Sticking to great comedy in a way no one else can, Mel Brooks plays a wealthy business man who finds himself getting suckered into a bet with a rival business over the worst slum area of L.A. They both want to develop on it and both own half. Mel agrees to living as a homeless person in this neighborhood. If he can make it 30 days without his wallet or anything else, then the rival will sign over his half of the property. It's full of visual gags, one liners and even some hea... (Full plot summary below)
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Sticking to great comedy in a way no one else can, Mel Brooks plays a wealthy business man who finds himself getting suckered into a bet with a rival business over the worst slum area of L.A. They both want to develop on it and both own half. Mel agrees to living as a homeless person in this neighborhood. If he can make it 30 days without his wallet or anything else, then the rival will sign over his half of the property. It's full of visual gags, one liners and even some heart warming scenes. Mel's character learns a lot along the way.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt has its laughs, but it’s a more thoughtful film, more softhearted toward its characters. It’s warm and poignant. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe movie takes a while to hit its stride, and its conclusion is fairly slapdash, but somewhere in between are some of the funniest bits of low slapstick Brooks has ever come up with, and an overall uncloying sweetness helps to save much of the rest. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrBut if Brooks doesn't get the sting of reality he's looking for in Life Stinks, he does succeed with the film's fantasy elements-most memorably, a dance sequence set to Cole Porter's Easy to Love and performed by Warren and Brooks in a colorful used-clothing warehouse. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannIt's a risky movie, and an uneven one. But the impulses behind it are darker and stronger than in most of his previous comedies. Good or bad--and Life Stinks definitely has a weak, undeveloped side--I liked it. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA slapstick vaudeville about the poor and homeless? Inadvertently Mel Brooks gives the dangerous impression that homelessness is cute and that Downtown LA is filled with adorable and eccentric people who "just happen" to be roofless. |
| The Seattle TimesJohn HartlMel Brooks' Life Stinks is a fitfully funny vaudeville caricature about life on Skid Row. Premise of a rich man who chooses to live among the poor for a spell feels sorely undeveloped, and suffers from the usual gross effects and exaggerations. |
| Rolling StoneAndy GreeneLife Stinks isn't nearly as bad as legend suggests, and its even won a tiny cult following. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinEven more dispiriting than the film's silly moments are its pious ones. Only at rare moments does Life Stinks offer much in the way of surprise or grace. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordLife stinks, Brooks' character stinks and the film, after all the Brooks magic in the past, stinks. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumLesser Mel Brooks has some funny bits if homelessness is funny at all |
