A romantic comedy that continues the Hollywood trend of trying to find humor among organized crime. The true test of any romantic comedy is that it has to make you laugh, while tugging gently at your heartstrings. Mickey Blue Eyes manages to do both, although you will also cringe in a few places instead of laughing.

Hugh Grant, who was seen earlier this year in the very successful romantic comedy Notting Nill is Michael, an art auction house manager who is very much in love with his girlfriend of three months, Gina. Jeanne Tripplehorne is Gina and she rejects Michael's marriage proposal because her father is a mobster. James Caan is the mobster father and while he is okay, I would have preferred Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro or Joe Pesci in the role of the father. Of course DeNiro has just done Analyze This, another Mafia comedy, so he wasn't available for Mickey Blue Eyes.

Gina agrees to marry Michael, after he promises to involve her in every dealing he has with her family, so they won't try to corrupt him. Of course, the family leader, an excellent performance by Burt Young (who we all know best as Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law) somehow manages to involve Michael in a family plot and it gets wild from there.

The funny stuff in Mickey Blue Eyes is funny. But there is a violent turn and it doesn't fit in well with the affable, hapless type that Grant has become so adept at portraying. As always seems the case, Tripplehorn's considerable talents get wasted in a small part that she does well with. The rest of the actors are the usual "suspects" one finds in films about the "Mob".

If you want a few laughs Mickey Blue Eyes will deliver them.