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Summary: A hilarious and well-crafted story
Review: "One Crazy Summer", staring John Cusack and Demi Moore, is one of the best movies to crawl out of the eighties. It is a thoughtful coming-of-age/romance story in which a high school graduate tries desparately to find his place in a seemingly loveless world. Don't let the comedy and the cheese fool you. This movie is seriously good.
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Summary: For John Cusack fans
Review: As a person who once half-seriously considered staging a summer John Cusack film festival, I think "One Crazy Summer" epitomises John at his cheesy '80s misfit-meet-dreamgirl phase. And let's face it, that's when we all first fell in love with his pitful, yet touching antics. John added touches to such roles that Andrew McCarthy just couldn't replicate (despite his box-office appeal) and is no doubt the reason behind his more enduring career.And although I love his films now, with their high-impact explosions (Con Air) and intellectual themes (Con Air, again), "One Crazy Summer" will always hold a soft spot in my heart, as I recall staying up late one early '90s summer night, to watch it on TV with another John fan, drinking beer and reminiscing about our halycon days of teenage ansgt in those fashion-challenged, but endearing '80s. As a triptych (excuse spelling) with "Better off Dead" and "The Sure Thing", what '80s nostalgic could ask for more? Thanks John. In fact, I feel like going to rent them all out right now.
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Summary: Cult but not classic
Review: Don't get sucked in by your love for John Cusack! Although this is another case of a loveseeking boy-next-door that every girl wants, the cheese factor kills any 80's value this movie might have.
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Summary: One wacky decade!
Review: Here's something I guarantee you will never see on a film festival marquee: "Tonight:Savage Steve Holland: An Auteur's Retrospective". Okay--maybe...in France. Alright--most likely... at an Eighties Theme Party. "One Crazy Summer" is another typically silly yet likeable 80's cinematic slopfest of the "Caddyshack" variety.A young John Cusack plays the mostly reactive Bill Murray character here, wryly observing the "wacky" behavior (and shameless camera mugging) of various 80's niteclub comics like Bobcat Goldthwaite, Taylor Negron and Rich Hall. Demi Moore gives an appealing performance, actually showing more acting promise at this stage of her career(before she started to take herself too seriously).Unintentional laughs abound during some sloppy lip-synching scenes where Demi, wearing her folk singer duds and strumming her acoustic guitar, somehow sounds more like a rockin' Pat Benatar (and gets an electric guitar sound out of that acoustic!)Good mindless fun.
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Summary: Were you that little fat boy?
Review: Holy cow, do I love this movie. "Look! The craziness!" This is one of those movies that played endlessly on HBO, and I remembered it quite fondly. One day I threw it in the VCR and surprised myself by laughing almost nonstop through the whole thing. Sure, it seems a cookie-cutter comedy from the eighties, and it is, but look! the craziness! The brilliance of the movie is how it's situations keep slowly escalating into pure comic insanity. Sure everybody remembers Bobcat Goldthwait rampaging in a Godzilla costume, but the seeds for the scene were presented about fifteen minutes ago and there was an uninterrupted continuity that took us from there to here. This is pretty amazing for a "cookie-cutter" comedy. Really, it's this sense of mayhem that keeps bringing me back to the movie. Mayhem. That's what I want out of comedies, and this is one of its epitomes. This and GREMLINS 2. But who cares about that? This movie brings the funny. What more could you ask for? No thanks to all the cute and fuzzy bunnies in the world.
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Summary: Were you that little fat boy?
Review: Holy cow, do I love this movie. "Look! The craziness!" This is one of those movies that played endlessly on HBO, and I remembered it quite fondly. One day I threw it in the VCR and surprised myself by laughing almost nonstop through the whole thing. Sure, it seems a cookie-cutter comedy from the eighties, and it is, but look! the craziness! The brilliance of the movie is how it's situations keep slowly escalating into pure comic insanity. Sure everybody remembers Bobcat Goldthwait rampaging in a Godzilla costume, but the seeds for the scene were presented about fifteen minutes ago and there was an uninterrupted continuity that took us from there to here. This is pretty amazing for a "cookie-cutter" comedy. Really, it's this sense of mayhem that keeps bringing me back to the movie. Mayhem. That's what I want out of comedies, and this is one of its epitomes. This and GREMLINS 2. But who cares about that? This movie brings the funny. What more could you ask for? No thanks to all the cute and fuzzy bunnies in the world.
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Summary: Were you that little fat boy?
Review: Holy cow, do I love this movie. "Look! The craziness!" This is one of those movies that played endlessly on HBO, and I remembered it quite fondly. One day I threw it in the VCR and surprised myself by laughing almost nonstop through the whole thing. Sure, it seems a cookie-cutter comedy from the eighties, and it is, but look! the craziness! The brilliance of the movie is how it's situations keep slowly escalating into pure comic insanity. Sure everybody remembers Bobcat Goldthwait rampaging in a Godzilla costume, but the seeds for the scene were presented about fifteen minutes ago and there was an uninterrupted continuity that took us from there to here. This is pretty amazing for a "cookie-cutter" comedy. Really, it's this sense of mayhem that keeps bringing me back to the movie. Mayhem. That's what I want out of comedies, and this is one of its epitomes. This and GREMLINS 2. But who cares about that? This movie brings the funny. What more could you ask for? No thanks to all the cute and fuzzy bunnies in the world.
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Summary: Set Up Your Summer With This Classic
Review: I always feel like I need to see this movie every year at the beginning of June. It's as if my summer would be incomplete without it. I would agree that it's a cheesy film, but you must admit... so is real life. So, if you loved the Eighties, if you love to laugh, and if you enjoy movies that give you an eclectic feeling, this movie is certainly worth taking a look at... every summer. :)
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Summary: What happened to Savage Steve Holland?
Review: I enjoyed this film more than Better Off Dead. It has a peculiar logic not seen in John Hughes' teen comedies.John Cusak wallowing in his "artistic self misery" is taken to Nantucket island for a holiday. Here he meets the Stork twins (Bobcat Goldthwaite and his identical(?) 6'4" twin) and the evil supercilious A+ crowd. Scattered throughout a fairly predictable plot of coming-of-age wisdom and redemption are truly insane characters and moments. I could watch this film over and over savouring the loopy characters, animation breaks and the ridiculous situations - the mechanical giant dolphin with rabies, Ack Ack's power crazy scoutmaster Dad, Uncle listening to the radio waiting to win money and his final revenge and the dangerously unpredictable Stork twin Egg.Cusak is delightfully restrained and uncomfortable in these situations. Demi Moore is bland as a hippy folk singer. This is a film that is more than a sum of its parts and if you think 16 candles was the best Hughes movie watch this picture. It's left field but it's worth it.
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Summary: Amazing movie
Review: I love watching this movie, can't wait for it to come out on DVD. It's movies like these that made me a teenage insomniac.
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