Flypaper

2011 Directed by Rob Minkoff

Two sets of bank robbers. One very sticky heist.

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Patrick Dempsey Ashley Judd Tim Blake Nelson Mekhi Phifer Matt Ryan Jeffrey Tambor John Ventimiglia Pruitt Taylor Vince Curtis Armstrong Rob Huebel Adrian Martinez Natalia Safran Octavia Spencer Eddie Matthews Rob Boltin James DuMont Joseph Nemmers Victor Palacios Raymond Rivera Crystal Kung Tamara Birkemoe Judy Durning

Alternative Titles

Untitled Bank Heist Comedy, Le regole della truffa, Atraco por duplicado, Bankcsapda, 捕蠅紙, El gran robo, Hold Up$, שוד משותף, El Gran Robo

comedy mystery crime

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Review by lauren ★

lauren from letterboxd be like watch acclaimed great films or the garbage thirst watch for the guy who plays constantine fo today
Review by ScreeningNotes ★

"Give one blow job in a prison shower and you never live it down."
From the writers of The Hangover, Flypaper, like its more popular contemporary cousin, is an unapologetically dumb heist comedy.
It wants really badly to be a funny version of Inside Man, but instead it's more like a stupid version of Ocean's Eleven. It's admirable that it doesn't have any interest in being PC, but it also doesn't use that irreverence to get anywhere special, and it's far too purposeless to be able to work with so many fundamentally unlikable characters. It drops race and sexuality cards far too freely, uses the word "retarded" without reservation, and even unironically describes a woman as "pretty rapable."
McDreamy gives…
Review by Dawson Joyce ★★½

It's arguably one of the better scripts The Hangover writers Jon Lucas & Scott Moore have pumped out, but that's not saying much as Flypaper is essentially a raunchy Inside Man/Clue-hybrid with flat jokes and a predictable twist, despite the best efforts of a terrific cast.
Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★½

¨It´s like extra sad when a hot chick dies. When an ugly chick dies, it´s like, their life probably sucked anyway, so it´s no big deal.¨
The only thing Flypaper had going for it (beside my love for Ashley Judd) was that it was written by the screenwriters who brought us The Hangover, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Despite my love for The Hangover, I really hated the script here. I found the film incredibly stupid; the performances extremely over the top and the jokes didn’t really work. Flypaper is a terrible comedy that makes any Adam Sandler movie look like a masterpiece. I thought the entire film was ridiculous and a mess from the very opening scene. The comedy…
Review by Kevin Cormier ★★

I love a good heist movie, and this one tries to hard to be as twisty as possible and a bit to comedic for me especially for a heist. Littered with a great ensemble cast including Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Octavia Spencer and Tim Blake Nelson.
While parts were enjoyable it quickly became grating rather than fun. Although the funny aspects were perfectly performed by Nelson and Pruitt Taylor Vince, overall it just didn’t work that well in my opinion. Should have been a full on comedy as that was the best aspect.
Review by tlgcaldeira ★★★

Pretty entertaining, which is basically what it’s supposed to be, so it’s pretty nice
Review by nomenclature ★★★★½ 1

In the grand tradition of The Whole Nine Yards, this seismically shifts between moronic and genius on a dime, leading overall to a highly entertaining and zany siege-heist romp with the best OCD detective since Zero Effect. A must-have for your Ashley Judd prestige collection.
Review by Michael Mahoney ½

Great cast in a stupid film. Lower quality then a Hallmark TV movie!
Review by Hannah K ★★★

This is a huge contrast to the last movie I watched, Mulholland Drive, in that this one is the most fun if you don't analyze it too much. :-) It's a light, silly heist movie with a fun mystery that's really enjoyable to watch unravel. The characters are entertaining, if none of them is very deeply developed. It's a very fun fluffy hour and a half.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Flypaper > The Core
Flypaper < Sleeping Beauty
Flypaper < An Affair to Remember
Flypaper > Apollo 13
Flypaper > The Dresser
Flypaper < Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Flypaper < Wreck-It Ralph
Flypaper > National Lampoon's Vacation
Flypaper < The Magnificent Ambersons
Flypaper < The Kid
Flypaper > The Hangover
Final spot: #915 out of 2280, right above The Hangover, which is really fun because apparently the writers for this are the same as they are for The Hangover. So apparently their writing is similarly interesting for me here.
Review by chloe 💓 ★★½

i don't know why like no one has seen this but it was a lot of fun lmao
Review by Andrés Correa ★★½ 7

I'm not really a comedy fan so my reviews are always low for those movies. With that said this movie was super entertaining, it is like watching a clue movie that takes place on a bank instead of a house and is full of comedy. I would recommend it to anyone who likes comedy and mystery together.
Review by suttercain ★★

Convoluted in a dumb way. The cast is solid and gives an effort, but it's wasted on stale material.

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Review by rhaenys24 ★½

No cualquiera se banca esta porquería por vos @Patrick Dempsey
Review by Kevin Cormier ★★

I love a good heist movie, and this one tries to hard to be as twisty as possible and a bit to comedic for me especially for a heist. Littered with a great ensemble cast including Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Octavia Spencer and Tim Blake Nelson.
While parts were enjoyable it quickly became grating rather than fun. Although the funny aspects were perfectly performed by Nelson and Pruitt Taylor Vince, overall it just didn’t work that well in my opinion. Should have been a full on comedy as that was the best aspect.
Review by tlgcaldeira ★★★

Pretty entertaining, which is basically what it’s supposed to be, so it’s pretty nice
Review by suttercain ★★

Convoluted in a dumb way. The cast is solid and gives an effort, but it's wasted on stale material.
Review by civex

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Flypaper (2011)
This is a very funny movie directed by Rob Minkoff and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Tim Blake Nelson and Jeffrey Tambor were the only actors I was familiar with, but the starring roles were played by Patrick Dempsey (as Tripp, our hero) and Ashley Judd (as Kaitlin, our heroine).
The big picture is that a trio of professional bank robbers have paid off the bank's security expert to bypass the alarms but not, for some reason, the security for the vault. They enter just before closing time through a door on the roof. At the same time, two redneck yokels enter through the front door to pilfer the bank's ATM machines, which, again for some…
Review by kate ★★★

patrick dempsey .... :)
Review by carlossnorlax ★★½

Mantequilla y mermelada son mis hijos descarriados
Review by kraziemagnet ★★★

Super cute obsessive disorder. That would never be the case in real life.
Review by ArthurOgg ★★★

caracas
Review by yasmin ★

ashley looks so pretty i don’t even care how bad this was
Review by Dutchguy18 ★★★

The only thing the movie has going for it is the mystery on who ''vicellous drum'' really is.
Review by BenAfflecked ★★

Didn’t know the director of The Lion King made a heist movie.
It’s clearly a Ocean’s Eleven wannabe or more precisely a Soderbergh kind of comedy. It failed on almost all aspects.
It’s hard to do, being funny but not too stupid, not too caricatural. And at the same trying to be charming and have a twist at the end.
One of the problem is that twist because you see it coming after 5 minutes but the movie tries to be Charade as well. And the screenplay is too dumb to make it happen because the final twist gets in the way of the rom com it tries to achieve so it comes out of nowhere and it’s nor charming at all because it’s been awhile that Mcdreamy is getting on our nerves.