ThiefHott Too much of everything

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

trevuar 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.

Mr-Fusion "Johnny Dangerously" is pretty much what you'd expect from a gangster movie spoof, but the jokes land way more often than the miss (i.e. seldom). It just benefits from a very likable sense of humor, due in large part to Michael Keaton's comic sensibilities. Mostly this is just an obscenely quotable movie, be it Joe Piscopo ("You shouldn't hang me on a hook, Johnny. My father hung me on a hook once. *Once*") or Moronie's murdering of the English language. And loads more from there. And let's not forget the "Your Testicles and You" segment.This is funny stuff, and it's a shame I never hear it talked about.7/10

TxMike I managed to find this one on the Movies TV channel.Set in 1935, it is mostly told as a flashback. First to 1910 when Johnny was a kid selling newspapers on the street, then to the early 1930s as Johnny Kelly became Johnny Dangerously.Michael Keaton is just perfect as Johnny Kelly/Dangerously. As the film opens he is proprietor of a pet store, and a boy comes in and tries to walk out with a puppy under his jacket. Caught, Johnny sits him down and talks to him about what it means to take the criminal path through life. In early 1900s New York Johnny was a good and honest boy, but his Irish immigrant mom had a series of maladies. At one point, desperately needing money for a procedure, he gives in to a crime boss and earns $50 by using a folded newspaper to sneak a handgun into a gambling room, for a robbery.As Johnny does well, and eventually takes over for the retiring mob boss, the situation gets complicated when Johnny's younger brother, who he put through college and law school, decides to work for the D.A.'s office, intent to prosecute criminals, having no idea that his own brother is Johnny Dangerously.There is lots of goofy stuff, including nearby explosions that don't actually harm anyone, but they appear with scorched and tattered clothing, much like Roadrunner cartoons. Joe Piscopo is good as Danny Vermin, Johnny's rival. Lovely 30-something Marilu Henner lounge singer and is Johnny's love interest, Lil. Maureen Stapleton is his mother, Ma Kelly. And Griffin Dunne is his younger brother, Tommy Kelly.It was also fun to see former all-pro Chicago Bears player Dick Butkus as Arthur, one of the crime members.Just a silly by fun movie, not to be taken seriously.

historian64 Oh, what fun there is here! Amy Heckerling has a flair for directing comedy (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who's Talking) but here it looks like she told the actors to go out and have fun. Micheal Keaton breezes through the role of Johnny, easily his best screen performance. Joe Piscopo is great as the appropriately named Danny Vermin, what a shame directors didn't pick up on this. And I have even mentioned Richard Dimitri playing Moronie and the character's unique vocabulary. I don't think it's an accident that the bulk of the character's name is spelled MORON.Good lines are sprinkled throughout the movie, with Peter Boyle, Griffit Dunne.Maurren Stapleton, Merilu Henner given good lines. Even actors with minor roles like Dick Butkus and Alan Hale get in a good lines.recommend it to a friend.