This was an 80's teen comedy like many, that I really enjoyed. After viewing it again, after many years, I didn't realize how enjoyable it was. It too sends a message about having to conform, to get what you want. In this case, it's masquerading as the other sex. Like the familiar themed Soul Man, where Mark Watson had to go black to get into Harvard, here, promising young school girl journo writer, Hyser, a familiar Valley Girl face (which could also have you getting mixed up with Michelle Meyrick, in VG as well, or Breakdance's Lucinda Dooley) plays the male, and changes schools, after getting her paper rejected. Hyser, not a bad little actress, had me believing earlier, at some spots, that may'be it was really a guy, and she really did this well, the act quickly kicking into gear, when first awkwardly parading as the male in front of her sex starved little brother, which had me at times, thinking it was Patrick Dempsey. Meyrick, no, I mean Hyser falls for a loner, and an unpopular, un confident student, though of course, won't admit it, (still attached to her current stud beau, Fraternity Vacation's Leigh McCloskey, which you don't have to be Einstein to figure out, his character profile) which we know this all through the movie, where here is a familiar scenario dilemma. Think the reversal of All Men Are Liars. Apart from being wildly entertaining, and smart too, this movie really shows what it can be like, trying to fit in, or assume a different sex, which isn't helped by bully Zabka, who's just so stereotyped, not just with The Karate Kid, but much more so in Back To School, released only months after this, almost as if his BTS character was cloned. He plays a much bigger dick...d here, then in BTS, which I actually found him really annoying in this. The film plays out to the conclusion, pretty much as you think, but JOOTG'S is one of the better teen 80's comedie's that has something different, a smarter, more realistic spin, put on it, bolstered by good performances, especially it's leads. You may want to too, join that long line of students,who wanna punch Zabka's lights out. I know I would.
Review of Just One of the Guys
