ansok@spp3.UUCP (Gary Ansok) (02/24/86)
Since I've been a Goldie Hawn fan for some time, I decided to take
in her latest movie, WILDCATS. I wish I hadn't. The lady really
needs to take some lessons on what movies are worth producing/appearing in.
This comedy(?) has an all too familiar plot with very few laughs
in it, and it rumbles along with all the grace of a 400-pound football
player to the entirely predictable ending.
(***some SPOILERS in the following paragraph***)
The plot, which has been done zillions of times before, has our hero(ine)
taking a bunch of losers (a ghetto high school football team), convincing
them to accept her as their leader, infusing them with spirit and making
them champions and turning her own life around in the process. We have
the villian who got her into this situation in the hope that she'll make
a fool of herself and who she ends up facing in the climactic championship
game (and who, of course, doesn't know the meaning of the word sports-
manship).
Fans of bad cinema will want to stay all through the closing credits
(fans of bad music, too). Sane people will leave as soon as the
closing credits start (if not sooner).
Summary: -2.5 on the -4 to +4 scale. Probably not worth seeing except
at the 99-cent theaters.
Gary Ansok
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