Something Wild
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Movie Reviews of Something Wild
Movie Review: a comedy thriller that is sexy, scary, and sad
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great film that metamorphoses into several incarnations in the course of 2 hours. It starts off with Daniels as an uptight guy whose life is subordinate to his career in a piddling investment office (I think). He does everything he is supposed to do, feels terrible stress and is aware that something is missing from his life. When he meets the yin to his yang - an unbelievably sexy young Melanie Griffith - he talks about how he locked in bonds at a high interest rate right before the rates fell in the early 1980s. Griffith is an agent of chaos, a doorway for him to fun and risk that he has not known for years. The scene where she seduces him is classic: handcuffed to the bed, she calls his office and hands him the phone before climbing on top of him. As he fumbles in his pleasure, it is so funny it is sad, a truly great cinema moment. She even goads him to skip on a restaurant bill, with a meat-cleaver wielding chef chasing him.
After witnessing the light side, the movie suddenly becomes very dark with the appearance of her old boyfriend, Ray Liotta. He essentially forces her against her will to come with him, setting off a deadly duel with Daniels that is completely believable, a mundane salariman facing a ruthless criminal. Griffith suddenly appears like a pathetic victim with little control over her life, making her a loser, not a free spirit. I do not want to reveal the resolution, but it is wonderfully surprising.
Recommended. This is a classic.
Movie Review: Something special
Summary: 5 Stars
"Something Wild" is an early Melanie Griffith film from 1986. It went by unnoticed on its theatrical release, but quickly found an audience on video. It's full of laughs!Melanie Griffith plays Lulu, a fun-loving lady with a shady past. She stumbles across Jeff Daniels one day in a diner and is drawn to him through his attempt to leave without paying. Next thing the two of them are on a wild journey full of funny situations. However, its not all fun! There are some genuine scary and tense moments in the film when Lulu's ex-husband turns up. But these help add spark to the film and make it one of the great films of the 80's.
Something Wild" is one of those special films that comes along once in awhile. It's also one of those films you can watch over and over, I just love it! Along with "Working Girl", this is one of Melanie Griffith's shining moments.
DVD SUMMARY: Let me begin by saying that I was thrilled to obtain this on DVD, after owning a rather poor quality pan/scan video version of it. The DVD is in widescreen anamorphic, and while the transfer is not exactly clear and pristine, it is accceptable considering its age. Special features include a trailor.
SOMETHING WILD is a must-own DVD. Grab it before it goes out of print.
Movie Review: One of my favorite movies
Summary: 5 Stars
I have no complaints about the quality of the DVD. The movie itself I give 5 STARS. Melanie Griffith is a delight in the role of Lulu (and led me to having a crush on her yow!). Lulu is a woman who's been leading a freewheeling, marginal life of a kind that must have reminded Ms. Griffith a bit of her own wild times, but with a better outcome. Anyway, the movie starts out lighthearted with Lulu essentially shanghaiing (sp?) Jeff Daniels away from his empty job in NYC and off to her high school reunion in PA. There, the couple run into Ray (Ray Liotta) who's Lulu's real husband and who is also fresh outta jail and looking to get the one good thang (Lulu) back in his life. At this point (about the last 30 minutes or so) the movie turns from freewheelin' fun to drama and violence. Kind of like life, eh? One minute you're up, the next.... I recall reading a review once that said the movie wasn't as popular as it should have been because it didn't fit neatly as either a comedy or a drama. Pity it wasn't marketed as both. Go for it!Movie Review: Nearly 25 years old and better than ever...
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything seems to have gone right here -- from the unpretentious comedy that Jonathan Demme used to specialize in directing, to the original story by E. Max Frye, to the excellent work of Tak Fujimoto, Gary Goetzman, and the rest of the crew from that era. One of the interesting things about Something Wild is that it really gets a lot of traction dramatically and most of the comedy doesn't consist of one-liners but original, funny situations. The actors earned their paychecks: Melanie Griffith is incredibly endearing in this role, Jeff Daniels has never been better, and once Ray Liotta shows up the film takes on an entirely different energy.
I would warn you not to watch this with your friends who think "Family Guy" and other post-2000 comedy is the greatest stuff ever made. This film is definitely not for people who want obvious pop-culture references and extreme caricatures -- Something Wild is too good to be wasted on people wanting just a bunch of cheap laughs.
Movie Review: LOCO DE MOR!!! (Happy 20th Anniversary, "Something Wild"!)
Summary: 5 Stars
The sign on the diner where Audrey and Charlie meet and reunite, reading "HEROES/HOME COOKING", couldn't be a more appropriate harbinger for the joint odyssey upon which Charlie and Audrey embark; Audrey catalyses Charlie's inner hero; Charlie brings out a stabilizing domesticity in Audrey, both enhancing rather than compromising the other.
This building plays a supporting role in the film's final five-minute-long shot: the camera bids Charlie and Audrey farewell as they drive away in that "station wagon she's not gonna be too happy with" (Ray's words; turns out the station wagon is hers, and it's a smokin' Woody); then the camera swings toward the Fire Engine Red exterior of the diner, and hangs out while Sister Carol offers a reggae-inflected live version of "Wild Thing". Here, Demme, the master filmmaker, gives us one of the most uncannily blissful moments in motion pictures.