PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

leplatypus I like how movies can sometimes parallel my own life: this movie is about a head of family compelled to change his daily life to be rich while from this week, I try also to change my bad habits to gain more audition. So as the expected addiction movies, we have the necessary up and down moments of rehabilitation but strangely, this plot comes late in the movie: before that, we have his fun (loose) life with friends exposed and the wedding of his prude daughter played by Jenny. In a whole, the movie is a bit disjointed but what a fun it is! I discover this Rodney with Caddyshack in which he was really crazy and here, he repeats the same flair for fun: it's cool to have a comedy man with such physical presence and sharp humor because there are no more like them in today American movies! He is a sort of Al Bundy on screen with the difference that his family is much more educated and serious and each family member has something (funny) to do. At last, the movie has a great nostalgic value: we see a lot of talented names in their young (Jenny, great Joe Pesci, slim Jeffrey Jones) and this 80s America was indeed a cool place to live! So you got working family + life in NYC borough + laughs all along the movie so I can't imagine how you could be disappointed ???

Prismark10 Rodney Dangerfield made his name in low brow slobbish roles. In Easy Money he plays Monty Capuletti, a kids photographer in New York. He is a working class guy who likes to eat junk food, drink, visit strip clubs, smoking dope and gamble with his friends which includes Joe Pesci and Tom Noonan.His mother in law, Geraldine Fitzgerald is actually a wealthy woman who owns a high end department store and she hates Monty with a passion. When she dies, she stipulates in her will that if Monty is able to give up his vices for a year, by eating good food, giving up drugs and gambling, he will receive $10 million. If he cannot, his family will get nothing and her scheming nephew Jeffrey Jones will inherit everything.The film is a bit hit and miss but is sporadically amusing. It feels rather underpowered maybe because you feel both Pesci and Noonan are underused. The film has a good theme song by Billy Joel.The subplot of Monty's daughter marrying a Puerto Rican and then is reluctant to loser her virginity to him comes across as clunky. Still Dangerfield reduxed the bare bones of the story a few years later and called it Back to School.

Michael_Elliott Easy Money (1983) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Minor comedy has Rodney Dangerfield playing Monty, a rather useless man who drinks, smokes and gambles too much, which causes his mother-in-law (Geraldine Fitzgerald) to hate him with a passion. After the rich woman dies, she puts it in her will that Monty and the rest of the family will inherit $10 million but only if he gives up all of his bad deeds. EASY MONEY is a passable comedy that has a few laughs but in the end you really can't help but look at it as a disappointment. There's no question that we get a few good laughs but the screenplay, written by Dangerfield and three others, offers up very little in regards to anything original. The main problem with the screenplay is that the premise just doesn't have much going for it. The bet of Dangerfield turning around his life doesn't come until about the forty-minute mark, which leaves us nearly an hour to sit around and watch him get sober. The first portion of the film gets some pretty funny jokes as the drunk Monty is constantly doing one wrong scene after another but these jokes are never as funny as the stand up from the actor. Another problem with the picture is a running joke where his daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has gotten married but she refuses to lose her virginity. Was this meant to be funny? If so there's not a single laugh that comes from it. Also, at 100-minutes the film goes on a bit too long. Still, there are still some funny laughs to be had and there's no question that Dangerfield is going a mile a minute as you certainly can't accuse him of slacking off. His full energy is on display and he manages to have some nice chemistry with Joe Pesci even if the actor isn't given much to work with. EASY MONEY is far from perfect and its not really what I'd call a good movie but fans of Dangerfield know the actor didn't have too much success on the big screen so this here is actually one of his better films.

James Bourke I remember owning an old VHS copy of this movie back in the eighties, and if memory serves, I pretty much played the movie ragged.The late great Rodney Dangerfield is the star of the movie without a doubt, his mannerisms, complete with his one liners always had me in stitches.Of course my VHS copy bit the dust, and I was most fortunate to spot that TCM were showing the movie just the other night, and although it had been twenty plus years since I had watched it, I still found myself laughing at the same points in the movie.Ably assisted in the comedy stakes by the likes of Joe Pesci before he found his Cousin Vinny, the whole movie does revolve around the maestro himself.I have to say, that when I was watching the movie, it's charm instantly transported my back to that early eighties, especially considering that Jennifer Jason Leigh was also in the movie playing Monty's nubile daughter.I remember watching her such genre classics as 'The Hitcher' and Paul Verhoeven's 'Flesh And Blood', overall though, the whole cast rocks, the director James Signorelli would go onto direct another little cracker in the shape of 'Elvira Mistress Of The Dark' And what about that ending, when Rodney Dangerfield waxes lyrical about his mother in law 'My Mother in law! For years I wouldn't kiss her face! Now I end up kissing her ass! Without a doubt, 10/10