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Mariah Skylight |
Mariah Makes Good in Mob Movie Mariah
Carey may have found her calling at last in films. Instead of carrying a
movie as a heroine, she actually excels at being a tough-talking barroom
girl, sort of a Thelma Ritter for the new
millennium. Let's put it this
way: If Cheers were ever made into a feature film,
Carey would be hands-down the best choice to play Carla. In David
Anspaugh's extremely misguided mob movie Wise Girls, Carey
is third to Mira Sorvino and Melora
Walters. She doesn't have responsibility for the whole movie, and
this time — as opposed to the god-awful Glitter — it
works. Carey looks relaxed and comfortable as she plays a savvy waitress
in an upscale Staten Island mob joint. Even though she tends to wear skimpy
outfits as usual, her line delivery is sharp and she manages to get the right
laughs. She shows good comedic timing in places where you wouldn't expect her
to get it right. Unfortunately, Wise Girls is
really awful, a terrible mob stereotype movie that pales considerably next to
The Sopranos. And The Godfather? Fuggeddaboutit. I
don't understand what's happened to Mira Sorvino, or how she
picks these turkeys. One after another, her choices of films are atrocious.
All this after a much-deserved Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite back
in 1995. Sorvino's dad spoke out about
Italian-American stereotyping in films, and certainly this movie — which
raises just about every crude Mafia reference it can think of — is guilty of
just that. Nearly every word out of Carey's mouth is the f-word. Still,
Mariah may have found her forte with Wise Girls, and now it's her
handlers' turn to find more roles like this — wisecracking, world-weary,
street-savvy people. And no, Carey doesn't sing in the film, although
there's quite a big soundtrack. That's just as well — there are no
distractions for her here. Courtesy of FOX News |
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