This could have been a biting satire on the cost of living in Italy but it somehow fails to deliver, maybe because it took such a long time to make its point. The plot has moments of inspired black humour but too often these are diluted by cheap slap-stick moments. And the cheap slap-stick scenes outnumber the good scenes.
Highlights are the bank robbery scenes (there are so many bank robberies that the tellers just carry on chatting casually as though it were a daily event), the three cohabiting couples arguing over who is sleeping with whom that night and the scenes where morals are swayed by the promise of small financial gains.
Paolo Villaggio is undeniably funny (in a typical role of a downtrodden office worker which was his specialty), but a tighter plot could have transformed this film.
Highlights are the bank robbery scenes (there are so many bank robberies that the tellers just carry on chatting casually as though it were a daily event), the three cohabiting couples arguing over who is sleeping with whom that night and the scenes where morals are swayed by the promise of small financial gains.
Paolo Villaggio is undeniably funny (in a typical role of a downtrodden office worker which was his specialty), but a tighter plot could have transformed this film.