Film Forum
Episode Recap
Episode 5
Films Reviewed: Hoot and Stick It
Commentary: 1986 (a look back)
Featurette: Behind the scenes of Hoot
Regarding Hoot:
Matt: Sorry, I didn’t. While it was nice to see a film be pro-environment without being completely anti-corporate, did it really have to be this stupid? Every adult (save producer/composer Jimmy Buffet) was a complete and total moron! Undemanding children may love it, though. A generous two stars
Aron: Neither did I. Not only is this film stupid, plot wise, it’s stupid, film wise! The director thought that a full moon wasn’t enough light for a night time scene, so he flooded one scene with too much light for a bedroom! What in the blazes did he do that for? The owls were cute, though. Another generous two stars.
Average Rating: ** (out of ****)
Regarding Stick It:
Aron: This was a surprisingly fun movie from the writer of Bring it On! Jeff Bridges was good as a controversial gymnastics coach brought in to train the wild-child of gymnastics. This look behind the scenes of competitive gymnastics really does deliver the stunts and the laughs. Three stars.
Matt: If I wanted to see the “Y.M.C.A” sequence of Can’t
Stop the Music again, I’d have waited for VH-1 Classic to re-air
it. The film’s photographer seemed
obsessed with the lower parts of these ladies’ bodies, and not in a good
way. The gymnastics were good, but the
dialogue was too bitchy for my tastes.
Zero stars.
Average Rating: *1/2 (out of ****)
Commentary: Twenty years ago, the movie going world was treated
to such films as Top Gun,
Peggy Sue Got
Married, Platoon
and Crocodile
Dundee. Aron and Matt took a
look back at the year 1986 and made note of what made that year so special.
Featurette: Behind the scenes of Hoot,
featuring the state of