MAFIA!

(Buena Vista)

Never mind that the on-screen title remains Jane Austen's Mafia -- Jim Abrahams has put a "hit" out. This parody has fun with 'em all: The Godfather, GoodFellas, even a little Il postino. Lloyd Bridges, in his last role, is brilliantly out to lunch as the Mafia boss; the rest of the cast (including Jay Mohr as the boss's son and Christina Applegate as the WASP girlfriend) play it straight and solid. Abrahams falls back a little too much on gross-out humor, but he does create an intelligent goofiness through clever ideas, terrific sight gags, and terrible puns.