GrigoryGirl

This is a very enjoyable, often funny film. Critics hated it at the time, and I don't think it made a lot of money back in the day. It has some very engaging performances, a great soundtrack, and it's occasionally touching. It also has some very funny moments throughout. It's a masterpiece compared to the later disco film Can't Stop the Music, which, despite a great soundtrack, is a really bad film and that picture did more to kill off disco than anything else. TGIF is a lot of fun if you can believe it, and it has a very compact running time of only 95 minutes, which helps it immensely.

I haven't seen this since it came out, so I revisited it on TUBI. It still stinks after all these years. The biggest problem is Hulk Hogan can't act. He's one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, but that doesn't translate to the screen at all. He's painfully bad. His acting is often unintentionally funny. The sign he gives as "Rip" is silly and hackish. His love scenes with Joan Severance are silly, too, mainly due to his bad acting and having no chemistry with Joan on screen.

The supporting players, mainly Kurt Fuller and his 2 associates, are pretty good and are often funny. The scene where all 3 of them enter the dive bar is actually pretty funny and is intended to be so. That one scene is the best in the film. Tiny Lister is pretty ominous as Zeus, Hogan's rival. Joan Severance is gorgeous and deserves to be in a better movie. Despite Hogan's massive popularity in the wrestling world at the time, the film bombed despite massive promotion by WWF/WWE, and now is considered a bad cult classic. Don't bother unless you're a fan of bad movies.

Most of the reviews here are negative.

Ellos son mucho loco.

This film is HILARIOUS, and it's supposed to be. It's not supposed to be a horror film. It's pretty obvious from the first few minutes that it's supposed to be funny. So I went along with it and laughed my keester off at it.

Best line...."It was dusk. I could tell that because the sun was going down".

This was one of the funniest films I've seen in quite some time. Hollywood rarely makes comedies these days (aka 2024), so one has to find laughter in Hollywood's past to make up for it. One of Corman's funniest movies, and pretty well made considering its budget and its very short running time (just over an hour). Plus you get to see Robert Towne act and he's pretty funny in his role here.

Ignore the negative reviews. It's a comedy, and it totally works as one.