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JANE AUSTIN'S MAFIA is a parody of many of the Mafia movies of the past few decades. Jay Mohr plays the central character, Anthony Cortino, who must decide whether to join his family of crime after returning from the Vietnam War. With extensive slapstick and action violence, sexual humor and a pagan worldview, this is not a family film despite its PG-13 rating.

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(Pa, VVV, S, NN, A, D, M) Pagan parody of classic Mafia films of the past three decades; 6 obscenities & 4 vulgarities; extensive action/slapstick including man shot 41 times, two men shot in the face, car bomb blows man into the sky, woman hits man, man has head kicked off, man's thumb cut off, man shot while holding his son, man poisoned with bug spray, child implied to be eaten by dinosaurs, man harpooned in dinosaur costume, boy smashed behind a door, man stabbed by a bouquet of flowers, woman consistently hits people in the head with wooden spoon, boy bit by a rat, & man stuns 15 people with stun gun; sexual innuendo & sexual humor; woman in bikini and leather stripping outfit, upper male nudity & man in bikini bottom; alcohol use; smoking & excessive cocaine use; and, flatulence & gambling.

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Jim Abrahams has brought the American cinema some of the unforgettable parodies of the 80s and 90s. With AIRPLANE and NAKED GUN, he gave the viewing audience the chance to laugh at some of the classic genres of this cinematic era. With MAFIA, Abrahams tries to give a comedic twists to classic films such as THE GODFATHER, CASINO, IL POSTINO and even FORREST GUMP, but it lacks the magic and irreverent charm of many of his previous films. MAFIA will not go down in history as one of Abrahams’ best films.

MAFIA follows the story of the Cortino family as it unfolds over a century. It begins with Vincenzo Cortino ( Lloyd Bridges) as a young child and his first introduction to crime as he delivers a package to a crime family’s home. Due to his clumsiness, he is forced to leave his native Sicily and swim to America while chasing a ship named, Il Pacino. There he is exposed to crime, but he uses his wit to outsmart the normally dense group of mobsters. He experiences Ellis Island and all of the aliens coming into the country, including ET. Vincenzo’s life flashes ahead to the 60’s, in GODFATHER-like fashion, to the wedding of his eldest son, Joey (Billy Burke), and the return of his war-hero son, Anthony (Jay Mohr). During the wedding ceremony, Vincenzo (Lloyd Bridges) is shot while dancing what looks like the Macarena. While close to death, he begins to evaluate his life and who will be in charge of the family business.

After the wedding scene, the story is turned over to Anthony and narrated similar to THE GODFATHER and CASINO story lines. Anthony, or Tony, must decide whether to revenge his father’s shooting or lose the love of his life, Diane (Christina Applegate). As any good son will do, he decides to defend the honor of his father in a scene reminiscent of the legendary caf\u00e9 scene from the Godfather. Even with the seriousness of the subject, enough comedic twists are added that El Nino can even be blamed for some of the problems Tony has with killing. After this incident, he moves to Las Vegas to run a casino called the Peppermill. His psychotic brother, Joey, comes out to run security and all seems to be going well. Then, Tony begins to date a stripper, and Joey continues his cocaine problems (a scene that would surpass SCARFACE in ludicrousness.) This causes the beginning of the end of their lives in Vegas and parodies the violent ending of CASINO. The brothers lose trust in one another which is escalated when their father decides to make Tony the head of the family business.

As the head of the business, Tony stays in control of the Mafia, but tries to repent. He finds Diane, who has become the President of the United States, and they decide to get married. They manage to develop world peace but still sustain the traditions of organized crime. Without giving away the ending, the Cortino family lives on to run the mob for generations to come. (In Abrahams’ fashion, their son, Tiffany, runs the family business.)

Fans of the original AIRPLANE may be excited to see Jim Abrahams’ latest offering. Seeing his films always requires the disengaging of logic and standards and creates humor in a normally serious genre. Picking the Mafia seemed like a logical move for Abrahams, with all the movies from Scorsese and Coppola to use as material, but this movie does not have the timing of his other films. The funny sequences were not linked together well and many of the “funny” scenes were actually revolting. Nevertheless, Abraham’s still manages to hold the attention of the crowd throughout the credits, by adding in raw bits of humor.

These subtle additions require the audience’s full attention, as many details come and go quickly. Abrahams uses too many modern day references which will not allow this film to weather the test of time. True fans of Abrahams’ work may hope he will return to writing with the Zuckers, his previous writing partners. Hopefully this partnership would mark a return to better comedic storylines that do not require excessive references to sex and flatulence as the main forms of entertainment.

The saddest part of the film is the dedication to Lloyd Bridges at the end of the film. He deserves to be memorialized in a better film. Bridges has good comedic timing in the movie and delivers his lines at the same caliber as AIRPLANE or HOT SHOTS, but this was not his best work. Jay Mohr actually handles a comedy lead well, and it is hoped that he will find better material in the future. Christina Applegate does not extend beyond her MARRIED WITH CHILDREN role. She tries to force her role into the film, but delivers a mediocre performance. The biggest disappointment is the inclusion of Olympia Dukakis in this film. She was unrecognizable, did not deliver more than two lines, but passed gas 15 times. This film is a waste of a talented group of performers.

This movie will offend the viewer who does not like a good dose of sarcasm and infantile humor. Though lacking a moral center, MAFIA does not over use vulgar language to get its point across. Though completely, tongue in cheek, MAFIA lacks the originality of Jim Abrahams’ earlier works, movies that made parody fresh and fun to watch.

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Wow! You'd think by now Jim Abraham's material would be worn out and unoriginal. Think again. MAFIA! has got to be among one of the funniest parody films of the 1990s. This movie had me laughing for hours after I saw it, and even now when I think of some of the gags (especially the games in the casino) I can't help but to crack up. Also, the acting is BRILLIANT. Kudos to everyone who starred in the film! They all pulled off the ludicrously hilarious gags and delivered the most funny lines while keeping a straight face the entire time. I could never do that.
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1998 American film
Mafia!
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Directed byJim Abrahams
Written byJim Abrahams
Greg Norberg
Michael McManus
Produced byPeter Abrams
Robert L. Levy
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Edited byTerry Stokes
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Mafia!, also known as Jane Austen's Mafia!, is a 1998 American crime comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges (in one of his final films), Olympia Dukakis and Christina Applegate.\n

The film spoofs Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather series and various other mafia films, notably Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995). It also parodies films in other genres, ranging from Forrest Gump to Il Postino and The English Patient.\n

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Like the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, the narrative of Mafia! consists of a series of flashbacks interwoven with the main plot. Tony is the son of a prominent Mafia don, Vincenzo Armani Windbreaker Cortino. As the film opens, Tony introduces the main thread when he exits a Vegas casino and walks to his car, accompanied by a voiceover explaining his philosophy of life. When he starts the car, it explodes.\n

The story then regresses more than half a century to describe the boyhood of Tony's father, Vincenzo, who was born in Italy, the clumsy son of a Sicilian postman. One day, while making a delivery for his father, Vincenzo trips and the parcel bursts open, revealing a strange white powder. The parcel's recipient, concluding that the delivery boy has seen too much, tracks Vincenzo to a street fair, where he kills his father. The boy escapes to America, where he grows to young manhood, marries, and struggles with poverty before finally finding his destiny as a mafia boss.\n

The film then visits the recent past; Tony has just returned from the Korean War and is bringing his idealistic Protestant girlfriend, Diane, to meet his family and friends at his big brother Joey's wedding reception (a parody of Connie Corleone's wedding in the beginning of the 1972 film The Godfather). During the festivities, however, Vincenzo is shot 47 times in an attempted hit and nearly dies. Tony announces his intention to kill Gorgoni, a drug lord with whom Vincenzo had refused to do business before the attack. Diane leaves him, saying he's abandoned the peaceful ideals of his youth, and adding that she'll never be anything to his Sicilian family but \"that Protestant chick who never killed anyone.\" Tony avenges the attack, then goes into hiding in Las Vegas, where Cesar Marzoni offers him the opportunity to manage his casino, The Peppermill. Tony accepts and his casino is a great success until he meets a femme fatale, Pepper Gianini, hired by Marzoni as part of a deep-laid plan to distract him from his duties and to drive a wedge between him and Joey.\n

Vincenzo recovers from his 47 gunshot wounds and visits Las Vegas, where he officially names Tony his successor. Joey, furious at being passed over, is told \"You get Wisconsin.\" The Don then returns home, where he falls victim to his 5-year-old grandson, Chucky, who assassinates him by spraying him with malathion (parody of Vito Corleone's heart attack in The Godfather). The film returns to the present after Tony catches Joey and Pepper cavorting in a hotel room together and walks out in disgust - only to have his car explode.\n

Tony is horribly but temporarily disfigured, and attends his father's funeral in a wheelchair, where he spots the killers when he sees little Chucky taking a payoff from a rival Don. However, he decides to postpone vengeance until he can win back Diane's love and put his life in order. Diane has by this time become President of the United States, and is on the brink of declaring total world disarmament when Tony goes looking for her. He persuades her to put world peace on the back burner until after their wedding. During the ceremony, with the help of Vincenzo's Mom Sophia (Dukakis), and Tony's right-hand man Nick \"The Eskimo\" Molinaro, and a generic henchman, He settles the family's accounts in an orgy of slaughter (filmed similarly to the end of The Godfather), even arranging the harpooning of Barney the Dinosaur as a bonus.\n

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In its opening weekend the film took $6,577,961 in 1,942 theatres, averaging $3,387. In total in the US, the film made $19,889,299.[2]\n

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On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 14% based on 42 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. The site's critics consensus reads: \"Mafia! promises audiences a spaghetti plate of gangster farce, but only delivers egg noodles and ketchup.\"[3] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"C\" on an A+ to F scale.[4]\n

James Berardinelli of ReelViews wrote: \"Airplane! and The Naked Gun ..., two early entries into what has become a thriving comedy subgenre, worked in large part because the humor was fresh. Now, countless movies later, many of the jokes seem recycled, even when they aren't. ... Mafia! ... has its funny moments, but, in the wake of the hilarious There's Something About Mary, it seems more than a little lame. ... The volume of jokes is extremely high, presumably as a form of insurance\u2014if one fails, maybe the next will succeed. The problem is, Mafia! contains too many duds. And, when you're not laughing, you start to realize how little this film has to offer beyond the diluted humor. ... Mafia! isn't a terrible film, and it will probably provoke at least a burst or two of laughter from even the most grim viewer. On the whole, however, it's a weak parody that is better suited to video viewing than a theatrical experience.\"[5]\n

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, who gave the film two out of four stars, wrote: \n

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Yes, I laughed during Jim Abrahams' Mafia!, but even in mid-chortle I was reminded of the gut-busting experience last week of seeing There's Something About Mary. It is the new movie's misfortune to arrive after, instead of before, the funniest comedy of the year. ... Mafia! is the kind of movie that can never entirely fail, but can succeed to various degrees. It doesn't rank with Abraham's earlier efforts. And in a town where There's Something About Mary is playing, it's not the one to choose.[6]

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There are a handful of laughs in Mafia!, but most of the movie feels oddly repressed. ... The underworld gags are limited and repetitive, without the ripely promiscuous media-age lunacy that, in a comedy like The Naked Gun, made you feel as if the film were tickling funny bones you never even knew existed. Jay Mohr, as the Michael Corleone surrogate, and Billy Burke, as his psycho-hothead brother, don't even look the part\u2014they're like preppies clowning in a Harvard spoof\u2014and so the film gets virtually no lift from its performers. ... Still, when Mohr's Anthony Cortino grabs his brother's head and gives him the kiss of death, leaving a bright red smear of lipstick ... well, we may all know this genre's tricks too well by now, but that doesn't mean they can't make you smile.[7]

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  1. ^ a b \"Jane Austen's Mafia - Box Office Data\". The Numbers. Retrieved 13 July 2012.\n
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  3. ^ \"Mafia!\". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 11, 2012.\n
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  5. ^ \"Mafia!\". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 11, 2012.\n
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  7. ^ EW Staff (August 7, 1998). \"Critical Mass\". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 7, 2022.\n
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  9. ^ Berardinelli, James. \"Mafia!\". Reelviews. Retrieved February 11, 2012.\n
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  11. ^ Ebert, Roger (July 24, 1998). \"Mafia!\". Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago, Illinois: Sun-Times Media Group. Retrieved February 1, 2022 – via RogerEbert.com.\n
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  13. ^ Gleiberman, Owen (July 31, 1998). \"Mafia!\". Entertainment Weekly. New York City: Meredith Corporation. Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2012.\n
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Wow! You'd think by now Jim Abraham's material would be worn out and unoriginal. Think again. MAFIA! has got to be among one of the funniest parody films of the 1990s. This movie had me laughing for hours after I saw it, and even now when I think of some of the gags (especially the games in the casino) I can't help but to crack up. Also, the acting is BRILLIANT. Kudos to everyone who starred in the film! They all pulled off the ludicrously hilarious gags and delivered the most funny lines while keeping a straight face the entire time. I could never do that.
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Justin’s rating: I fought the law, and the law won… some FABULOUS HOME PRIZES!

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Justin’s review: Okay, here’s how public film testing should work for comedies. It would be very simple: each participant would be given a clipboard with a list of all of the jokes (visual and verbal) from the film, with two boxes to check — Funny, and Not As Funny As You Think. While watching the movie, the cinema lemming would go down the list, checking all willy-nilly, and the movie studios could finally figure out a few things.

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For one, a bulk (say 59%) of so-called “comedies” are mislabeled and falsely advertised to the point of partial brain damage. Now, tell me you haven’t ever rented a film that was sitting on the COMEDY shelf only to get to the end credits without smiling once, never mind laughing like a hyperactive owl! And Hollywood, any movie that has the words “Whoopi” and “Goldberg” in the credits somewhere… that isn’t comedy!

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They could also figure out that pretty much every “joke” in a dark comedy is only considered funny if you belong to that limited demographic that includes death row inmates and most film critics.

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This sort of checklist would be useful for spoofarody movies like Jane Austen’s Mafia! (Sundance Winner 1998: Best Movie Title In Show), if nothing else than to figure out if the laugh-to-polite-cough ratio is right on target or wildly out of whack. Sure, you’re not going to get 100% of hilarity or even close, considering how different jokes (such as subtle political satire) hit different demographic funny bones (such as the Vomit Lovers of America). But if you’re sitting in one of these rapid-fire gagfests, you better be laughing at least once a minute, or something’s horribly wrong.

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Directed by Jim Abrahams, one of the geniuses behind Hot Shots! and Airplane!, Mafia! is comfortable treading ground where the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker team has traveled many a time. Pick a genre (“Mafia flicks”), highlight one or two movies from that genre to mainly parody (Godfather and Casino), and dump excess dignity to make room for as many jokes as is tastelessly possible. Unfortunately for Abrahams and the spotty history of parody movies, they bet against the house here.

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The problem isn’t necessarily with Jane Austen’s Mafia! itself. It’s honestly a passable 80 minutes of spoofitry (my goal for today is to make up many new variations on a single word), with enough jokes that I keep re-renting this every year or two to while away a romantic summer evening. The problem is that the films chosen to parody, while well-known critically, aren’t as mainstream as, say, any movie that the Scary Movie series has picked to photocopy. The Godfather and Casino parodies are well-done, but unless you’re very familiar with the source, there goes 50% of your jokes right there.

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Plus, we have to deal with the iffyness of the lead actor, Jay Mohr. Now, I’m sure that Mohr is a fine human and earns enough in stand-up comedy to keep Kibbles ‘n Bits on the dinner plate, but Mafia! proves that he’s just not that “funny-funny” level to carry such a comedy on his pasty white shoulders. I see Jay Mohr, I think Jerry McGuire and how loathsome he was in that… so loathsome that I still have problems accepting him in any role other than “Demon Torturee #4”.

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Still, Jim Abrahams knows how to entertain his guests, and I genuinely like how there are touches of sheer artistry (such as the Jaws parody in the pool, or how the Italian townsfolk smuggle a kid out of the village) among the common scraps of mediocrity. Looking for a halfway-safe bet for a so-so enjoyable night? Rent the movie with the title that guarantees your girlfriend will be saying, “I thought you said this was PRIDE AND PREJUDICE!”

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