It was alright. not a bad little flick and didn't look too expensive to make, handy considering its box office. Still, it has that 1990s TVM look that dates movies horribly. I'm no scholar of film stock and the like but it is an especially unappealing way to photograph a movie.
The music is awful too, farty horns and slap bass supplying the cheap, 'funky' incidentals and songs.
Also bad (and a major flaw) is Lenny's American accent which is unconvincing and surprising considering his talent to mimic and impersonate. His Mafiosi is oddly more believable than his Harlem bloke.
The makers clearly missed a trick here. Lenny should have been allowed to make his white character from Dudley and the difference of voice and behaviour would have been bigger and funnier. I imagine that this didn't happen because 1) It would have required a crowbar to force that into the plot and 2) it would have been ridiculous in extreme. British readers may (like me) relish the idea of Lenny in whiteface talking rubbish about the baggies and yam yam and Wolvo but it would be more or less imcomprehensible to normal people.
Lenny is by no means perfect in this but he is the entire reason I give it 6, but then again I remember the bucket of water song. oooooooooooooooookkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy
The music is awful too, farty horns and slap bass supplying the cheap, 'funky' incidentals and songs.
Also bad (and a major flaw) is Lenny's American accent which is unconvincing and surprising considering his talent to mimic and impersonate. His Mafiosi is oddly more believable than his Harlem bloke.
The makers clearly missed a trick here. Lenny should have been allowed to make his white character from Dudley and the difference of voice and behaviour would have been bigger and funnier. I imagine that this didn't happen because 1) It would have required a crowbar to force that into the plot and 2) it would have been ridiculous in extreme. British readers may (like me) relish the idea of Lenny in whiteface talking rubbish about the baggies and yam yam and Wolvo but it would be more or less imcomprehensible to normal people.
Lenny is by no means perfect in this but he is the entire reason I give it 6, but then again I remember the bucket of water song. oooooooooooooooookkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy