I married into a Sicilian family. And let me tell you, I had no idea what I was getting my naive little blue-eyed self into.

I was threatened pretty early on, by no less than two Godfathers, that if I broke the heart of Silvio's little Bambina, I would find myself wearing a pair of concrete shoes whilst swimming with the fishes.

So, when people ask me what the secret is to our long and happy marriage, the truthful answer is that my life depends on it. Literally.

Maybe that is why I just didn't find this film funny in the slightest. This kind of thing is nothing to be laughed at. It is deadly serious.

Whoever dreamed up this piece of shit film... Vaffanculo!

I don't know if it's Hugh Grant's cheeky British sensibility, or the fact that I love mobster movies, but I've always had a real soft spot for this comedy.

While it's not the most inventive comedy in the world, I've always liked stories were characters are intentionally leading a charade against friends, family and close loved ones. Classic 90s story plot...

Couple of giggles, and a bit of fun.

A hugely underestimated film, I think. Mickey Blue Eyes makes me laugh all the way through.

“Rent Casino, Goodfellas, The Godfather 1, 2, 3.”

A beaten man is strong armed by the mafia into buying a worthless painting at auction, and two minutes later we see mobsters unloading Gateway cow print boxes from the back of a truck.

One man's product placement is another man's explanation for how the worst computers ever assembled moved so many units in the 1990s.

Dreadful. Hugh Grant had not quite found himself out of the wilderness so he was cashing checks.

The Englishman

MICKEY BLUE EYES (15)
D: Kelly Makin
Universal/Castle Rock/Simian (Elizabeth Hurley & Charles Mulvehill)
US 1999
103 mins

Comedy

W: Adam Scheinman & Robert Kuhn
DP: Donald E. Thorin
Ed: David Freeman
Mus: Basil Poledouris

Hugh Grant (Michael Felgate), James Caan (Frank Vitale), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Gina Vitale), Burt Young (Vito Graziosi), James Fox (Philip Cromwell), Joe Viterelli (Vinnie D'Agostino)

Meagre attempt to cash in on Hugh Grant's popularity at the time by casting him in this tepid rom-com about a charmingly befuddled English auctioneer who gets inadvertently involved with the Mafia when he falls in love with a teacher whose father is a mobster.
It's all one-joke sitcom stuff with annoying performances and not much to laugh about.
4/10

Me in film class: no I haven’t seen The Godfather Part II, but have you seen this Hugh Grant 1999 classic?

v average romcom

why does jesus has a machine gun?

Fun!

early 2000s W Network core

Filming The Sopranos must have been like a high school reunion for 90% of the cast of this movie.