the crew or ( 2000 ) ( out of four ) michael dinner new mob parody and the crew and just isn not funny . it be a plain and simple a that . the movie be so engrossed in it concept that it forget the concept be not what make people laugh and but the execution of those concept . various humor contain within the film provide one liner and visual sight gag evolve from age and death and sex and and testosterone and not many that be effective . while i enjoy michael dinner direction style and some of the nifty camera angle and he fail miserably on bring inspiration to the production . the crew be one of the bad comedy of the year . the film take place in south beach and miami and where four old men be about to be evict from their apartment due to rise rent cost . little do the landlord know and however and the senior citizen use to be slick and wiseguy criminal bobby bartellemro ( richard dreyfus ) and joey bat pistella ( burt reynolds ) and mike the brick donatelli ( dan hedaya ) and tony the mouth donato . these guy be begin to realize life be pass them by and plan to concoct a scheme to place them in their past shoe . the movie have little development of anything . the character and who be potentially interesting and be introduce with short and specific scene feature each in a disjointed incidence in which they react to while their various behavior be what portray their personality . because of the lack of decent preface and the character intention be unclear throughout the story . thus the story struggle to pull itself through a brief running time that feel much long than it be . the producer seemingly inject sight gag along the way for commercial appearance and and the one that be funny already have be milk to death in tv ad and theatrical trailer . bobby and joey and mike and and tony come up with an idea to save their home . they steal a body from the local morgue and blow it head off with a shotgun and and leave it in the lobby of their hotel and thus the seemingly murderous event will lower the popularity of the hotel and keep the rent in check . several other key character come into play . there be a south american drug lord name raul ventanna ( miguel sandoval ) and who think someone try to send him a threatening message and ex lover and detective olivia neal ( carrie anne moss ) and steve menteer ( jeremy piven ) who be investigate the homicide and believe the old men to be potential suspect and and a local prostitute or stripper and ferris ( jennifer tilly ) and who blackmail the four guy into murder her stepmother and pepper ( lainie kazan ) . the plot be not interesting or engage mainly because i never care about any of the unexplained character . this be the kind of movie in which the idea be potentially amusing and but the implementation of those idea be accomplish quite poorly . the plot be frustrate and inject stale contrivance like an estrange relationship between a father and daughter that feel trite and boring . this movie be like a lacking mafia with a third of the energy . in a movie as deprive a the crew an inquisitive audience member anxiously await the conclusion and not only because they be overcome with pleasure that the pitiful waste of time be finally over and but also because the end usually bring a sense of accomplishment to a production and regardless of how horrible . however and that sense of accomplishment be also absent from the crew . this film end resolve itself in a fashion that be entirely unconvincing and abstract . if you be look for a funny movie about old men do thing out of their league and go see the funny and poignant space cowboys represent a movie that show just how horrible this one be .