Casual Sex? (1988)
1/10
Not everything about the 80's is nostalgic.
31 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
1982 showed movie goers "A Little Sex", a forgotten if o.k. Comedy about a couple preparing for marriage, and six years later we get this, a forgotten comedy about college girls debating the issues of sex as single women. Not o.k. Lea Thompson and Victoria Jackson just are not funny as the two women, Polar Opposites who don't even seem like they'd be able to deal with each other for a night out on the town, let alone a vacation. Throw in Andrew Dice Clay (my candidate for worst comic of the 20th Century) and a bunch of other forgotten actors (actually, not forgotten, but never were) who are presented stereotypically, some embarrassing situations that are just uncomfortable to witness, and a cliched story, put that together and you get 90 minutes of extreme unfunniness that may have you staring at the screen like the audience in "The Producers" with your mouth agape.

"Saturday Night Live" ensemble members from all but the original cast are a mixed bag, and some make transfer to the big-screen okay while others didn't. Victoria Jackson didn't (and has graciously disappeared from the limelight), and Mary Gross here in a supporting role is exactly where she ought to be. The resort that they go to seems like one that guests would check out immediately after the first night there, with stupid match-up games that are straight out of kindergarten, and feature rather colorless, vapid characters that are beyond dislikeable. Clay has the charisma of a melted Gumby. I've seen any bad comedies of the 80's that have at least something positive to say about it, and all I could think of to say about this was that the drinks they have at the resort look tasty.
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