Working as 2 cleaning ladies at a federal bank that has to destroy old bills is asking for trouble. Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah can't resist stashing away some money that would be destroyed anyway. Will they get away with it?I love this feelgood movie about a "bankheist" while no money is actually been stolen because it would have been destroyed anyway. Jokes are punchy. Acting is frivolous and funny. The story is to die for, because who wouldnt dream of unlimited amounts of money to be grabbed for free!Especially for the fun and feel good factor I love this flick. It is like making a movie about being a kid in a candystore with unlimited acces. Adults still love candy but know best that money cant buy happiness but it can buy anything else !

This is a remake of Hot Money (2001) which was a really good British TV movie inspired by the true story of the Loughton incinerator thefts that took place in the late 80's to early 90's The thieves despite living sudden questionably lavish lives would have probably got away with it for much longer except one of the husbands stupidly tried to pay £100'000 of stolen bank notes into a bank which not surprisingly resulted in them being caught. Hot Money (in my opinion) is a far more entertaining watch than Mad Money as it is gritty and realistic, keeping you on the edge of your seat whilst still being light hearted. Sadly Hot Money is not available anywhere it seems to buy or rent as it was made by Granada TV and from what I can tell has not been released. If however you do want to watch it you can on YouTube and after the first 10 minutes the sound is much better - well worth a look if you found Mad Money entertaining

I have to say, I wasn't very excited to see this film in the least. I didn't expect very much from it at all. I felt this film was strangely cast. I love all of the actors that were in this movie but I didn't like them all in this together. I didn't like the plot and I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a comedy or not. So I wasn't all too thrilled to see this movie in the first place.After seeing Mad Money, my assumption that I was going to dislike it was proved correct. I was very bored, not amused in the least, I hated the characters as well as the plot all together. The plot didn't even make sense to me. I don't know if I missed something because I was day dreaming half the time or what but I didn't think it made sense. It seemed too simple for them to steal this money and I didn't understand how they were let off if they pretty much admitted that they stole it. Maybe I missed some major point in the plot but I didn't think much of this movie mad sense. Diane Keaton is one of my favorite actresses. I was sorely disappointed that she took this part. She is a billion times better than this role.

The first thing I can say about this is - its a re-make of a fairly good British 'made for TV' movie called Hot Money. For all those who thought it wouldn't happen in real life - it did happen at the Royal Mint several years ago, and Hot Money was a dramatised version of a true story. Mad Money is simply yet another attempt by Hollywood to rip off someone else's idea - just like The Departed. What I can't understand about re-makes is - 'Why bother if the original is still going to be better than the second one?' Hence my overall review of this is - why did they bother?