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Okay, the spiders were better actors than the cast but the movie was supposed to be stupid, light hearted fun - and it succeeded.

Bumbling Deputy Pete was hilarious. When Sheriff Sam asked him to help load her son's bike onto the truck: "Yeah, okay, sure." Poor thing was crying and sniffling like a baby when his wife left him over the cat's electrocution. You could also tell he was totally henpecked by his wife. He didn't even have enough sense to wipe the spider sh*t off his face after shooting it. Something nasty and slimy is dripping down on your head and you don't even care?

Greasy, ponytail-wearing Mayor Wade: "That was an excellent ostrich burger." Gotta give it to him: he actually had ostrich burgers as a fast food meal at his mall since he was raising the nasty little buggers on his farm and wanted to turn a profit with them somehow. (Give me one jumbo ostrich burger, fries and a Coke! Ewwwww). He locked the basement door at Prosperity Mall so the rest of the townspeople could deal with the spiders and only thought about saving himself. He deserved to be eaten by the spiders and I was sort of sorry they rescued him. How he ever got elected mayor is anybody's guess. Maybe nobody else wanted the job.

Sheriff Sam wasn't very convincing: Her daughter looked about 5 or 6 six years younger than her mom! It made her mom seem like sort of a slut and an underachieving one at that --- Pregnant at 16, divorced with 2 kids and staying on as Sheriff in a small, economically, disadvantaged mining town of no importance to anyone but its out of work residents. Did she even finish high school? I guess you didn't need any qualifications to be Sheriff in Prosperity so why not give the pretty, divorcée a chance to wear a uniform and carry a gun? The daughter was just a mean spirited teenage brat and her part was sort of a throwaway.

I didn't really care if Chris McCormick survived. He was "sooooo boring" and not attractive in any way. Why on earth would Sam want him? Aunt Gladys was sort of a hoot, but why was she so alcoholic and ravaged looking? She looked like the product of some hard drinking, inner-city New Jersey, crime-infested ghetto instead of an Arizona desert town.

They didn't really flesh out the characters very well because the focus was on the mutant spiders.

The movie suffered from split personality: I'm a comedy, no I'm a horror story, no wait, I'm an action movie, I'm romantic.....whatever.

It would have been so much better if they were either a comedy or a horror story and had a plot that was true to one or the other.

I actually did enjoy this movie because I overlooked the stupidity and bad acting and just had fun with it.

This movie is still an all time favorite. Only a pretentious, humorless moron would not enjoy this wonderful film. This movie feels like a slice of warm apple pie topped with french vanilla ice cream! I think this is Cher's best work ever and her most believable performance. Cher has always been blessed with charisma, good looks, and an enviably thin figure. Whether you like her singing or not - who else sounds like Cher? Cher has definitely made her mark in the entertainment industry and will be remembered long after others have come and gone. She is one of the most unique artists out there. It's funny, because who would have thought of Cher as such a naturally gifted actress? She is heads above the so-called movie "stars" of today. Cher is a real actor on the same level as Debra Winger, Alfre Woodard, Holly Hunter, Angela Bassett and a few others, in that she never seems to be "acting," she really becomes the character convincingly. She has more than earned the respect of her peers and of the movie-going public.

Everything about Moonstruck is wonderful - the characters, the scenery, the dialog, the food. I never get tired of watching this movie.

Every time single time I watch the scene where they are all sitting around the dinner table at Rose's house, I pause the remote to see exactly what delicious food Rose is serving. I saw the spaghetti, mushrooms (I think), but I can't make out whether they are eating ravioli, ziti? What is that main course? It looks wonderful and its driving me nuts!

Everybody in that family was a hardworking individual and they respected and cared about one another. The grandfather wasn't pushed aside and tolerated, he was a vital part of the family and he was listened to and respected for his age and wisdom. He seemed to be a pretty healthy, independent old codger too.

Loretta's mom wasn't "just a housewife," she was the glue that held the family together and was a model example of what a wife, mother, and home manager should aspire to be. She was proud of the lifestyle she had chosen but she didn't let it define who she was. High powered businessmen aren't as comfortable in their skin as Rose Casterini was. Notice the saucy way she said "I didn't have kids until after I was 37. It ain't over 'til its over." You got the sense that she had been the type of young woman who did exactly as she pleased and got her way without the other person realizing what had happened. She was charming, quick witted, and very smart. What a great mom!

I didn't actually like Loretta right away because she seemed like a bit of a know--it-all who wasn't really as adventurous and as in control of herself as she wanted others to think. She could tell others about themselves and where they had gone wrong, but she really didn't apply common sense to her own life. She was going to marry a middle-aged mama's boy simply because she wanted a husband and a sense of identity and purpose to her life. She was more conventional than her own mom. She dressed and wore her hair like a matron at a house of detention and seemed humorless and bored, but underneath you sensed that she was vulnerable and lonely and had a lot of love to give the right man. She would probably end up making an awesome mom too.

I could see in the future, a house full of Loretta and Ronnie's loud, screaming happy kids and Rose and Cosmo enjoying every minute of it.