Rating: 
Summary: The Greatest
Review: Troop Beverly Hills is the funniest and greatest moovie ever made. The Beverly Hills Troop is looking for a new Wilderness Girl leader Hannah's mom Philis Nefler volunteers to be the new leader. meanwhile the head leaders assistant Velda Plender is trying to get rid of the troop. Mrs. Nefler is going through a divorce. So she takes the girls shopping and to get their nails done and they earn patches for it. Velda doesn't think that is right so she sends a spy to spy on Mrs. Nefler's troop. They are earning patches that wilderness girls do not earn. At the cookie fundraiser the troop that sells over 1,000 boxes gets to attend the annual Jamboree Troop Beverly Hills sells over 4,000 boxes and they end up winning the contest. Velda gets fired and ends up working at K-Mart.
Rating: 
Summary: Delightfully campy
Review: When this movie came out, myself and the other girls in my troop knew we had to see it. Although the acting was lax and the fashions were way out of our league, we liked the developing sense of sisterhood and the warmth and compassion each girl and leader showed towards each other. The assistant troop leader Annie is initally a spy who is supposed to doccument all of the allegedly horrible things the troop is doing, but gradually comes to realize that this woman is uniquely suited to reach these girls and does infact care for them as if they were her own daughters. Her transformation is one of the hidden joys of the film. By the end of the film, she is telling the former boss to take a hike. This group of girls had everything against them from the start, but managed to pull together and even help the (butch?)district manager who wanted to get rid of them. Although she says the BH troop can never be wilderness girls, her own (simmilary psychotic)troop ditches her----and the "imposters" are nice enough to save her after everything. Even though I quit girl scouts in my senior year of high school, I still love watching this movie every time it comes on. It would be a good adition to any collection of "girl power" movies, wuth one important reservation. Although this film needed a villaness to maintain interest, I am however concerned that she is portrayed as masculine and a robust mountain woman. Because it plays into sexist stereotyping, people should not get this movie if they are expecting a politically correct film.
Rating: 
Summary: Studio rips off public with lame standard screen TBH
Review: You don't need the plot of the minor classic Troop Beverly Hills from me, since many other reviews have already covered it well enough. Instead I'm just basically commenting on it here to whine and cry that it was NOT released on widescreen. What a ripoff! Yes, I'm thankful that Shelley's other films like Caveman and The Money Pit DID get released in wonderful widescreen around the same time, and Outrageous Fortune is due out as a widescreener on May 6 - but why then was Troop Beverly Hills relegated to putrid pan-and-scan? And where do most of these hunks of junk soon end up? That's right - the giveaway bin for duds - your generic $5.99 "special" at your local Boxmart store. You know, where you find all the other weak standard screen butcherings of everything from Doc Hollywood to Spies Like Us. I think Shelley deserves much better than this, and the same goes for her performance in Losin' It, which became another travesty of DVD justice that wound up on the pan-and-scan cutting room floor. (Thankfully her excellent tawdry turn in Night Shift also survived on widescreen, at least.) I'll quote another reviewer named Mike from this same website, who I don't know but am in complete agreement with: "...4 Stars for the DVD - and that's only because it's finally been released on DVD. It has nothing to do with it being a bare bones release (no special features for this 80s CLASSIC!), but rather it's ONLY been released in Full Screen! WHY!?" Yes - WHY indeed? It costs virtually nothing more to leave it in its original widescreen format, and if anything it's a lot more trouble and money to blow up and crop off almost half the picture of every scene of a film! Mike continues: "DVDs are more or less for collectors, and true collectors definitely prefer widescreen! I do anyway, and I'm kinda sad there is no widescreen presentation." You said it all, Mike! But I was more than sad. I was devastated! So I advise all Shelley Long fans to rush out and buy Caveman, The Money Pit, Night Shift and Outrageous Fortune. But hold off on buying Losin' It and Troop Beverly Hills until they give us our well-deserved W-I-D-E-S-C-R-E-E-N !!!
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