beyond dreadful (Night at the Roxbury) comedies as well as waste time with baby talk ( Look Whose Talking saga) but Johnny Dangerously may be arguably her worst. The satiric intent is strained at best and the jokes themselves sophomoric and poorly timed. Griffin Dunne looks and acts like he won the lead in a contest while the rest of the cast of old pros,( Boyle, Stapleton and Ray Walston ) play it broad and for a paycheck. Piscopo as Vermin has a few funny moments before he begins to chew too loudly but by then Heckerlings hackery has already fractured the films funny bone.