tpellerito Review of For Keeps?

For Keeps? (1988)

I have to watch Sixteen Candles another dozen times to cleanse my palette!

[2/10 · 15 March 2006]

I'm struggling with the keyboard to give this a rating of two. Among the only refreshing things this movie did for me was give me 80s nostalgia overload, see an unknown Pauly Shore in a bit part, and watch Molly Ringwald in a non-Hughes role. I couldn't take "Katherine" (Eddie's wife in National Lampoon's Vacations) as a French speaking, partially refined, concerned mother. Nor could I handle Ringwald screeching in the shower in reference to the "boaconstricter" on her boyfriend, claiming she'd not seen it previous to being knocked up. This disappointment was similar to seeing Some Kind of Wonderful, and finding one of the only redeeming qualities was the soundtrack and the last two minutes of the film. Very much unlike the usual teenage angst I expected. Brace yourself for contrived performances by the parental figures and very unattractive populars that attempt to thwart the romance at hand.