Flawed, but then again so were the 80's... I loved it

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2001)

I'm also no big Adam Sandler fan, but this isn't typical Sandler. His character's a tad harder-edged in this movie, which seamlessly combines a good healthy mockery of the 80's (which in hindsight, let's face it guys, were as ludicrous as they were just great to live through) with a great deal of affection for the period. The stereotyped romantic plotline is hardly important at all, although it's there, and moves things along from ironic vignette to vignette - and I promise you, you'll be tapping your foot along to the soundtrack that yes, has all *those* songs, as much as you'll be chuckling as fun gets poked at all those things you used to think were just so darned cool. It doesn't even matter that there's the obligatory slushy ending either - which is saying something...
So, at least if you were born between 1960 and 1965, and you seriously identified at the time with any character in *any* of John Hughes' movies (because this feels like a pastiche of one, except coming out of left field a little), rent this out, kick back, and smile as you remember the days when you thought wearing a way too short bright coloured leather jacket (or a puffball skirt) was the height of hip. You'll have fun.