The greatest movie ever made..!

hyped garbage

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Five years after lightning struck for Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn with the surprise hit SWINGERS, they attempted to re-capture that magic by playing more or less the same characters with the same antagonistic friendship in MADE. Except that instead of a simple, let's-go-to-Vegas buddy comedy, MADE takes the intriguing form of a mob comedy.Mob comedies often don't work, a fact that is amusingly referenced here (when on a plane to New York and told by the flight attendant that the in-flight movie is the awful MICKEY BLUE EYES, Vaughn sneers in disgust). But this one is actually pretty awesome.Favreau (who also directs, as he did with SWINGERS) plays Bobby, a bouncer who can't help punching out the clients that touch his stripper girlfriend (Famke Janssen). Vaughn is his best friend Ricky, and exactly the same kind of hilariously petulant asshole he was in SWINGERS, except even more obnoxious. In order to pay back the losses they've caused their Jewish mobster boss (a great Peter Falk), they are sent on a mysterious "job" in New York.Tonally, the film is a bit of a mess, but back in 2001 I really dug the way it whiplashes between light comedy, dark comedy, surprisingly poignant drama, and actual suspense, and I still do.The supporting cast is also great. In addition to the aforementioned Falk and Janssen, there is Sam Rockwell as a bellboy, Vincent Pastore and Drea De Matteo from THE SOPRANOS, Faizon Love, Jennifer Esposito, Bud Cort, and most interestingly, a convincingly intimidating Sean "Puffy" Combs as Falk's New York business partner, Ruiz. Oh yeah, and there's a cameo by Dustin (Screech from SAVED BY THE BELL) Diamond as himself that is pretty much the funniest part of the whole movie.Despite all the other elements, what it really comes down to is the comedic chops of Favreau and Vaughn.

Trying to catch lightning in a bottle once is hard enough, twice is darned near impossible. I liked "Swingers", I thought the balance was pretty good and that made Vince Vaughan effective in his annoyance. "Made" is not as well balanced with Vaughan. It is true you wouldn't have much of a story without his character (a gold medal screw up) but then in order to get the story you have to suffer through a thoroughly overdone taste of Vaughn's idiotic character.I gave 3 stars because there are cast members that redeem parts of this movie and make it thoroughly enjoyable. Peter Falk does a fantastic turn as the lower level crime boss, and even give Vaughn the slightest taste of what I should expect most of the audience would like to give him...short of some violent and brutal death within the first third of the movie. Famke's 'stripper girlfriend' yes is a stereotype portrayed, but she does it awfully well. Special bonus points for getting Michael O'hara to show up in this.And I am sure if you actually like Vaughn's annoying frenzy combined with a humongous yet very fragile ego, then you'll absolutely enjoy this movie.

Fantastic! I think this is where Vaughns off beat dry sense of comedic humor really took off, almost every scene has an edgy feel about it, very trendy and in my opinion ahead of its time...I think many mob films with a splash of comedy thrown over it have been made, unfortunately most of them failed somehow this one doesn't even P. Diddy is tolerable and the dialoge between the two as well as their love hate relationship makes it a good watchIn conlclusion One the few good "guy" films out there and the characters although somewhat zany are extremely likable as well as easy to relate to, if your a Vaughn fan or just prefer humor that isn't dull and obvious check out Made!!

Just that: Painful. Forcing myself to watch the entirety of this flick was like trying to pull out my own teeth with a pair of pliers. Vaughn's character's dialog was unbelievably obnoxious; I kept turning down the volume just to get through it with out actually turning off the player. While, every now and then, an actual action-or-comedy-spiced plot would momentarily surface, the remaining 90-percent was a never-ending husband-and-wife bickering between the two main male characters. Not a light banter as between Crystal and Hines, but a creepy, juvenile dialog-cum-slap-fest. Maybe I just don't understand what the write/director were after, but.. I found it boring! boring! boring!