Cripes The Sing has a lot to answer for - Lucky Lady, Nickelodeon, this. It was probably heaps of fun to make. James Caan and Elliot Gould look like they're having fun as a song and dance duo who are like a low rent Hope and Crosby - only without really defined personas (Caan is dumb and confident, Gould, dumb and not as confident). They use their routines to pick pockets. They go to prison, wind up with classy thief Michael Caine. I think there's something about revenge. The film throws in Diane Keaton as a feisty woman, and Lesley Ann Warren as Caine's dolly bird.
I liked seeing Caan and Gould do songs but the film was annoying. Wacky music. Dumb plot, Not developed. Lacks focus. You could have cut out Caine's character - Caine is charming and pulls focus. The film doesn't get going until an hour in when they decide to rob a bank.
The robbery sequence is painfully unfunny. Charles Durning is in it. Burt Young. Oh it was terrible.
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