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 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 ShadetreeDad ★

Idiotic, unpleasant, & unfunny. A perfect complement to the Coronavirus. Please stay away for everyone’s sake.
Review by Joe ★★★

Flypaper is a stupid fun heist movie with a great cast and meh writing. Like many films about dumb criminals I found myself shouting "why don't you just shoot him now?" a lot, but if you don't take the plot too seriously it's still a fun ride. Sometimes the characters get too cartoonish or the story gets too convoluted, but at the end of the day it was still funny and fast-paced enough to keep my attention.
Review by Caleb McCandless ★

This doesn't feel like a movie so much as an excuse to create a few jobs. You know, like one of those Canadian tax shelter movies from the 1980s.
Tonally incoherent, Flypaper segues from moments of slapstick comedy, to deadly violence, to jokey banter with little to no regard for how an audience may actually react to what they're seeing unfold on screen. In addition to these tonal inconsistencies, the actual image looks like garbage: everything is just a hair too dark, a shade or two off of what would be - if not pleasing to look at - bearable, and everyone looks sick. Patrick Dempsey, who I've found extremely charming in films like Loverboy and In the Mood, is…

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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 ★★★

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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.
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 Arnav Sethi ★★½

Hakuna Matata motherf**ker indeed!
Just laugh at the movie's stupidity and then move on. Or atleast try to.
Review by Wanderley Caloni

Apenas o fato da direção de arte de Assalto em Dose Dupla tentar fazer lembrar os detalhes do banco de Um Dia de Cão chega a parecer uma ofensa, pois enquanto o clássico de Sidney Lumet tenta fazer rir através do inusitado em um assalto, mas sempre se lembrando que todos os envolvidos são seres humanos, o roteiro de Jon Lucas e Scott Moore (ambos de Se Beber Não Case) cria constrangimentos a partir de estereótipos que cria, como se apenas isso fosse motivo de risadas, o que de fato se comprova, pois a maioria das piadas se limita a apenas isso.
Review by fernanda

nao prestei muita atenção mas minha mae riu bastante,,,,, enfim movie nights em família são só essas pérolas desses filme.......
Review by jessamynj ★★★½

I went into this knowing nothing more than the synopsis and it's actually really good? Why didn't it get more attention when it came out? Huh, well, it's an enjoyable heist/mystery movie.