Title: Shallow, Not Subtle--Simply Awful.
Review: I'm amazed at the number of reviews I've read here that descibe the "witty dialogue" in this film, or that describe it as a "representative piece" for the 1980s. Good Lord, I sat through this film last night, and it was the most vapid movie I've seen in quite awhile. I waited--in vain--for the dialogue to become witty and insightful. I generally love films with a lot of dialogue, but this was a "talky" film that had very, very little to say. I began to think that the point was, perhaps, that these characters were so shallow that they had nothing of note to communicate to one another. If that's the case, this could have been done with more style and with some semblance of a plot or character development. The actors sound like they're trapped in a bad high school play--indeed, I think I've seen high school and community theatre productions that were more engaging than this pretentious waste of film stock.
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