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Dominican Rep. Oscar
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Comedy
In this remake of a french farce, Sylvester Stallone stars as notorious 1930s mobster Angelo "Snaps" Provolone. When Angelo promises his dying father (Kirk Douglas) that he will give up the gang life for a respectable career, his plans go haywire in this witty comedy of errors. The minute that Angelo begins his attempt to go straight, family emergencies overtake his household. His accountant, Anthony (Vincent Spano), admits to robbing ... [+]
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"Director John Landis' comic timing is a little slow in spots - we get the joke before he thinks we will - but Oscar generates a solid pace of rolling big laughs" | POS |
United Kingdom |
Time Out | "The script is sharp, if formulaic, but the film suffers from several contradictions: this is a farce without sexual tension, a family film with Stallone in the lead, a Landis comedy without vulgarity." | NEU |
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United Kingdom |
Time Out | "For a film meant to define a lighter and fresher image for Stallone, Oscar doesn't quite get the job done" | NEU |
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United States |
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"Oscar is an intermittently amusing throwback to gangster comedies of the 1930s" | NEU |
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United States |
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"Oscar is a marathon of running gags, but few cross the finish line" | NEG |
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"After years of inadvertently making us laugh, Sylvester Stallone actually does a picture designed to be funny. It isn't, not very, but, yo, give the man credit for going with the flow." | NEU |
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"Stallone is to humor what John Goodman is to ballet" | NEG |
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