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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Simply A Masterpiece

As Good As It Gets

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Uncle Joe (Kirk Douglas) is an aging grumpy wealthy eccentric. His nieces and nephews are desperate to be on his good side while stabbing each other in the back. Carl (Ed Begley Jr.) and Nora McTeague (Mary Ellen Trainor) brought their two kids. Patti (Colleen Camp) and Ed (Bob Balaban) have two daughters Jolene and Joette. Glen (Jere Burns) and Muriel are getting separated. Frank (Phil Hartman) has a bratty son and a drunken wife Tina. Then Molly Richardson (Olivia d'Abo) shows up as his live-in 'nurse' and threatens everything. Danny McTeague Jr (Michael J. Fox) is a struggling bowler sleeping with the program producer Robin Hunter (Nancy Travis). His father hated uncle Joe's greedy ways and took his family away. The rest of the family is now so desperate that they try to reclaim the high ground by returning the long lost nephew and his family. Danny liked Uncle Joe as a kid and decides to go back to borrow money for a bowling alley.There are just so many unlikeable characters. On the other hand, I like Kirk Douglas and Michael J. Fox together. If they could reduce the number of relatives, this may work better. The bickering relatives are funny for a little while but it wears pretty thin. It would also concentrate the villain of the play. When Danny starts to turn, he loses some of the sympathies. He just walks a little too far over the line. Also he needs to save himself without his daddy coming to the rescue. If Danny isn't so desperate in some of the scenes, it would be better for the movie.

This comedy from the same director that brought us My Cousin Vinny is certainly a bit of a buried treasure. A well-cast, surprisingly effervescent production that has a good number of genuine laughs. Kirk Douglas is an aging millionaire, whose immediate family is comprised of a loathsome greedy horde of bloodsuckers who spend their time in outrageously sycophantic displays while trying to undercut their competition. Their plans hit a snag with the arrival of sexy pizza delivery girl Olivia D'abo who stays on as Douglas' caretaker. To attempt to ameliorate her influence, the clan seeks out Douglas' favorite estranged nephew - a down-on-his-luck bowler played by Michael J. Fox, who does his best to rise above the shenanigans, but finds himself drawn ever further into the melee.If the film has a major weakness, it is that once the family unites to draw Fox into the game, the entire group of them (including Hartman, Jere Burns, Colleen Camp, etc.) suddenly operate as one mind rather than continuing to undermine each other. It would have been far more intriguing to see each specific relative continue with schemes of their own. Otherwise, the film is a lot of fun. Douglas is hilarious as the millionaire, who knows all too well what the family is doing and always seems one step ahead of their foolishness. Phil Hartman is a deadpan delight as the primary golddigger, who spends his time disparaging his relatives to Douglas with acid backhanded "compliments". Director Jonathan Lynn is acerbically funny as the put-upon butler and D'abo is suitably sexy as the wild card in the mix. The usually capable Nancy Travis is stuck with a largely humorless role as Fox's well-meaning girlfriend and the voice of reason in the film. Truthfully, her character could have been omitted or combined with the D'abo character without any deleterious impact. Fox himself has rarely been better outside of the Back to the Future franchise. This is one of his most appealing and consistently amusing performances. I would also be remiss in not mentioning his pleasantly surprising extended nude scene. I mean, WOW! Who knew? Sharp-eyed viewers will figure out the ending, but it does not make it any less satisfying. A film comedy that definitely needs to be rediscovered and re-evaluated by a new crop of viewers. They will definitely be rewarded.

Michael J. Fox, Ed Begley,Jr and the legendary Kirk Douglas are ALL likable performers- no question about it. Too bad they're stuck playing TOTALLY despicable and UNlikable characters in this movie! After being introduced to one greedy, scheming relative after another for the zillionth time, WE GET IT! The love of money is EVIL-DUH! Even those characters the audience is *supposed* to think are likable (Fox's too-loyal girlfriend and principled hippie dad)fail to be. The girlfriend keeps threatening to leave Fox if he doesn't walk away from this mess- again and again. After the zillionth empty threat instead of thinking he's risking losing a good girl (like the script would want us to believe), I got the idea she was JUST as unprincipled and manipulative as the rest as she definitely STAYS to the end. Oh, and his dad was portrayed too much like a utopian hippy to be believable.I DO urge everyone who has the chance to watch the opening credits for the Late Jimmy Durante to sing his signature song of 'Inka Dinka Dinka Doo'! Durante definitely steals the show because he is the ONLY vaguely likable character in this whole movie! Yeah, Fox does a good imitation of Durante but is it worth going through the REST of the movie to see? I think not.

Saw it before, and watched it again last night, even though I normally don't watch films twice. Period.I think this is a brilliant film.The humour in it is great, even though I knew what was coming. I mean: the fact that I remembered some of the lines from watching it a couple of years ago, while I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday, speaks for itself. In my book anyway. :-)Regardless of the comments, by others or myself, this film deserves a chance, so if you've never seen it I heartily recommend watching it. I'm (pretty) sure you'll love it.