Armed and Dangerous

Armed and Dangerous (1986)

  • 14% of critics liked it
    (7 reviews)

  • 38% of users liked it
    (9,153 ratings)

In Armed and Dangerous, John Candy plays a cop who has been kicked off the force on a trumped up charge. Eugene Levy costars as a disbarred lawyer. The two outcasts take low-paying jobs as security officers at a company controlled by mob boss Robert Loggia. In their own stumblebum fashion, Candy and… More

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PG-13,
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Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 15, 1986 Wide
On DVD
Nov 12, 2002
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan

    Silly doings with Candy and Levy as inept security guards.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    It may not be armed, but it's dangerous alright.

  • Leonard Klady, Movie City News

    1.5

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    How could two amazingly FUNNY guys spend so much effort on a movie so bereft of laughs? Candy and Levy deserve much better, and they moved on to it after this junkpile.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Cassie H


    Funny,but not the greatest comedie!

  • Derek D


    A typical John Candy movie, co-starring Eugene Levy (before he decided to hop aboard the American Pie milktruck), Meg Ryan (before she decided to leave her marriage for a telephone-slinging Aussie), Robert Loggia, Duke from Rocky and Mr Strickland from Back To The Future. Really… More

  • Dean M


    Average John Candy & Eugence Levy comedy movie, not much funny, but I was affecting on my favourite actress, Meg Ryan.

  • Dann M


    John Candy and Eugene Levy are Armed and Dangerous in this quirky '80s buddy comedy. The story follows a disgraced ex-cop and an incompetent lawyer who become armed security guards that accidentally stubble across a major criminal operation. The plot's fairly thin and the… More

  • Doctor S


    Eugene Levy in assless chaps is the memory from this movie burned into my brain. You've been warned.

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