I watched about 45 minutes and gave up on it. I am a huge Danny Aiello fan, but he lost it unfortunately with age. He tries too hard to be funny and it doesn't work here. It was interesting seeing an aging Barbara Feldon (in her 70's but still pretty hot)for a couple of scenes, but that's about it.Starts out with a sexually and nerdy repressed church choir boy, and his stud brother who's dying father's last request is that one of them gets married. So the Stud brother gets married and while on his honeymoon, (I think?) he croaks while getting laid. You see his wife's screams of ecstasy is enough to break glass, so glass shards falling on him from a mirrored ceiling does him in. (Believe it or not,funny,not) So, that leaves the nerdy son, and now I think the father's last request is that he gets laid 1st,and then gets married.(never explained that) Weird premise that gets boring fast.He goes about trying to meet woman by way of strippers and escorts. One scene is where a stripper gives him a lap dance and the stripper actually goes into convulsions because she has some type of allergic reaction to his cologne.(This is the type of humor we are dealing with here) Then he tries to consult with an escort. The escort appears to be a washed up porn star who imitates a female Godmother to satirize the Godfather's famous Don Corleone. Yup, very dumb and again painfully not funny. Oh yea, there is nothing funny about seeing an elderly woman fall down a flight of stairs! So as she lays at the foot of the stairs, her family just ignores her, and goes about their business cracking bad jokes with out anyone helping her. I found this to be very disturbing even though they were trying for some type of slapstick humor (I think they were going for a Naked Gun type humor here,and it's not even remotely close)There seemed to be many scenes with old time Italian actors just thrown in there because they are Italian and really do nothing to help this sad movie. When Joe Piscopo came on as the nerdy boy's mentor, I just bagged it, I had enough.(Maybe its me, but has Joe Piscopo ever made a good movie or even been the slightest bit funny since his old SNL days?) I gave this stinker a 2.0!

I only have one comment to add that won't duplicate what all the other reviewers have said (which I totally agree with): you've seen lots of movies with different dates from Hell, right? Well I'll bet you'll drop your popcorn (inside joke) you will laugh so hard at the characters and scenes this outstanding writer / director has written for the title character's attempts to honer his dying dad's last request and the hysterical roll on the floor laughter at the exquisite comedy timing of all the players. The writer / director totally outdid anything you've ever seen before. Almost all of the other reviewers mentioned similarity to the early, funny Woody Allen. I disagree. I say he is the new Woody Allen! And I can't wait to see what he does next! What a supreme pleasure to see an ensemble cast of experienced actors / actresses come together under the guidance of a brilliant writer / director and just knock it out of the park with apparently little budget and time (it only took 19 days to film?!) to work with. Bravo to all!

This film was recommended to me by a friend who's taste I usually disagree with. This was one of the few occasions that we actually did agree only I liked it even better than he did.T.R.Knight was a cute as ever and very funny. Danny Ailleo as his father was terrific as a former comedian on his own personal death row. Mario Cantone was as always very funny and a bit more outrageous than normal, if you can call what he does normal.The movie was filled with unusual even outlandish sight gags, which I am easy prey for. I laughed from beginning to the end. The Last Request wasn't a deep film it was just enjoyable and funny film if that's what the writer director intended he succeeded.

From the very beginning the film had me laughing and I knew I was in for a very unusual ride. Somehow the writer director managed to blend off beat with even more off beat with a some warmth, especially towards the end of the movie.Tony Lo Bianco and Mario Cantone shared a scene in the church and they were more like a comedy team than two actors working together in a movie. The biggest name in the movie was Danny Aiello who was brilliant as the over the top dying pop. T.R. Knight was perfectly cast as the nerdy son who has to work through all of of his fears on a quest his dying dad wouldn't take no for an answer. He was also matched perfectly with Sabrina Loydd the girl he doesn't know is the one. It's a simple story but anymore and the outlandish jokes wouldn't have worked. This is charming, funny film that somehow is kind of sick at the same time. I loved it. I'm glad I rented it. I'll have to thank the friend who turned me on to this little gem.