Skin Deep
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Movie Reviews of Skin Deep
Movie Review: Hilarious
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is great, funny and unpredictable.Many movies were inspired by this one movie and copied from it.
It did not have the success it deserved.
John Ritter's best act.
Movie Review: Skin Deep
Summary: 5 Stars
Skin deep is the sexiest movie out there. Finally going to be on DVD. Seeing The female bodybuilding scene over and over priceless. Buy it!!!!!!!Movie Review: Blake Edwards and John Ritter Rule!
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my all time favorite comedies. John Ritter is amazing in this. The direction is flawless.Movie Review: I Like John Ritter, but the DVD is lacking...
Summary: 4 Stars
MOVIE:
Skin Deep, considered by many to be a non-favorite of the Blake Edwards catalog, should warrant some favorable recognition due to the solid performance by it's leading man, John Ritter. His character Zach, is plagued with troubles that can get the best of most men, including women, drinking and self discovery. He then fumbles his way through Blake's story with scant advise from his lawyer and his favorite bartender, played by Vince Gardenia. In an almost 'R' rated version of Jack Tripper, Ritter portays Zach to be a flawed yet likeable character who's downward spiral through the course of the picture has us rooting for a happy ending and some mental resolve.
Comedicaly speaking, like most films, there are highs and lows. Skin Deep is not ment to be a Farley Brothers movie or a 'cute/gross' Ben Stiller date flick. It's a bit naughty in spots and even dramaticly satisfying in others. If you like both John Ritter's style of line delivery and his incredibley original physical comedy that he gave us on Three's Company, than you'll find a lot of humor where others might miss it. Remember when Jack Tripper rolled around head over heals while still in sitting 'indian style' on his apartement floor or when he would back down from a bully in that hysterical cowardess fashion that would make the audience crack up every time? Well, there's a bit of that charm here in this picture.
Most people talk about the glowing condoms scene, which is quite original and funny, but it takes place in the dark and you only get to see glowing penises bounce around on screen for a few minutes. The real comedic scenes envolve Ritter's facial reactions and physical comedic timing. In one scenerio while in a drunken stuper, Zach leaves a bar with a female body builder and doesn't realize her massive figure until she's towering over him in bed explaining her rigorous work-out routine in detail. When she askes how he feels about being able to then sleep with her, Zach shyly replies "Like Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger".
Another scene which has been overlooked in previous reviews of this film is the moment when he tries to leave a day spa after following a beautiful model to it's front doors only to find a bitter ex-girlfriend working there. After a few minutes of shock therapy, ment for muscle relaxation, poor Zach is walking like a man having random seizer attacks all the way back to his car. It's flawless, classic Ritter.
ADVICE:
If you are a John Ritter fan, see this movie. If you've enjoyed most of the pacing and story telling of Blake Edwards romantic comedies, see this movie. However, If you find that the films of the 80's don't live up to the gross-out fests of todays 'shock-em sock-em' comedies, then think twice. You might not enjoy Skin Deep to it's fullest.
DVD:
The widescreen option is nice but that's it. No extras. This is the only reason the DVD gets 4 out of 5 stars from me, however it is a relativly cheap DVD which you can probably pick up used on Amazon. So, until a special edition comes out, which probabley won't happen anytime soon, if ever, we John Ritter fans will have to make due.
Movie Review: When the love chase gets old melancholy rises up and explodes
Summary: 4 Stars
Slightly dirty, very funny and at times even sensitive, Skin Deep is a perfect film to curl up to on a Sunday evening and laugh well into the night. There's something charming about the late 80's and early 90's comedies that I like, perhaps since it was during my own childhood that they were made but there's something organic to them that many of today's movies lack like the grittiness and the look of the lenses it was shot with versus plastic and computer like movies of today.
The humor here is constant; John Ritter portrays a writer who's not only full of himself but also completely addicted to women and alcohol. After his marriage fails (it might have something to do with his many girlfriends) he falls into a slump, he can't write, he cant hold a relationship ( or doesn't want to) and is still obsessed with his ex wife, claiming that she's the only one who can fix him. There's non stop action and jokes, my favorite part was when he followed a foxy looking chick into a spa like retreat only to be subjected to electric shock therapy by an ex, walking out in jitters and at one point tripping on the stairs and grabbing someone's papers spilling them all over the building and then when he ran into a blind man, and couldn't let go of his walking stick, I was laughing so hard that I couldn't breathe, and I cant remember last time that happened to me. I adored that there was a lot of heart in this, one really rooted for the poor deflated author who skimmed the surface of life with empty things that stopped exciting him after a while, and once the crazy things don't make you tick what is left to do? Trying his best to sober up he takes a new lease on life and wraps the story up with a great ending. I adored the whole movie and had a great time watching it.
- Kasia S.