"Made" is money... without the swing

"Swingers" fans rejoice; Jon Favreau is back in style with "Made." But don't expect the two movies to be carbon copies of each other. They're about as different as my last two girlfriends.\n"Made" is a slow-paced movie, centered on the dialogue between Ricky (Vince Vaughn) and Bobby (Favreau). The duo plays two high school chums who are trying to install themselves in the local mob outfit. They're enlisted to fly to New York as a sort of test to prove themselves capable.\nThe test is rather simple. It's nothing but a money drop off. But the unsuccessfully glib Ricky manages to turn the entire escapade into a rather complicated event. Ricky is essentially no different than Vaughn's character in "Swingers." The only real difference is that, rather than being cool, all his talk gets him is dirty looks and black eyes from Bobby.\nI can't be too sure what it was that annoyed me about Vaughn's character. It might've been the insistence that a gun was necessary for the job, or maybe the way every other scene somehow evolved into Ricky and Bobby duking it out over Ricky's stupidity. Either way, I couldn't take much more of him after the first 40 minutes or so.\nBut still, the movie as a whole managed to be entertaining, even memorable. The one-liners aren't as frequent as they are in "Swingers." There isn't any of the fashionable dialogue. No one calls anyone "money." But the dialogue is fun, alive and kicking; it just doesn't take the plot anywhere.\nSo here's the rub: if you don't mind a movie that doesn't care much about getting where it's going, and if you don't mind seeing Vaughn make an ass of himself, and if, for whatever reason, you really miss Dustin Diamond from "Saved by the Bell," then I recommend you see "Made." At the very least, you'll get to see Peter Falk say the "f" word so many times your mom will finally stop watching those "Columbo" reruns, and that's got to be worth something.