generationofswine I don't know where to start? Are you familiar with the bulk of Mickey Rourke's career? If you are than you are going to love Dana Carvey in this. Is constant Rourke impersonation is almost as good as Norm McDonald's Burt Reynolds.Then again, if you aren't familiar with Rourke, Carvey may just be annoying.Either way, the movie is hysterical and back when Cage found an outlet for all his over-acting abilities...you know, comedies.It's a great comedy that time, unfortunately, swept under the rug. One that should be remembered but like so many other comedies, was taken as disposable fun.Go back, revisit it, watch it again, you won't be disappointed.

SnoopyStyle Bill Firpo (Nicolas Cage) tries to keep honest. However his brothers Dave (Jon Lovitz) and kleptomaniac Alvin (Dana Carvey) get early parole due to overcrowding. Bill is pulled back in as they go to Paradise, Pennsylvania to find Sarah based on another inmate's story. They find the small local bank so lax in security that they have to rob it. They have to get the keys to the vault from bank president Clifford Anderson (Donald Moffat). On the way out, they crash their getaway car. They are rescued and brought to the Andersons and their upstairs renter bank worker Sarah Collins (Mädchen Amick). None of them recognize that the brothers are the robbers. The criminal who had the original idea to rob the bank finds out. The FBI led by agent Shaddus Peyser (Richard Jenkins) are also looking for them. They keep failing to get away while the people in town are all so very nice.Dana Carvey has that annoying voice and face. He is stupid in a hateful way. Jon Lovitz is slightly better by comparison. Nicolas Cage is angry and with good reasons. The three brother are so annoying that there are unlikeable. They are unfunny. And the jokes fall flat. The big chase isn't anything fun. It is generally boring and most of the blame has to be laid at writer/director George Gallo's feet.

ccthemovieman-1 I liked the cast with three very diverse lead characters played by macho Nicholas Cage, fatso Jon Lovitz and wimpy Dana Carvey. Two of the three actors did good jobs playing their guys, too. Unfortunately, the big star - Cage ("Bill Firpo") - gave a bad and abrasively loud performance. If you would have asked me in advance to pick one of the three who might bomb, I wouldn't have selected him.Lovitz, as "Dave Firpo," had the best lines in the film. As "Alvin Firpo," Carvey's kleptomania problems were funny at first but grew tiresome fairly fast. Sadly, the story wasn't that good, either, although it should have been. This premise about crooks being unable to get out of town due to various weird situations, in here it's mainly a snowstorm.If you want a better movie about being trapped somewhere and trying to escape with the loot, watch Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid in "Quick Change." That's a heckuva lot funnier film.

marchedge I have just watched this film for about the fifth time, and it just gets better and better. Honest to God, is't got to be the funniest film I've ever seen. I actually cried it's so funny! Jenkins is brilliant, and Lovitz should get a lot more recognition that he does, just for this film alone. Everyone in this movie plays their parts perfectly, and all their expressions are so hilarious and true to form, such as "what...what...what...what..." from Jenkins, and Cages' 'gagging' motion at being told the bank has been robbed, and also Carvey's "Oh my God...GUNS!". THANKYOU for such a cool film...it deserves an Oscar in my opinion.