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The part where Whoopi gets her dress caught in a shredder has up-tempo cartoon-like music played over it, which puts the thing too much at a kiddie level.
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The opening segment limps along while barely being engaging. Her workplace environment and conversations that Whoopi has with her co-workers seems realistic, but not particularly interesting or amusing. I liked all the movie posters that line Whoopi’s apartment, but otherwise the visuals are dull. There is even a surprise appearance by Jonathan Pryce at the very end, but my favorite is when Penny casts her older brother Gary as a detective who has a humorously confrontational exchange with Whoopi inside a police station. It is also fun to watch a lot of up-and-coming comic stars in small roles including Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, James Belushi, Tracy Ullman and Annie Potts. My only complaint to her performance is her unnecessary use of the F-bomb, which turns this otherwise kid friendly story into an R-rated movie. Her impressions of Ray Charles and Diana Ross are on target as well, but my favorite part is when she is drugged with truth serum and then goes into a beauty salon and tells everyone there exactly what she thinks.
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The part where she tries to decipher the lyrics of the ‘Jumpin Jack Flash’ song by the Rolling Stones is full of all sorts of Goldbergisms and it’s great. Director Penny Marshall nicely allows Whoopi room to flex her comic muscles while also taking advantage of her sassy and streetwise humor. Whoopi is the best thing about this otherwise silly and contrived plot.
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This sets into motion wild adventures in which she puts her life at risk and gets involved with everything from the CIA to foreign government powers.
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One day she gets a message from someone using the code name Jumpin’ Jack Flash who asks for her help supposedly to save his life. In this one she plays Terry Doolittle a bank employee who does a lot of transactions and communications through her computer. Critically her films in that decade did not fare well and she has even disowned a few, but since this is a 80’s movie blog I feel it is my professional duty to review them anyways whether some of them are torturous to sit through or not. Due to Whoopi Goldberg turning 58 on November 13 th and because whenever I watch a clip of ‘The View’ on YouTube she tends to be my favorite panelist I have decided to review each of the films she starred in during the 80’s for the next 7 Mondays.