As a comic source, the gangster movie has been mined by at least three superior satires—Prizzi's Honor, Married To The Mob, and The Freshman—and provided enough grist to extend the chillingly unfunny careers of Dom DeLuise, Joe Piscopo, and Jim Breuer. All of which leaves Mafia!, the latest sophomoric parody from Hot Shots! director Jim Abrahams, to pick over an already rotted corpse. Originally titled Jane Austen's Mafia! until it was discovered that many Americans didn't get the joke (or, more likely, didn't find it funny), the film takes similar care in spoofing the most obvious moments from The Godfather and GoodFellas, only to congratulate its audience for picking up on the references. Jay Mohr and Christina Applegate play Al Pacino and Diane Keaton to Lloyd Bridges' Marlon Brando in a plot that does just enough to move them from one comic setpiece to another, borrowing heavily from Casino, with the occasional Godfather II-inspired flashback to the old country. But mostly, Mafia! throws out hundreds of lowbrow gags, whether they have anything to do with gangsters or not. Abrahams' targets include such sure-fire classics as O.J. Simpson, Showgirls, hilarious-looking world leaders (Castro, Saddam Hussein, The Dalai Lama), and a flatulent Italian mother (Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis). A few laughs stick, but not enough to make up for the bathetic sight of Bridges, in his last film role, mugging his way through one ill-timed pratfall after another.