Crazy People
May 28th, 2008 at 5:07 pm (Movies)
It might have been released in 1990 but the script was definitely written in the 80s. Felt like the leads were all thoroughly bored and distracted. They’d ‘wake up’ and realize it was their line and deliver it and then zone off again.
I’m fond of Daryl Hannah but now I have to wonder if I’ve inflated her acting skills in my mind. She came off as petulant instead of neurotic.
I’ve never been a huge Dudley Moore fan but I’ve liked things he’s done. This felt like a phone in job for him.
It was mildly amusing to see Paul Reiser playing a similar character to the corp hack in Aliens.
At the end, I was doing a serious double take because I could swear that the one helicopter pilot was George Eads (CSI), but it wasn’t. And I knew it would be because George doesn’t look 45-50 as he would be now.
The only thing I would recommend this movie for would be the funny “honest advertising” campaigns that the movie’s plot centers around. Otherwise unless you just REALLY love 80s movies, Dudley Moore, Paul Reiser and/or Daryl Hannah….. don’t watch.
Daryl Hannah: 1.5 star
Daryl acting badly: -.5 star
Funny ads: 1 star
It’s an 80s movie and I love the 80s: 2 stars
It’s a bad 80s movie with little to no charm: -1.5 star.
Summary: 2.5 stars