We're No Angels (1989)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Redundant and unnecessary.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Honestly, this film was funny as ****, seriously Robert De Niro and Sean Penn were just brilliant together. I liked how this was a different story because I never even heard of any films about convicts pretending to be priests. Never in ages did i have a film giving me laughing pills, it was just unbelievable!I had an idea that Demi Moore was involved in this but I never knew straight away that the woman asking for her deaf child to heal directly to the convicts was actually her! She didn't even look like herself, she actually looked like someone new in the movie industry! I love this film, i love the storyline and I loved everything about it! Great movie to watch!

This movie was painful to watch. I'm not sure if it is just because it hasn't aged well but seriously I have never been so disappointed in a movie choice from Robert De Niro or Sean Penn until this moment. And also it was supposed to be a comedy. I thought I was in for an old-time laugh out loud comedy but not so; I didn't laugh once through the entire thing.It looks like from the other comments that the only people who enjoyed this movie have some sort of religious affiliation or belief. To me that is not good enough. A movie with religious ties does not automatically make it a good movie, a solid script, plot, cast and crew make it a good movie.Final recommendation: You have been warned, this movie is terrible and not worth your time.

Got this DVD as a birthday gift and watched it.It is like "Heaven Help Us" in the sense that the nuances of the religion really are key to the comedic effect best portrayed by a look or a line that is subtle.Sure it could be better but depending on Budget and schedules not every movie can be Titanic, Longest Day, Gone with the wind,etc.If you like Deniro, or Penn...you'll like it.If you are from a Catholic or parochial upbringing you will like it.I'm not Siskel or Ebert; but I liked it.Close to the Canadien border and being set as other than the height of summer I'm surprised there we're ANY daylight scenes. There is a little girl in the Movie who sort of steals the show,A Demi Moore that supports this plot as it builds and Sean Penn makes you believe the ending.If on TV or available for rental; watch this movie for a relaxed comedy.

Once we are past the opening scenes set in what seems to be a coal mine doubling as a prison, this film can be enjoyed as a fable. Many films should be prefaced with the phrase 'once upon a time' and this one is no exception. Producer DeNiro could not get Stan and Ollie so he put himself in the latter role, and chose Penn for the part of Laurel. We keep expecting to see Penn break out into Laurelish tears at any moment, and it is only the sound of the water that prevents us from hearing DeNiro shouting "whooaaaaaaa" as he slides down the falls. And there are so many times I expected Ollie to swat Stanley, but it never happens.Left to their mugging, my rating might be higher, but somehow inserting Demi into the mix spoils something. If the time were 1930, the little girl who plays a key role would have had a much older looking mother, or at least one who looked more bedraggled by her life in that wilderness.Then the storyline takes a disastrous violent turn just after the statute seems to have produced another miracle. Such a scene worked in Some Like It Hot when the killer jumped out of the cake. Here it ruins the mood that is being set. Surely there was another way to get the girl into the water.I have no problem, however, watching it again.