 THE CREW
MPAA Rating:
 for sexual content, violence and languageVery Offensive
Moviemaking Quality:
 Primary Audience:
Teen to Adult
Genre:
Comedy/Action
Length:
1 hr. 28 min.
Year of Release:
2000
USA Release:
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Synopsis: “There’s no place like home — even when it’s the ratty Raj Mahal senior citizen residence hotel in yuppie-haven South Beach, Miami. While sexy models cavort on the white sands posing for haute couture fashion magazine covers, four fossilizes former wiseguys: Bobby Bartellemeo, Joey “Bats” Pistella, Mike “The Brick” Donatelli, and Tony “Mouth” Donato, face eviction from the semi-squalor of the Raj on this otherwise posh strip of shore. Management’s plans for renovations of the building, to force higher rents and attract a classier clientele, are squeezing the geezers out. Although in the sunset of their years, it’s not exactly sundown, and they hatch a seemingly simple scheme to save their retirement residence. Comedy and chaos collide when the elderly GoodFellas' caper goes awry and inadvertently entangles a paranoid drug lord who is convinced he’s about to be rubbed out by a mysterious gangland rival.”  Hmm, let’s see, bad script, bad acting [from some very good actors, mind you] and a lot of boredom pretty much sums up my feelings of “The Crew”. Granted there were a number of funny lines, a low number though. I didn’t notice a lot of cussing at all. However I am now using the word, “mook” [like book] some now. I kindof thought it was a neat little word so I picked it up. I wanted to like the movie but I just never really got into it. It was like the whole thing was in slow motion, to accompany the large number of older people who would go to it. I don’t know. Cliches abounded in this movie. I could spot a sentimental scene five minutes away. Especially toward the end. I was hoping fo something new and funny. But I guess you don’t always get what you want, now do you?… My Ratings: [3/2] This movie should be called "The Disappointment". It was funny at parts, but there weren’t enough of those parts. I love Carrie-Ann Moss but please, can we try and make a good movie. That’s all I ask. Her talents weren’t utilized here at all. Who knows, maybe she wanted to work with Burt Reynolds and Richard Dreyfus. About 15 un-needed scenes in strip clubs. Perhaps it was to make up for a really pointless scene. Don’t waste your time. go see "Bless the Child" instead. It’s got less cussing and a better plot. My Ratings: [2.5/2] This movie is terrible. I was offended tremendously by this movie. The movie is full of sexual content. A scene of brief nudity disgusted me. A group of my friends and I went to this movie expecting a really funny movie. We got the total opposite. There is bad language through-out the movie. This movie should easily have been rated R. I do not reccmmend this movie to any one wanting to see a funny movie, or to any one else for that matter. My Ratings: [1/1] Movie Critics
“…at least 1 use of the “f” word, while other expletives and colorful phrases are also used…” “…casual sexual relations … severe violence…” “…one of the year’s funniest films…” “…A simple R [rating] would have been entirely adequate…” |
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