What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)

Regisseur:

Sam Weisman

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Donald E. Westlake (novel)
Matthew Chapman (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

1. Juni 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie | Krimi

Werbezeile:

It takes a thief to nail a crook.

Plot:

A rich man catches a thief burglarizing his home and steals the thief's lucky ring, who then tries to get it back.

Plot Keywords:

Senate Hearing | Con Artist | Vulgarity | Washington D.C. | Senate

Nutzerkommentare:

Hackneyed sitcom material

Besetzung

Martin Lawrence	...	Kevin Caffery
Danny DeVito	...	Max Fairbanks
John Leguizamo	...	Berger
Glenne Headly	...	Gloria Sidell
Carmen Ejogo	...	Amber Belhaven
Bernie Mac	...	Uncle Jack
Larry Miller	...	Earl Radburn
Nora Dunn	...	Lutetia Fairbanks
Richard Schiff	...	Walter Greenbaum
William Fichtner	...	Detective Alex Tardio
Ana Gasteyer	...	Ann Marie
Sascha Knopf	...	Tracey Kimberly
Siobhan Fallon	...	Edwina
GQ	...	Shelly Nix
Lenny Clarke	...	Windham

Alternativ:

Schlimmer geht's immer! (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language and sexual content.

Länge:

94 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | American Sign Language

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | France:U | Germany:6 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #37634)

Drehorte:

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Firma:

Hyde Park Films

Dies und das:

Kevin's house is the same firehouse used in "Spenser: For Hire" (1985) and the Boston portion of "The Real World" (1992).

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: Kevin leaves in the boat after having only untied one of the two lines securing it to the dock.

Dialogzitate:

Tracey Kimberly: Massaging you is like kneading dough. And as for the sex, let me be honest. It's like sleeping with a damp sheep!

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Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt The Fly (1958)

Soundtrack:

Happy Feelin's

Hackneyed sitcom material

Martin Lawrence has talent. Danny DeVito has talent. John Leguizamo has talent. Bernie Mac has talent. And where did all this talent go? Absolutely freakin' nowhere!!!

What's the worst that could happen? Write a silly, meaningless script that's not even worthy of receiving the green light as a sitcom pilot and throw in all this great talent to the filmmakers' disposal. The only scene where I recall laughing is the opening where Martin is speaking to a woman at the auction house, and says that the painting on the wall is as fake as her glasses. For the rest of the movie, I chuckled, but even chuckles were few and far between.

Why did Danny DeVito, who we all loved as Louie DePalma on "Taxi," even consider starring in this clunker? All he does is ape around, struggling to hide his embarrassment of being in the movie in the first place. As for Lawrence, he's forced to succumb to the same lame schtick he did in "Blue Streak"--another so-called comedy with a terrible script. Since there's no funny material, he tries to make the audience laugh with stupid, over-the-top antics. Bernie Mac has one funny line, which was given away in the trailers, but I still found funny. Bernie's a great comic with great potential who simply has to find the right outlet. He hasn't been in too many movies, and if he ever decides to commit himself to a career in film, this is not the way to do it.

There's so many other talents that I failed to mention: Larry Miller, Glenne Headly, Ana Gasteyer, William Fichtner. Speaking of good ol' Bill Fichtner, who thought his character--the flamboyant detective dressed like Crockett from "Miami Vice"--would be funny? Crazy, it is. But funny--not! And who thought that scene where Martin Lawrence and John Leguizamo pretend to be Arabs--talking in a gibberish dialect--would be funny? This movie tries and tries and tries to be quirky, but it never succeeds in the comedy department.

I have to say, that chick who played Martin's love interest is really, really hot! I hope to see her in more movies! Also that chick who plays DeVito's mistress.

I was totally bored during the majority of this flat, lamebrained comedy and I hope every actor in the cast regret making this crappy movie and cross it off their resumes. I'd love to see DeVito and Lawrence is a movie together--I think they have great potential as a comedy team--but make sure the script is FUNNY!

My score: 3 (out of 10)