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Jane Austen's Mafia
The creative force behind the Airplane and Hot Shots franchise mine for similar laughs in the 1998 lampoon of mob movies called Jane Austen's Mafia!.
This mob movie satire follows the adventures of the son of a Mafia king taking over his father's business while trying to control his power hungry older brother and the two very different women in his life.
Director and screenwriter Jim Abrahams has constructed a story that is a pretty accurate melding and lampooning of The Godfather and Casino that features elements of both movies that will be familiar to fans of the genre. The film starts off with a perfect take-off of the opening scene of Casino, moving to gags related to Godfather I and II and back to Casino again and giving them an authenticity by featuring a lot of actors lampooning themselves in some of their most famous roles.
Abrahams is a long time veteran associated with these kind of satires and sometimes lets the gags go on a little longer than they should, especially a sequence at a mob funeral that gets way out of hand, but his on target handling of the Ace Rothstein narration in Casino, the on target spoof Sharon Stone's Ginger in that movie and the send up of Don Vito Corleone via the late Lloyd Bridges are a lot funnier than expected.
Jay Mohr provides just enough of a straight face to his Michael Corleone take off worth investing in and Christina Applegate is fun as this film's Kay Corleone who drops the mob prince and becomes the POTUS. The late Lloyd Bridges made his second to last film appearance as Vincenzo Cortino and the film is dedicated to him.
The creative force behind the Airplane and Hot Shots franchise mine for similar laughs in the 1998 lampoon of mob movies called Jane Austen's Mafia!.
This mob movie satire follows the adventures of the son of a Mafia king taking over his father's business while trying to control his power hungry older brother and the two very different women in his life.
Director and screenwriter Jim Abrahams has constructed a story that is a pretty accurate melding and lampooning of The Godfather and Casino that features elements of both movies that will be familiar to fans of the genre. The film starts off with a perfect take-off of the opening scene of Casino, moving to gags related to Godfather I and II and back to Casino again and giving them an authenticity by featuring a lot of actors lampooning themselves in some of their most famous roles.
Abrahams is a long time veteran associated with these kind of satires and sometimes lets the gags go on a little longer than they should, especially a sequence at a mob funeral that gets way out of hand, but his on target handling of the Ace Rothstein narration in Casino, the on target spoof Sharon Stone's Ginger in that movie and the send up of Don Vito Corleone via the late Lloyd Bridges are a lot funnier than expected.
Jay Mohr provides just enough of a straight face to his Michael Corleone take off worth investing in and Christina Applegate is fun as this film's Kay Corleone who drops the mob prince and becomes the POTUS. The late Lloyd Bridges made his second to last film appearance as Vincenzo Cortino and the film is dedicated to him.