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| Bachelor Party
Year: 1984
Directed:
- Neal Israel
Actors/Actresses:
- Tom Hanks
- Tawny Kitaen
Tom Hanks' best work
I'm not big on hyperbole, but Bachelor Party is Tom Hank's best movie. It's all been downhill for him since 1984. Sure, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, and Apollo 13 are good, but none of them merit watching a few hundred times like Bachelor Party (most viewings took place during the wee hours of the morning while I was in college).
Unless you're an imbecile, HIV-positive lawyer, or astronaut, there's not much you can learn from Hank's more acclaimed movies. The same can not be said for Bachelor Party, however. At some point, most guys will have a bachelor party and this movie serves as a great guide to planning one:
"Let's have a bachelor party with chicks and guns and firetrucks and hookers and drugs and booze!" <BR>"Yeah! Yeah yeah! All the things that make life worth living for!"
There's a lot more you can learn from this movie too. For example, guys, if your in-laws are pressuring you to have kids, just respond as Hank's Rick does:
"Well, there's this 17-year-old Oriental girl I have my eye on. But don't worry, you'll have some American grand kids in no time - I know this pup's fertile."
Buy this movie (and if you do and can figure out exactly what Rick's going to do with that egg beater, please e-mail me).
It's More Than Just A Coke Sniffing Donkey.
I love this film.......absolutely love it! This was that glorious time in the 80s when R rated sex comedies were box office blockbusters. This is when Tom "I'm a really really serious actor now" Hanks was funny; I mean EXTREMELY funny. This film has all the laughs of the sungenre, but it's also got something that it's peers don't, and that's(don't laugh) a good love story. Maybe it didn't affect you this way, but I saw this as a very touching love story amongst all the silliness. I saw this film as a true test of Hanks' love for his fiancee-just look at what he has to deal with: 1)His beer drinking, sex crazed buddies are against the idea and rather than support him, give him a bunch of flak(is that how it's spelled?). 2) His fiancee's ex keeps trying to buy Hanks off with money and appliances. 3) Hanks's future in-laws hate his guts and aren't afraid to let him know. 4) He's surrounded by hookers and people having sex at his bachelor party. Hanks brushes all of this off and in no way lets it hinder his decision to marry his fiancee. There's even a scene where Hanks' ex girlfriend(played by the gorgeous Monique Gabrielle), takes off her clothes and tries to seduce him. That takes a real man who must really be in love to walk out of that bedroom! I think that's the best part of the film; The fact that every one and every thing is trying to derail Ricks marriage, but he never gives in and gets his girl at the end of the film. Very moving. Plus there's hilarious scenes of juvenile sex humor if romance isn't your thing. The combination of these two factors make this one of the best comedies I've ever seen.
Lame rip-off comes up for air
This also-ran 80's sex comedy is getting trotted out again simply because Tom Hanks is in it.
Don't waste your time -- the National Lampoon's franchise did it earlier and better. Hanks at best can affect a half-baked Bill Murray imitation.
Yes, there are plenty of T&A shots and potty jokes, but many other movies before or since have done it much better. Try the American Pie series if you want to see authentic teenagers in adolescent hijinks. Try Animal House if you want a far funnier party movie.
Avoid this at all costs...
Buy Bachelor Party at Amazon.com
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