Even if you're not the biggest fan of Nora Ephron and her dating comedies, My Blue Heaven is really something special, and certainly one of the must download movies of the era. Steve Martin really knocks it out of the park here, and Nora Ephron goes above and beyond to prove that she can actually still be incredibly funny when she really wants to be.
The film stars Steve Martin as an Italian gangster who's just entered the witness protection program, and Rick Moranis as the FBI agent assigned to handle his case. Martin moves into a small town and, yes, it's another, typical fish out of water story, but it's well done, and when it's an old story, what matters is that it's well done.
The movie is funny, and that's what it really comes down to in a comedy. Steve Martin is really at his best here, as is Moranis, and even some jokes that should, by all rights, fall flat, wind up providing some of the biggest laughs of the film. It's your standard odd couple story, Martin is morally ambiguous, Moranis is uptight, but it works well, these two skilled actors make it feel fresh and new.
Martin quickly takes over the entire small town after meeting up with some fellow protected witnesses. You'd think it might get unpleasant watching a bunch of truck hijackings and robberies in the middle of a light hearted comedy, but they actually manage to make it sort of cute and innocent. It doesn't feel like mafia stuff, it feels like a grown up version of the Little Rascals getting into mischief.
Even though the movie does get into organized crime, murder and so on, the end result is really a film that is cute, innocent, funny. The violence is never really scary or suspenseful so much as... Well, a shootout provides a fun bonding experience for Martin and Moranis, and another gunfight towards the end of the film provides one of its biggest laughs "I lied, now where was I?"
The movie also draws some great comedy from Martin's incredible ability to juggle women. He has two girlfriends and a wife, and somehow, they never find out about one another. This is funnier and funnier as the film goes on and you start to wonder how he manages to drift in and out of these women's lives without ever drawing any suspicion. Maybe he's just that charming?
There's a great, dreamy look to the film with clear blue skies and green pastures, that iconic, picturesque American small town landscape. This really serves as a nice contrast to the urban, gritty environment which Martin typically finds himself more at home in.
It may or may not be one of the greatest films of all time or anything like that, but it's very funny, Martin and Moranis are in top form, and Ephron proves once more that, when she has a fun idea, she can still write a great comedy film, even if she doesn't always feel like it.
The film stars Steve Martin as an Italian gangster who's just entered the witness protection program, and Rick Moranis as the FBI agent assigned to handle his case. Martin moves into a small town and, yes, it's another, typical fish out of water story, but it's well done, and when it's an old story, what matters is that it's well done.
The movie is funny, and that's what it really comes down to in a comedy. Steve Martin is really at his best here, as is Moranis, and even some jokes that should, by all rights, fall flat, wind up providing some of the biggest laughs of the film. It's your standard odd couple story, Martin is morally ambiguous, Moranis is uptight, but it works well, these two skilled actors make it feel fresh and new.
Martin quickly takes over the entire small town after meeting up with some fellow protected witnesses. You'd think it might get unpleasant watching a bunch of truck hijackings and robberies in the middle of a light hearted comedy, but they actually manage to make it sort of cute and innocent. It doesn't feel like mafia stuff, it feels like a grown up version of the Little Rascals getting into mischief.
Even though the movie does get into organized crime, murder and so on, the end result is really a film that is cute, innocent, funny. The violence is never really scary or suspenseful so much as... Well, a shootout provides a fun bonding experience for Martin and Moranis, and another gunfight towards the end of the film provides one of its biggest laughs "I lied, now where was I?"
The movie also draws some great comedy from Martin's incredible ability to juggle women. He has two girlfriends and a wife, and somehow, they never find out about one another. This is funnier and funnier as the film goes on and you start to wonder how he manages to drift in and out of these women's lives without ever drawing any suspicion. Maybe he's just that charming?
There's a great, dreamy look to the film with clear blue skies and green pastures, that iconic, picturesque American small town landscape. This really serves as a nice contrast to the urban, gritty environment which Martin typically finds himself more at home in.
It may or may not be one of the greatest films of all time or anything like that, but it's very funny, Martin and Moranis are in top form, and Ephron proves once more that, when she has a fun idea, she can still write a great comedy film, even if she doesn't always feel like it.
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