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Jane Austen's Mafia!
Threat advisory: High - High risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
The comedy you can't refuse!
Taking aim at Hollywood's greatest gangster films, Mafia! is the hilarious comedy spoof that packs all the laughs you'd expect from the hit-making director of Flying high! and Hot shots! In this side-splitting saga of disorganised crime's most dysfunctional family, legendary star the late Lloyd Bridges rules the underworld as the ruthless, powerful and ceaselessly clumsy godfather Vincenzo Cortino.
When the time comes to choose the next Don Cortino, a riotous rivalry breaks out between his two sons: one a war hero (Jay Mohr) and the other a raving psychotic! Also starring Olympia Dukakis in an outrageously funny cast - you'll happily die laughing with this dead-on mobster movie parody that offers entertainment you can't refuse!
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
Hot spaghetti!If you liked any of the other spoofs created by these people, then you'll like this one because it maintains the traditions of that genre perfectly. There is slapstick, goofiness, zaniness, in-jokes, intertextuality (ie they spoof specific films - mostly The godfather with a few chunks of Casino) and generally take the piss out of anything they can think of. Watching the first female president of the United States of America forgoing world peace for the sake of marriage is a goodie, as is the scene where she discovers for the first time that she's a mother.
If you like traditional gangster films (and I do) you'll probably enjoy Mafia! for the way they utterly destroy the gangster genre, including the gangster film to end all gangster films, The godfather. So many scenes from that classic are obliterated by the wacky humour in this film that I will never be able to watch them with a straight face again.
As he has said before, you either like this sort of film or you don't. If you do, I recommend it. If you don't, I don't. Now everyone's happy!
Security censorship classification
M (Low level coarse language, sexual references)
Surveillance time
87 minutes (1:27 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 10 February 1999
DVD retail: 1 May 2003
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