10 Films You Loved As A Teen, But Should Never Watch Again

4. Jane Austen's Mafia!

Touchstone Pictures

Jim Abrahams did some great work in the 80s and 90s, delivering slapstick comedies like Hot Shots, Airplane, and the Naked Guns films, which have become emblematic of comedies from those eras. Surely a similarly styled spoof of Mafia movies, reflecting on all the great gangster flicks of the previous two decades, was a recipe for success?

For a naive young teen, it was. You could happily overlook all the hollow, poorly-punned references to legendary crime films (which you probably hadn't seen by that age, anyway), and just laugh hysterically with your dad at the vomiting gags, kids getting shoved up donkey's asses, and slapstick of the "slipping-on-a-banana-peel-then-flying-through-the-air' variety.

Looking back now, Mafia's humour lacks the sharpness of previous Abrahams films, and the presence of a Charlie Sheen or a Leslie Nielsen (who appears only briefly) to hold it all together.

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