by Hal Erickson
synopsis
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 Levy uncover a smuggling operation masterminded by Loggia. Meg Ryan also shows up in an early leading role.
characteristics
- Bumbling Cops
- Nothing Goes Right
- Mob
- Mafia
- Gang
- Yakuza
- Pillage
- On-the-run
- Police
- Security-police
- Union [labor Union]
- Security-guard
- Raid
- Military
- Plunder
