This movie is horrible

i think its great...I HAVE SEEN IT AND I LIKE IT

I loved this movie when I was 13. I am now 30 and looking back on it, it does seem kinda cheezy but that's what made it so much fun to watch. Still enjoy the movie but you have to be in the right mood.

Many of you may know me from other posts or my writings or opinions from my career. Whatever the case - I am a critic of some credibility. For instance, "There Will Be Blood" edges " No Country For Old Men" for its primitivism and its falling away from conventions then adhering all to strictly to very familiar madness. OK. That being said "Married To The Mob" is my favorite film of all time. I saw it at the United Artists 6 Theater in Marina Del Rey when I was 7, August of 1988. The film amazed me then and still does now. It is actually a mafia sting story set to crazed music and infused with everything and the kitchen sink. There are disenfranchised FBI agents. Killers trying to make names for themselves. Women trying to amend their ways. A child left without a father. A power hungry woman obsessed with her husband. Everything is in this film. It is a window into the world of commercial 1980s filmmaking and it completely mock everything it does in the story. People talk awkwardly into the camera at times, everything seems to yield with no realization of being filmed. I have never seen a film so bravely use the POV shot as Demme soes in this film. Some of yall can trip, but this movie is perfect. If you watch this film looking to find archetypes, you will find them. Connie Russo (Mercedes Ruehl) and her pack of chicas are emulative of a pack of sirens and Tony is a misbegotten Neptune (Dean Stockwell) in search of Babylon. I loved "Citizen Kane", "8 1/2", "The Seven Samurai" "Shawshank Redemption" Pulp Fiction, and many other classics but in terms of executing a madcap touching at times action packed mafia farce this movie hits its goal more than those films, and its goal is really not that simple. The action may be cheesy, but the final shootout is always surprising and the Burger World shootout has mad action and a clown trying to assassinate a mafiosos, so you can't beat that. I dont care about imdb ratings much but 6.0 is kind of a low rating, comparably. The 1980s were all about sensationalism and the start of mass commercialization and Demme knew that and made a mafia satire where a whole world of comedy existed. I bought the first draf of the script at auction and it had many more characters and craziness. This and "Something Wild" overlap in characters and themes and in both films I feel it is justifiable to root for the bad guy. I love ths film and will always respect Michelle Pfeiffer's gaul to wear some of these costumes without giggling. The film is not a straightforward piece of pie and it should really be examined by all film buffs much further. Demme went on to make "Silence of The Lambs" 2.5 years later and has since been a rather hot commodity, but it is with this film that he thoroughly worked his plan and planned his work. When grading a movie, consider how much a film hits its goal. "Naked Gun" was and is funny, but "MTTM" brings a higher social intelligence to every scene and could itself exist as a crime story, albeit a very odd one, but it exists as a monstrous satire, from rotic mafia rendesvouzes to men of a thousand costumes to the extravagant, mockingly sculpted haircuts, the movie used every Oscar winner Colleen Atwood costume and every briliant Tak Fujimoto lensingto make a piece of satire that is artful and a preservation of a time and a place. Everyone had a good time on this movie and everyone knew there work was gonna be out there. They just didn't know it would stand up to be brilliant.

I agree with Trutoulouse in previous posts on this thread... and I would add that one of my favorite devices in this movie is the jingle that Tony and his buttonman sing while driving to get burgers. It's layering like this that makes the comedy so strong - almost like putting a mirror in a room to make it look bigger. Also, the song is funny - I can almost remember most of the lyrics. But then right during the shootout, one of the figures is about to be killed and he says "Don't" in a frightened, surprised, innocent way. It's really a challenging addition in the midst of the humor. In fact, the way this movie comingles violence with humor predates Tarentino and most of the Coen's attempts that follow the same path. As to the latter, the Coens... even they created fake theme-songs in "Big Lebowksi" - remember Jeff singing "Branded" in the back of the Sheriff's cruiser? It wouldn't surprise me that this movie inspired that. 6 is way to low for this. I would rank comedies like this on the basis of how many times have I seen it, or if I saw it playing on television randomly, would I pause to watch it? This is at the least worth a mid-7, so I'll give it an 8.