I like these guys and went back for a second helping. Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics has a
review of The Italian Job, which I just watched this past weekend. Like quite a few movies these days, it is a remake of previous release, in this case, the
1968 original in which Michael Caine starred.
My own take on the movie, aside from the bad physics, is that it is, for once, a truly fun, funny, and classy action movie. That these brainiac hoods are good bad guys is established early in the story, allowing us to get past the moral dilemma of why I should be on the side of avaricious thieves. But unlike those genuine creeps in movies like Pulp Fiction and the many clones it spawned, these fellows
- don't kill
- don't cuss
- don't fornicate
And guess what, you laugh yourself silly over the running jokes, there is warmth between Mark Wahlberg & Charlize Theron (you see her in PJs, lol). Yes, Edward Norton as the bad good guy does look stereotypically diabolical, but even HE doesn't get killed!
The Italian Job is proof "Hollywood"
can make good entertaining movies without larding them with mo'fo's, boobs, butts, and blood.
