The semi established tradition of people putting on horrible movies on bachelor parties.
Frankly embarrassed to have this in my Letterboxd diary, but in the spirit of transparency here I am logging.
Basically everything about this movie is bad, but I’ll give it a bonus half star for being a pretty interesting time capsule of 1980’s degeneracy.
Very fun time!
First impression is that this is an A+ version of a solid B movie imo.
The performances are all quite good from the main cast, the comedy is all hilarious, the emotional moments mostly hit.
What held it back from being a classic for me is just some of lulls in the story. Overall a fairly predictable plot with some very unpredictable scenes (which really worked for me!). The writing was on the wall for Ivan and…
The back and forth about the swallow and the coconut is a chilling foreshadowing of the types of back and forth conversations that would go on to happen on social media, except without a shred of irony.
Now that I think about it, so does the skit with King Arthur and Dennis, “there you go bringing class into everything…”
Somehow on a famously shoestring budget they made a brilliant comedy and an actually well made film that holds up 50 years later.
