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Summary: Hugh Grants Bumbling Brit Routine gets Another Showing.
Review: "Mickey Blue Eyes" lies a little below "Analyse This", alongside "The Whole Nine Yard's", and Well Above "Mafia". It is a Constantly Enjoyable Comedy even though most of the great laughs are given away in the trailer.Hugh's performance may have been Over-Shadowed by "Notting Hill" one, but here he is allowed to Cut Loose and be Funnier, Sillier and play to his Stereotype, as does James Caan, playing a comical version of himself. Jeanne Tripplehorn gets to play a rare nice role and seems to have fun. In fact, everyone in the film seems to be having fun and that adds to the audiences fun. The DVD isn't exactly packed with features so it looses 1 star for that, but fans of the film will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Rent it when you have nothing else to do
Review: "Mickie Blue Eyes" is a mob-style comedy that doesn't do a very good job of covering either the mob or the comdey part of its genre. I personally enjoy James Caan and got this movie just because of him and the preview. This is not one of James Caan's better movies and the preview apparently had all the funny material from the movie within it (once you've seen the preview you have pretty much seen the only parts of the movie that were any good).
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Summary: A sweet, light hearted comedy
Review: 1999 sent out a splew of mobster comedies. I saw this one and said "Hey, why not give it a chance." I saw it and I was glad. It's not GREAT, but it was okay. Not a movie you'd recommend or maybe even see again. It's just an all around, little funny comedy. Worth seeing at least once. Stars Hugh Grant, Jeanne Tripplehorn, James Caan and Scott Thompson.
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Summary: 3 & 1/2 stars ---- A surprisingly funny & entertaining film
Review: A light romantic comedy with a similar premise to "Meet the Parents" (except "Mickey Blue Eyes" is a far funnier film), or "The Godfather" crossed with "Four Weddings and a Funeral." Hugh Grant plays a character similar to the ones he played in "Notting Hill" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral," except this time his character gets to do the good guy fish out of water routine. And boy does he ever do so effectively. Fughetaboudit? No way. Having Grant speak mob-ese was a stroke of genius. A very funny and entertaining film, good for a light evening or afternoon matinee, with not nearly the body count of a Simpson/Bruckheimer or Schwartzenegger flick. Don't expect too much and you shouldn't be disappointed.
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Summary: Not Good Enough
Review: A movie with a script that has a potential ! It is promising a certain degree of entertainment but Later on the movie bores the heck out! The Mob family concept in the movie is far beyond being entertaining. In other words I'd definately Rent the DVD then Buying it!
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Summary: Fun.
Review: Another great movie with Hugh Grant. I loved the parody of the mafia mobsters. All the things that are being played out so seriously in films like 'The Godfather', are being parodied in this film.
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Summary: Can I get a refund?
Review: Beware, I will be giving away a few plot points. Somebody somewhere thought that Hugh Grant could be his impish self and make this fish-out-of-water work. It would have been better if the whole thing slept with the fishes. This could be the worst script of 1999. Grant, an auctioneer at an art house, is about to become engaged to Jeanne Tipplehorne who's father James Cahn just happens to be a small-time figure in a mob-family. Cahn's associates get involved and somehow get Grant to launder mob money by auctioning off the truly awful paintings of the mob-boss' son to mob-boss associates who in turn never actually pay for them. Given the lengths the film goes to display Grant's goody-two-shoes nature, it's preposterous to begin with. Well, things go a bit astray, thanks to the truly bizare plot point of Grant willing to commit another feloney (tipping off an auction participant when a painting has passed its actual value) and through an incredibly convoluted series of events, mob-boss' son dies. Nobody but Grant and Tipplehorne knows who the real killer is. And the hilarity/hijinks just rolls from here. Tipplehorne is pretty much a throwaway character here and we're expected to beleive that she'll just disappear after mob-boss son's death. Caan sort of plays this as a cross between Sonny and Freddo Corleone. He has some of Sonny's power and violence and is as naive, if not necessarily as stupid as Freddo. Grant gives his usual (which is also becoming tiresome) nice guy in extrodinary circumstances performance. If all this is confusing so far, the ending may have you looking at the screen with the expression of a dog hearing a high pitched sound. Are we to assume that all of Mob-bosses associates are going to ignore what they've just seen?
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Summary: No, Mickey, You Say It Like This...
Review: Director Kelly Makin infiltrates the mob in "Mickey Blue Eyes," a comedy starring Hugh Grant and James Caan. Art House auctioneer Michael Felgate (Grant) is in love; when he asks Gina (Jeanne Tripplehorn) to marry him, though, she turns him down, and he hasn't a clue as to why. What he doesn't know is that her father, Frank Vitale (Caan), is a member of a "family" run by Vito Graziosi (Burt Young), and Gina realizes that if she marries Michael he will automatically become a part of it all, whether he wants to or not. She loves him, but she wants to protect him from the life into which she was born. An admirable notion; she will sacrifice her love in order to keep him out of trouble. Michael, however, is not about to accept her answer without further investigation. He decides it's time to meet her father. When Frank finds out, he is delighted, and he prepares to take Michael into the family. Before he can formally introduce his son-in-law-to-be to Vito and the other family members, however, he realizes some training is in order. That British accent, for one thing, just won't cut it. In what turns out to be one of the funniest scenes in the movie, Frank then attempts to coach Michael in the finer aspects of "mob" dialect. Well, "F'gedduhboudit." Michael comes off sounding more like Elmer Fudd on Prozac. By the time Michael finally meets Vito, he has become "Mickey Blue Eyes," a connection from out of town, and a man of few words. An amiable enough comedy, Makin keeps it all fairly light-hearted, and there are some humorous moments; all in all, however, there just isn't a lot of laughs here. Grant does a good job with Mickey, relying on his usual stammering and innocent countenance enough to win over the audience. Tripplehorn makes her Gina just sympathetic enough to make her likable, putting the martyr-for-love aspect to good use. Unfortunately, there isn't much chemistry between the two; the performances are satisfactory, but their characters lack that certain something that makes you really want to root for them. Caan does well in a roll to which he is perfectly suited; in fact, it would seem that this part was written specifically for him. Young is convincing as Vito, but he really doesn't have much to work with; he looks the part, but it's a thankless endeavor. Joe Viterelli adds a nice touch as "Vinnie the Shrimp," and with this one and "Analyze This" under his belt, he should be a made guy by now. The rest of the supporting cast includes James Fox (Philip Cromwell), Gerry Becker (Agent Connell), Maddie Corman (Carol), Tony Darrow (Angelo) and Paul Lazar (Ritchie Vitale). If your looking for some light entertainment and a few laughs, and especially if you're a fan of Hugh Grant, "Mickey Blue Eyes" will fill the bill. Though far from memorable, it's not too bad, either; just the ticket, perhaps, for whiling away a pleasant evening without having to think too much.
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Summary: Uneven, somewhat amusing Mafia spoof
Review: English actor Hugh Grant, who may be as close as we'll get to a modern-day Cary Grant, was on a roll in 1999. Notting Hill, in which he costarred with Julia Roberts, was a big hit both here and abroad. A couple of months later, Mickey Blue Eyes was released, and Mr. Grant's career once more rolled headlong into a brick wall. The last time this happened to him was several years ago after he appeared in the surprise comedy smash, Four Weddings and a Funeral. This says less about the charming and affable actor's talents than it does about his choice of scripts. Mickey Blue Eyes tries very hard to win us over, but neither the humor nor the love interest proves to be first class. Grant plays Michael Felgate, manager of a classy New York auction house. He has fallen madly in love with Gina Vitale [Jeanne Tripplehorn], a school teacher. When he asks her to marry him, she refuses. What he doesn't yet know is that her father is in the Mafia, and she doesn't want to expose Michael to that lifestyle. Michael decides to talk to Dad, and it only takes a few minutes for Frank Vitale's [James Caan] background to come out. Although Michael swears to Gina that he will not be affected by the situation, he is soon asked to pay back an unasked for favor to the mob. There's no safe way out for him, and soon more than just his love life is in jeopardy. One factor that weakens Mickey Blue Eyes is a storyline that does not equal that of many Mafioso movies that have preceded it. For example, the story of a guy who gets sucked into the Mob was far funnier in Analyze This. There are a few genuinely funny sight gags, but the rest have been seen before. As for the romance, there is almost no chemistry between Grant and Tripplehorn. One reason is that her character does not dominate the screen in the way Julia Roberts did in Notting Hill or Andie McDowell did in Four Weddings and a Funeral. One trick to a good romantic comedy or drama is to show a woman who is worth pursuing no matter what it might cost a guy. Gina Vitale is not that interesting a character, which makes the contortions Michael Felgate puts himself through seem more silly than amusing. Mickey Blue Eyes is perhaps more entertaining than I have made it sound. Comedy seems to be the hardest genre to describe. The movie has it's moments. It is neither dull nor dreary. It simply is not as strong as I think it should have been. Mr. Grant deserves better, and I think you do, too.
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Summary: I love it!
Review: Everyone in this movie has their own "style" so I've seen it many times and all I did is paying attatien to one of them and getting new surprise. They've together put enough details in this movie. Everything like the music is in control and the dialog is clever and implied so this movie seems a little "English" but not "cool English" at all, it is pretty gentle. Indeed I associated it with Notting Hill though I hated most of the latter maybe except "four seasons" part(Oh some parts are really horrible, I felt so awkward and uncomfortable at every Julia and Hugh's meeting. I bet a hundred times one million dollars they never fall in love in real life even if there's no anyone else existing in the world). The topic of the "touch" of the two cultures makes me excited; The part of "in the Chinese restaurant" is interesting too, there are three even four cultures contacting in this part. Being a Chinese(well, actually Taiwanese), I wanna say there is a good feeling of this part, it's better than many other films when they tried to crack a joke about we...they Chinese. Gesus Christ, Hugh in this movie is QQQQQQQQt, incredibly extremly cute, I even doubt he's not forty but actually four(There's no doubt this is a big secret), a real child of real talent(and with an old face).
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