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.
Steve Martin and Rick Moranis co-star as, respectively, a made man from the New York mafia currently in the witness protection program, and an FBI agent protecting him from the goombas that would have him whacked. Martin is sent to a picturesque small American town, so it's your standard fish out of water story, but because it's done very well this time, it works, it's funny and it feels relatively fresh. It all comes down to how the story is told, and this one is told well enough.
Of course, what it REALLY comes down to is if the movie is funny, and this one is. Even the material that shouldn't be all that funny, it actually works because of how skilled Martin and Moranis are at this sort of banter. The whole movie is full of great laughs and, at the very least, some good chuckles. This standard odd couple relationship, like the fish out of water plot, is made fresh and new by the cast and approach to the material.
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?
The movie has a really great look to it. The whole point of the film is the contrast between Martin's violent, urban upbringing, and the small town friendliness and beauty of his new environs, and the cinematography really does the trick. Martin's new home is really set in a gorgeous land of blue skies and green hills.
It may not be one of the greatest films ever made, but it's certainly one of Ephron's best, every bit as funny as When Harry Met Sally, but also focusing on more interesting subject matter than the same old dating jokes that don't really hold true for anyone out of their mid twenties.
Steve Martin and Rick Moranis co-star as, respectively, a made man from the New York mafia currently in the witness protection program, and an FBI agent protecting him from the goombas that would have him whacked. Martin is sent to a picturesque small American town, so it's your standard fish out of water story, but because it's done very well this time, it works, it's funny and it feels relatively fresh. It all comes down to how the story is told, and this one is told well enough.
Of course, what it REALLY comes down to is if the movie is funny, and this one is. Even the material that shouldn't be all that funny, it actually works because of how skilled Martin and Moranis are at this sort of banter. The whole movie is full of great laughs and, at the very least, some good chuckles. This standard odd couple relationship, like the fish out of water plot, is made fresh and new by the cast and approach to the material.
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?
The movie has a really great look to it. The whole point of the film is the contrast between Martin's violent, urban upbringing, and the small town friendliness and beauty of his new environs, and the cinematography really does the trick. Martin's new home is really set in a gorgeous land of blue skies and green hills.
It may not be one of the greatest films ever made, but it's certainly one of Ephron's best, every bit as funny as When Harry Met Sally, but also focusing on more interesting subject matter than the same old dating jokes that don't really hold true for anyone out of their mid twenties.
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