All Pink and Glittery (Comedy)

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Product:	Comedy
Date:	20/10/01 (27 review reads)
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Advantages: MY TOP 10, GIRLIE?

Disadvantages: GIRLIE?

Ok, after announcing that I am leaving dooyoo next week, I was surprised by the response I got.. so I am thinking about just taking a break... Thanks for all the support:)

Anyhow, enough of that let me get on with the matter in hand.


The Duran Duran award for outstanding eighties pap goes to:

Weird Science (1985) Doesn't seem like your usual romantic comedy. But it is. Honestly. Gary Wallace ( Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are high school losers. They are Kings of Geekdom.

One evening they decide to create a virtual woman on Wyatt's new computer, (which now looks like something knocked up in a Blue Peter show) and lo and behold it works, the shapely figure of Lisa (Kelly LeBrock, not hampered by eightees hair or fashion, TSK) enters their lives.

But can Gary and Wyatt ever be popular and get themselves girlfriends? The point being would you care if you could shower with Kelly Le Brock?

Some great moments, such as when Lisa meets Gary's parents and says to Gary's mother, ' Doesn't it worry you that your son's only sexual outlet is tossing off in the bathroom?' The mom replies, crying : You told me you were combing your hair Tee hee very juvenile.

I love Gary and Wyatt, especially Wyatt, when he wakes up wearing Lisa's knickers. Bill Paxton is also very funny as Wyatt's overbearing, repulsive brother Chet.

Predictable, dated, childish, but all in a good way... You will feel all warm inside at the ending... then again Kelly Le Brock wears shorts in the last scene....

Scientific data:
Directed by : John Hughes
Written by:John Hughes
Running time: 94 mins
Certificate: 15
Soundtrack: Oingo Boingo (LOL), OMD, Los Lobos.

2. The Audrey Hepburn award for timeless appeal goes to:

Some Like It Hot (1959)

I love Jack Lemmon. God rest his soul. I can't help but think thi
s film is FANTASTIC.

Two loser musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) innocently stumbled upon some mafia business and are now on the run from Spats Colombo (George Raft). They dress up as women (Josephine and Daphne, respectively) and join an all woman band.

Everything is going swimmingly until a distraction arrives in the very alluring for of Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a disillusioned, naive young woman, who is rather down on her luck.

So things get a little complicated when the testosterone starts to flow.

From Lemmon's joy at being an engaged woman, to the dizziness of Monroe, this film is impeccable.

' Nobody's perfect' but this film comes damn close.

SPICY DETAILS:


Directed by: Billy Wilder
Written by: Billy Wilder ,I.A.L. Diamond, M Logan and Robert Thoeren
Running Time:120 minutes
Certificate: PG
Soundtrack: Classics like I wanna be loved by you.

3, The Jacobs Cracker ward for being able to quote the script in a parrot like fashion goes to: When Harry Met Sally (1989)

The movie begins with Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Allbright (Meg Ryan) sharing a journey to New York following graduation. Sally wants to be a journalist. Harry wants to sleep with Sally, eventhough he is dating her friend Amanda.

Harry is a boorish man who believes he is the most charismatic male on this planet. Sally is a romantic, who is yet to discover great sex and decent underwear (she has the days of the week on her knickers).

They don't like each other. Over a ten-year span they have two chance meetings, one on a plane, one in a bookstore.

They have recently split up from their perspective partners (Helen ran away with a man called Ira, Joe couldn't commit). They then decide to have dinner as friends.

This is when the film begins in earnest.

Forget the famous faking an orgasm scene
(Don't try to copy it either, I once got thrown out of MacDonald’s for doing so).

When Harry Met Sally is much more than that.
Crystal and Ryan (both on great form despite terrible hairstyles) are given fantastic support by Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher (Marie and Jess, their best friends)

A slice of Pecan Pie:


Directed By: Rob Reiner
Written by: Nora Ephron
Running Time:96 mins.
Certificate:15
Soundtrack: Melt at lovely crooner Harry Connick Jnr. working his way through 'It had to be you', alongside Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Gershwin heaven.


5. The Julian Clary for outstanding service to sequins and campness: Strictly Ballroom (1992)


Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio) is an up and coming star in the ballroom dancing scene. It runs in his family, his mum and dad were champions too.

However, his career is thrown into turmoil when he starts making up his own moves and his partner quits.. Who will dance with him now? Fran (Tara Morice), is a plain novice, who much to Scott's surprise turns out to be his perfect partner in more ways than one.

His family are displeased, as they want their Scotty partnered by local star, Tina Sparkle.. (Sonia Krueger) just who will end up making the moves with Scott? And is ballroom just men in tight trousers and women in too much make up? Yes and No. You’ll see

This film is wicked, in the sense of being acidic campness on overdrive. Excellent. Sad, Funny and Heartwarming. Highly recommended.

The dazzling details:

Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Written by: Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
Running Time:94 mins
Certificate: PG
Soundtrack: Time after Time, but apart from that nowt really :(

6. The Joan Collins award for my cradle snatching thoughts goes to : Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)

Based on the Taming Of The Shrew, but with a better-looking ca
st I bet. Ten Things I Hate is yet again another American high school romp of surprising charm. Katarina and Bianca Stratford ( Julia Stiles and Larisa Oleynik) are like chalk and cheese.

Unfortunately, their father Walter (Larry Miller) has made a rule that one sister cannot date, until the other one does so too. So Blanca’s would be beau Joey Donner (Andrew Keegan) pretty boy and out and out bounder pays the most antisocial boy, a rebellious Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger,) to woo the cantankerous Kat. He wouldn’t have to ask twice with me, but there we go.

While all this is going on the shy and sweet Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is also vying for the attentions of the lovely Bianca.

I have nothing else to say about this film other than I now have a crush on Heath Ledger the size of a very big planet. One of those ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I’m glad it ended like that, predictable sort of endings.


A mere trifle of the facts:

Directed by: Gil Junger
Written by: William Shakespeare, adapted by Karen McCullah-Lutz and Kirsten Smith
Running Time: 98 Mins
Certificate:PG
Soundtrack: Barenaked Ladies, Air, The Notorious BIG

7. The Dairy Lea award for cheesiness goes to: The Wedding Singer (1998)

When Robbie J Hart (Adam Sandler) the local wedding singer meets Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrimore) a kooky waitress, we all watch as the pair develop a friendship amidst big hair and lace gloves, after all this in 1985.

Both betrothed to equally vile partners Linda (Angela Featherstone) and Glen (Robert Glave) it's only a matter of time until romance prevails and we can go ooooh at a cameo by eighties rocker Billy Idol.

Also keep your eye out for a scene stealing Steve Buscemi at the end, You’ll never be able to listen to Spandau Ballet Again, if you did in the first place!

Directed by Frank Coraci
Written by Tim Herlihy
Runnin
g Time: 96 minutes.
Certificate :12
Soundtrack: Eighties Heaven including Kajagoogoo, The Smiths and Spandau Ballet alongsidesome great Adam Sandler tracks like the very funny 'Somebody Kill Me'


8. The Sara Lee award for sweetness goes to: Never Been Kissed (1999)

Yes, yes another Drew Barrimore film, but she’s good at kooky. I like kooky. Anyway, Josie Gellar (Drew Barrimore) is given her first job as a reporter on The Chicago Sun Times, which sounds easy enough, until she finds she has to reliive her high school hell.

Josie used to be a geek, yes Josie Grossy and now she has to work undercover as a student, will the second time around be any different?

Josie is 25 and never had a snog, so what does she know about being a teenager? Josie soon finds that nothing much has changed except the school heartthrob is now called Guy Perkins (Jeremy Jordan).

Josie finds herself hanging out with maths genius and nerd extraordinaire Aldys Martin ( Leelee Sobieski)… not exactly the story her boss wanted.. so she ropes in her popular brother Robbie (David Arquette), but the office seem more interested with her growing friendship with Sam Coulson, the handsome young English teacher (Michael Vartan).


Details on the blackboard are:

Directed by : Raja Gosnell
Written by: Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein
Running Time: 107 Mins
Certificate: PG
Soundtrack: the Smiths, John Lennon, Cyndi Lauper, Semisonic

9. The Vladivar Vodka award for being an outstanding source of hope goes to: Bridget Jones Diary (2001)

I went to the cinema like Scrooge, bahumbug I loved this book. I hate Hugh Grant AND Renée whatshername thingymebob is too goddamn glam to be Bridget, I sat there with my M and M’s (peanut, of course) and was shown to be the silly arse I am.

Bridget Jones( Renée Zellweger) is a single woman in her thirties. She loves her mates a
nd everything , but really really wants a man to take her to country retreats.

Her mother (Gemma Jones) is quite frankly a pain in the proboscis, always trying to tell her how to live her life. She has even tried to get Bridget together with the impossibly rude Mark Darcy (Colin Firth, yum). Why can’t her Mum, just bugger off because she’s doing rather well for herself in the men department, thank you very much?

You see she’s in the middle of a fling with her gorgeous boss Daniel Clever (Hugh Grant)… All and all this film was not as good as the book but don’t let that put you off. Hugh Grant proved himself to be a very good at this comedy malarkey. I hate to admit it too because I have always thought of him as a wimpy hamster type. ….

Directed by: Sharon Maguire
Written by : Helen Fielding (Screenplay by Richard Curtis and Andrew Davies)
Running Time: 97 Mins
Certificate: 15
Soundtrack: Robbie Williams, Gabrielle, Chaka Kahn the ubiquitous Miss Halliwell (Urgh)

10. The Barbie Award for girliness goes to : Clueless (1995)

Cher Horowitz is (Alicia Silverstone) is a girl who has everything. She is rich, she has attitude, her own vocabulary (like, whatever!) and goes to the hippest school in Beverly Hills . She is ‘in’. But this semester a few things happen, that put a wrinkle or two in Cher’s button nose. Her best friend Dionne (Stacey Dash) is planning to do the do with her boyfriend Murray and Cher is bored. When she meets the gauche Tai Fraser (Brittany Murphy) she realizes that she now has a project. In making Tai ‘cool’ Cher comes to question her own life. The dialogue is witty and ever so teenage… Fantastic!

Directed by : Amy Heckerling
Written by : Amy Heckerling
Running Time:97 Mins
Certificate: PG
Soundtrack: David Bowie, No Doubt, Radiohead

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