Sometimes I'll watch a movie from the '80s and wonder what the heck people were thinking. Then I remember the rampant cocaine use throughout the United States during the decade, and then things begin to make more sense.
This is one of the zaniest goofball comedies you'll ever see. It has absolutely zero interest in making any sense, so you might as well check your logic and your entire brain at the door. If you're willing to accept it for the fantastical farce that it strives to be, you'll enjoy yourself. For the most part.
The issue is that even without your brain you're going to have a hard time looking past the fact that these two 15-year-old boys have created a 23-year-old-woman to be their girlfriend. And she's totally down with it. She makes out with one of the boys for an uncomfortably long time (as if any amount of time would be comfortable). The scene is so creepy and cringeworthy that it's miracle that anyone thought it was acceptable to keep in the movie.
Perhaps no one batted an eye at the scene during the time of the film's release, though I find that hard to believe. Today, the scene has aged so poorly that it overwhelms the entirety of the movie and invalidates the whole thing. Though, to be fair, the rest of movie does little to deserve validation. We're talking about a movie that includes a toy Barbie turning into a real-life woman with superpowers, a motorcycle mutant whose day job is teaching, and a man being turned into a literal pile of talking feces.
I had heard people revere this movie as a classic, which is now unfathomable to me. The adult on child make out scene is going to haunt me for quite a while. I implore you to spare yourself that unfortunate fate and watch something else.
This is one of the zaniest goofball comedies you'll ever see. It has absolutely zero interest in making any sense, so you might as well check your logic and your entire brain at the door. If you're willing to accept it for the fantastical farce that it strives to be, you'll enjoy yourself. For the most part.
The issue is that even without your brain you're going to have a hard time looking past the fact that these two 15-year-old boys have created a 23-year-old-woman to be their girlfriend. And she's totally down with it. She makes out with one of the boys for an uncomfortably long time (as if any amount of time would be comfortable). The scene is so creepy and cringeworthy that it's miracle that anyone thought it was acceptable to keep in the movie.
Perhaps no one batted an eye at the scene during the time of the film's release, though I find that hard to believe. Today, the scene has aged so poorly that it overwhelms the entirety of the movie and invalidates the whole thing. Though, to be fair, the rest of movie does little to deserve validation. We're talking about a movie that includes a toy Barbie turning into a real-life woman with superpowers, a motorcycle mutant whose day job is teaching, and a man being turned into a literal pile of talking feces.
I had heard people revere this movie as a classic, which is now unfathomable to me. The adult on child make out scene is going to haunt me for quite a while. I implore you to spare yourself that unfortunate fate and watch something else.