Since the initial release of Wall Street Movie, Oliver Stone’s giant-sized 1987 fable, it’s been said a million times: Greed Is Good. With those three words, Michael Douglas, as uber-corporate raider Gordon Gekko, defined the tone of not just a single movie but perhaps of an entire decade (even though that’s a paraphrase of his actual quote).

The phrase, now famous via Douglas’s Oscar-winning performance, was initially uttered by Ivan Boesky, the 1980s business biggie who thrived on doing whatever it took to become rich, and paid the price as a result. Director/co-writer Stone, with Douglas at the epicenter, erects an overdone behemoth of a movie that, like Boesky himself, is an ageless — and, at times, clichéd — cautionary tale.

But that doesn’t mean Wall Street lacks entertainment value. Charlie Sheen, playing the film’s protagonist, and Douglas play off one another with the kind of energy and gumption you’d expect from two guys that want to eat the market for lunch on Friday and crap it out by Monday morning.

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