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Summary: Classic 80's Teen movie on a very poor DVD
Review: If you want to own this movie on DVD then you'll have to be prepared to pay an arm and a leg. It's only out on region 1, and has long since been deleted, so commands a very high price for no apparant reason other than the film itself - its certainly not for the extras - there aren't any.The film stars 80's starlet Molly Ringwald (Breakfast Club) and Anthony John Hall (Weird Science, Breakfast Club) and also reunites them with director John Hughes, also from "The Breakfast Club". Comparisions between the two cannot be helped. Personally I prefered "The Breakfast Club" but there must be many who disagree - both are good, assuming that you like that sort of thing. High School coming-of-age movies are after all pretty much of a muchness, as the recent spoof movie "Not Another Teen Movie" so aptly illustrates. Where both Hughes movies fall down on DVD is with the lack of extra features. "Sixteen Candles" is at least in widescreen, but that's all - there's no remastered 5.1 audio mix, no subtitles, no trailer, no cast biographies, no featurettes, no commentaries, no nothing. And if the other reviewers are to be believed then the music on the DVD isn't even the original soundtrack, supposedly due to rights issues. I say this because I'd never seen the film before I brought the DVD so don't know any different. If true, it'll certainly be interesting to see the proper soundtrack if and when it ever comes to DVD again. 2004 will mark the 20th anniversary of the film, so prehaps the time is right to ask Universal to consider a re-release with decent extras.
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Summary: "classic"
Review: I was in high school in the mid to late 80's, so you can imagine the memories that a movie like this can bring back to anyone who was in high school at that time. Who can forget such memorable lines as classic, the donger, or sofa city sweetheart. This movie is a pleasure to watch and is typical John Hughes, I hope everyone else enjoys it too!
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Summary: A childhood fave!
Review: I must have seen this movie a million times,and knew all the lines by heart!Who could ever forget "married?,yes married" and "lake big lake"!This price is unreal!I would never pay more than $25 for ANY dvd!GUESS WHAT: I saw this on dvd at [another store] about eight months ago for ten dollars!I could kick myself for not getting it then!I am sure it will be around for less!
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Summary: Great Movie But Ridiculous Price
Review: "16 Candles" is a classic 80's teen movie. In the days before teen movies became formulaic gross-out clones of one another, this film invented more quotable lines than can be listed in a single review. The disappointing thing about this DVD, aside from the inexplicably high price, is the fact that it offers no extras whatsoever, unless you count widescreen. I would pay more for this DVD than many films out there simply because I consider it a classic, but without even a couple of interviews thrown in (how hard would it be to get The Donger to sit down for fifteen minutes?), I wouldn't front the cash for this one.
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Summary: A funny yet poignant look at teenaged life
Review: For many of us who came of age in the glorious 1980s, especially geeky folks like myself, Molly Ringwald is an important part of our experience and memories. Pretty but not glamorous, Molly served as a beacon of sorts for me. Sixteen Candles is the first of a string of films in which Molly Ringwald dramatized the teen angst so many of us felt This is basically the story of Samantha (Molly), who must deal with the fact that her family forgets her 16th birthday while she is also suffering from the bad effects of a crush on a boy who seemingly doesn't know she exists. I love to rewatch Molly's movies every so often in order to capture some of those feelings of lovelorn giddiness that seemed to disappear in my 20s. This movie is very funny and does succeed in conveying the feelings of a confused teenager, yet it seems overblown in some places. For example, the whole Asian foreign exchange student character is far from needed, the degree to which teenaged partygoers wreck the host's home is extreme, the dental headpiece worn by a young Joan Cusack serves no purpose, and the farcical wedding of Samanth'a sister is pretty silly. I should say that Anthony Michael Hall as "the geek" is superb and almost steals the whole show, but for me this movie is all about Molly. Where this movie excels is in its portrayal of teenaged emotions and teenager-parent relations. The very notion that your parents might forget your sweet sixteenth birthday is downright traumatic. The scene between Samantha and her father late that night struck me as classic. Even though the father gets his daughter to open up to him, he does not understand what she is talking about when it should be obvious to anyone; his cliché responses to the real problem are typically useless parental words of support. Segments of the movie such as this are very real and connect on a personal level with the viewer. I would like to have seen more of this type of interaction, but the farcical elements of the movie dominate the screen and, in my opinion, make it less successful than it should have been. As for the music, the rescoring of the motion picture does have a negative impact on the viewing experience; there are still some cool 80s songs that bring back memories, but the new music pasted into the film is often too loud, inappropriate, and just plain wrong, especially for those of us who have watched this movie a number of times and plan to watch it again and again as we get older. All in all, though, this is a fun movie and a great way to rekindle your memories of young adulthood. I'm not sure that the present generation of young men and women will connect as strongly to this movie or to Molly Ringwald as I did, but I am sure they can at least get some great entertainment value out of it.
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Summary: sweet teen love
Review: Sixteen Candles is a classic 80's teen movie. Molly Ringwald plays the gawky 16 teen year old who is upset that her parents forgot her birthday. The one thing she really wants is to get noticed by Jake, her hunky crush. Molly shines in this role. 16 candles is one of the best John Hughes movies ever. If you hadn't seen this movie then you don't know what you are missing!!
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Summary: Love the movie but where is the original music?
Review: This is one of my favorite movies, but no one should pay [the high cost] new for this out of print movie. The music is not original to the movie because the studio lost the music rights. That's why it is out of print. So, my advice is this: wait till its comes out in its original form. And to those selling it for [the high cost], get a grip.
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Summary: sixteen candles
Review: This is one of the greatest movies ever! It is so funny!
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Summary: 80's extreme
Review: This movie does a great job of portraying the problems of a high school girl, without being dramatic, horrible, or scary. This movie is fun, and hilarious. We've all had a crush on someone that we thought we couldn't obtain, so this movie is something that we all can relate to. I loved it.
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Summary: Sixteen Candles
Review: With this film, we really got to know director John Hughes. He made films with a narrow audience focus. And, oh did he hit his target. This film also brought Molly Ringwald to stardom. With all the elements in place, John Hughes created films for the younger and mid teen. That's also who the stars were. SIXTEEN CANDLES focuses on a young girl who feels invisible. The boy she is infatuated with doesn't know she exists, even her family forgot her 16th birthday. The only attention she seems to get is the unwanted offerings of the geek, wonderfully played by child actor Anthony Michael Hall. (Watch for John Cusack as one of his henchmen.) But, with a little change of luck and a visiting Asian named Long Duck Dong, life starts to look up. Okay, it's not high drama but it did open the door for other films of the Hughes genre. Soon to come were THE BREAKFAST CLUB, FERRIS BUELERS DAY OFF and knockoffs like PRETTY IN PINK, ST ELMO'S FIRE and MORGAN STEWART'S COMING HOME.
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