Brian de Palma has always had a soft spot for comedy, his early films were mostly comedies, so this big screen comedy isn't as much as an outlier
He's not very good at comedy. This is too broad, too silly, ignores reality like all the hoods shoving lighters in mafia boss Dan Hedaya's face.
Danny de Vito and Joe Piscopo are ideally cast as two lower ranked mobsters - that's a fun idea, the mobsters who do the worst jobs. But it's terribly done. Gaggy. Silly. The sort of movie and jokes that sound better in pitch (eg "testing the bullet proof vest").
De Vitoa's got a wig. Piscopo is quite amiable. Do De Vito's family know at the end he's not really dead? That seems kind of mean.
Gosh this film was terrible.
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