Summer Comedy 'What's the Worst That Could Happen' Starring Danny DeVito and Martin Lawrence Opens this Weekend
LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito go head-to-head in the new film "What's the Worse that Could Happen?" Lawrence plays a thief, and Devito, his billionaire victim. But things take a wickedly comic turn as the two funnymen play a game of one-upmanship. CNN's Paul Vercammen has more on the comic crime caper.</s>MARTIN LAWRENCE, ACTOR: Look, you caught me fair and square, but how about I walk out here, nothing taken, nothing harmed? How does that sound?</s>DANNY DEVITO, ACTOR: You stay right where you are, or I shoot you in the head. How does that sound?</s>PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: (voice-over): So begins the vicious cycle of thieving and plotting and revenge in "What's the Worst that Could Happen?" starring Danny DeVito and Martin Lawrence.</s>LAWRENCE: This is not the movie that's going to save the world. but go out and get a few laughs and just have fun with it.</s>VERCAMMEN: DeVito's character, the cut-throat businessman, takes a ring from Lawrence as the common thief.</s>DEVITO: Well, I didn't actually steal. Like here, this is a different thing. A guy comes into your house to steal from you. It's OK, you can do anything to that guy. That's not stealing. That's getting even.</s>VERCAMMEN: But time for true confessions. Lawrence admits, as a child, he once ripped off a candy bar.</s>LAWRENCE: It had peanuts and raisins in it. And I bit into it, and as soon as I bit into the chunky, do you know, I felt bad. And I took a half a chunky back to the store and it was I. I was him, he is I, I stole it. They said, wait here for the cops. I said, kiss my</s>VERCAMMEN: John Leguizamo played Lawrence's scheming accomplice, a master at phony accents. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN") JOHN LEGUIZAMO, ACTOR: How much for the whole building?</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: I'm not sure.</s>LEGUIZAMO: Don't they know? That's how we lost the last translator.</s>VERCAMMEN: Bernie Mac, Martin Lawrence's real-life pal, is in on the heists. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?")</s>LAWRENCE: Man, I feel like I'm getting robbed by everybody tonight.</s>BERNIE MAC, ACTOR: I'm supposed to be a friend of Martin, but this is the first movie I've ever been in with him. What kind of friend of that? I haven't even been on Martin's television show. He ran for six years, seven years. Did he ever invite me? Never.</s>VERCAMMEN: "What's the Worst that Could Happen?" takes many hair-raising turns. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?")</s>LAWRENCE: I'd like to say, power to the people. Let's rise up.</s>VERCAMMEN: Paul Vercammen, CNN Entertainment News, Hollywood.</s>SYDNEY: And "What's The Worst That Could Happen?" heads to theaters this weekend.