Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 10, 2004 | | Summary | Watch them do their stuff! | Content
 | This movie was not a box office hit when it was released just a few months ago, but dreams do sometimes come true. Starting in New Jersey in 1968, we follow the lives of four 'has-been' gangsters. Now retired and living peaceably in The Raj Mahal in Miami Beach, they attempt to make one last heist. So as not to be evicted (who wants to be homeless?) from this run-down hotel, they plot a way to save their special home. Look for the pink ostrich. Burt Reynolds looks good as an old man and is funny like in those 'Bandit' movies. Richard Dreyfuss who won an Academy Award for his role in THE GOODBYE GIRL and was great in MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS (I loved that music!) showed his winning style. Seymour Cassel who was in Bill Murray's RUSHMORE and Dan Hedaya (Detective Jack in SHAFT), round out the foursome. When you need a laugh, rent this one from the local video store (better yet, buy it here at Amazon.com), sit back and enjoy. If you liked GRUMPY OLD MEN, you'll love these "grandfatherly gangsters" who are not quite 'over the hill' yet. Stephen Iervolino compared this film ro 'GoodFellas' in LAUNCH. This parody is better than either or both/and in a class all its own. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 26, 2004 | | Summary | An Easy Movie To Watch ! | Content
| Just sit back and enjoy this flick. It's not going to win any awards but it is good lighthearted fun. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 27, 2003 | | Summary | Definatly worth a look, very funny and well done | Content
| The Crew is acually a very funny enjoyable movie. I will admit the plot is a little weak, but it's not horrible. It is basically about four ex crew members {Dreyfuss and company} want to stay in their appartment, so of course they set up a fake killing to keep their appartment. And along the way they meet a firy widow { Kazan}, a tenasious stripper { Jeniffer Tilly}, and a policeinvestogator who might just be Dreyfuss's long lost daughter { Carrie Anne Moss}. A bit corny......Yes but still very enjoyable. Without a doubt the three major female roles are what holds together this film. Kazan is hillarios as the old widow deli owner. Tilly is great and very enthusiastic as the female stripper "dating" one of the crew members for the money. And Moss is exellent as the police officer { in a short seen you get to see her do two more matrix kicks! don't miss it} and her part is no doubt way to short. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 17, 2002 | | Summary | As harmless as a basket of kittens | Content
| and thats why it gets three stars,for entertaining without being foul-mouthed or violent. I mean, I love violent, foul-mouthed movies as much as the next guy or gal, but rarely do you see a movie marketed to adults as mild as this. Its as toothless as some of its extras. The only prurient element in the movie is Jennifer Tilly's stripper character, who is busting (oh, look, I made a pun) out of a sequined bikini most of the movie. Aging mobsters try to feel young again by making some trouble. Fugheddaboutit if you dont have a family, but rent it for your own crew if you have one. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 14, 2002 | | Summary | Four Guys And Three Ladies in Gangster Comedy | Content
| Very lightweight comedy "The Crew" was about four ex-gangsters now living in Miami, where they try to scheme with a shotgun like old days; only this time for escaping eviction notice. And it worked ... at first. The good part of the film is its male cast (Dreyfuss, Hedaya, Reynolds, Cassel: plus good female players, especially "The Matrix"'s Moss, who again gives a toe kick to her ex-boyfriend (short scene, don't miss it). To be honest, the story is weak, and the script tends to lose its focus, but just watching these guys and ladies almost compensates. The film gradually improves as it goes on, so wait for a while until Dreyfuss's slightly annoying narration vanishes. The film is co-produced by Barry Sonnenfeld (of "MIB"), so if he had directed, the result might have been different. By the way, of the four gangsters, Dreyfuss is the youngest (b. 1947); next, Hedaya (b. 1940); Reynolds (b. 1936), and Cassel (b. 1935). |
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