Sixteen Candles
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VHS Movie Reviews of Sixteen Candles
Movie Review: a ture 80's movie
Summary: 4 Stars
i'm a fan of alot of 80 movies and Sixteen Candles is a total 80s movie. its a great movie because it has Molly Ringwald and Anthony Micheal Hall it it. Movie Review: Classic is both racist and sexist.
Summary: 1 Stars
I think I first watched this movie when I was 13. I found it all right then, though the main plot line of the popular boy falling for the gawky younger girl fell a little flat even then. Upon watching it again at the age of 20, I found several aspects of it to be offensive. First there is the pretty horrific Asian stereotype which really isn't even funny. It mostly reminded me of the way Michael Scott from The Office might behave if he were trying to imitate someone who was Asian. Then there is a scene which is slightly less obvious and is therefore even more dangerous: in it, the popular boy who the gawky girl is lusting over hands over his very drunk popular girlfriend to the geeky guy and basically says, "Yeah man, have a good time". This is dangerous because it mirrors a lot of real life situations. I mean, did they seriously not realize this was rape in the '80s?
I suppose if the story was well written overall it could be salvaged in spite of these huge missteps, but like I said before, there isn't nearly enough development of the Sam/Jake story for me to really invest anything in it or find it believable. This goes 10 times for the extremely odd pairing of the popular girl and the geek. The dialog between them the morning after and her break up with Jake was the sappiest, least believable tripe in the entire movie. I'm going to basically discount all of the stereotypical high school stuff because this is probably among the movies that started all that anyway. At its core it's a mediocre teenage movie with a cast that lack diversity and a script that lacks class.
Movie Review: Great Movie well worth watching
Summary: 5 Stars
We recieved this movie quickly and undamaged. My daugter 12yrs old just asked for it out of the blue and loved it.Movie Review: 16 Candles
Summary: 4 Stars
Everything was and is great. Product came on time. The quality is as expected, which is fine. Basicly, No Issues.
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Movie Review: Sweet Sixteen and never been kissed
Summary: 3 Stars
For some reason John Hughes movies always strike a chord with me. Previous to this, I've seen The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, which I think gets funnier/sadder the more you watch it, but Sixteen Candles was one of those films that everyone who watches it, will see themselves in. I remember being sweet sixteen , fancying the most popular guys in school, being ignored, although I didn't have the problem of my family forgetting my birthday.
Molly Ringwald was the darling of the eighties, along with the rest of the Brat Pack at the time, but she seems to have virtually disappeared right now. She seems to be mostly on TV in the US at the moment, and hasn't appeared in a movie in ages. She could have been one of the big Hollywood names, but for some reason, she dropped out of filming Some Kind Of Wonderful, which went to Lea Thomspon, and ended her run of films with John Hughes.
Sixteen Candles is about a 16-year-old girl, who has to go to school on her birthday, knowing her family are too wrapped up in her older sister's wedding to remember their daughter is sweet sixteen. She's mad about one of the most popular guys in school, but instead, gets hassled by a geeky guy, who gets her knickers, so he pretend to his gang that they got up to no good. It's quite predictable, but quite sweet at the same time. Molly Ringwald suited these kinda roles perfectly, and unlike the 'teen' stars of today, she was actually 16 when the film was released.
The best thing about this film were the scene-stealing roles from John & Joan Cusack. Joan was only credited as Geek Girl #1, but manages to steal the few scenes she's in. She wears a head brace thing, and was hilarious trying to drink water from a water fountain. I don't think she has any lines, but hey, she was brilliant!
Sixteen Candles is one movie to be picked up if you want to relive your school days, and feel like the geek one more time. But the geek gets the guy in the end.