Who's That Girl?
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Movie Review: Who's That Girl
Summary: 4 Stars
Movie is obviously not for everyone.
Griffin Dunne was great in his role. He had some great interactions with the character Nikki Finn.
Movie Review: Is it possible for you to be any dumber?
Summary: 3 Stars
Loudon Trott (Griffin Dunne) is a Manhattan Tax Attorney engaged to debutante Wendy Worthington. He is frantically preparing for the big wedding, but first he has to pick up a cat for eccentric millionaire Montgomery Bell, and Wendy's father commands him to make sure that a certain Nikki Finn (Madonna), who is being released from the slammer, gets on the bus and leaves town. Piece of cake. The project was undoubtedly pitched as an 80's update of the 30's comedies like Howard Hawks' 1938 Bringing Up Baby. Seems like a smart bet for a whacky screw ball comedy, but in hindsight you'll be asking: Is it possible for the producers to be any dumber?
Who's that girl who ruined this movie? Madonna. While she actually won an ASCAP award for the title song, also nominated for a Grammy and a Golden Globe, her acting won her a Razzie for worst performance, and Razzie nominations for worst film, worst script, worst director, and one of the other songs was nominated for worst song. The script was pretty bad, with enough holes to drive a UPS truck through--but mostly it was Madonna who's to blame. From the moment we first see her released from the slammer we know that she is going to stink, big time.
Prison Officer: One black leather jacket, one plastic comb, blue, two studded leather bracelets, black, and one lipstick, fire engine red.
Donovan: [sarcastically] All your worldly possessions.
Nikki Finn: [speaking of the lipstick] Don't knock it, Donovan. You can't get this shade `a red anymore.
If she had been left in the slammer instead of released, we might have had something. The Magic that was Madonna in the 80's just doesn't translate to the medium of film. "Desperately Seeking Susan" was a fluke that worked because it used her in very small doses essentially playing herself, but surprise, surprise, I guess it wasn't Sean Penn who was to blame for the failure of "Shanghai Surprise" after all. Penn was supposed to play the lead in this turkey also, but after seeing the rushes they shanghaied him--ditched him and hitched their wagon to Madonna's star. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Anyone could see that Penn had a one way ticket to Palooka Ville while Madonna was on Starlight Express.
It seems her persona was meant to be a strange concoction of Betty Boop, Marilyn Monroe, and Mae West, with her own unique fashion sense--or maybe a punked out Judy Holliday--but on the big screen it just looked hideous. That is no beauty mark, Madonna, that is a mole, even if it was painted on. Her roots were showing--on purpose! Was that meant to be trashy but chic? Frida Kahlo called, and she wants her eyebrows back. I was aghast at how hideous Madonna looked and how badly she acted. Madonna has won 9 Razzies for worst actress, including 2000's uncoveted Worst Actress of the Century Razzie. She is truly in a league of her own. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
Veteran actor and Oscar winner Sir John Mills (Ryan's Daughter, 1970) lent the film a certain gravitas that it didn't deserve. As eccentric millionaire Montgomery Bell he sends Loudon Trott to the docks to pick up his cat. It turns out to be a rare and endangered breed of cougar that Trott totes around for most of the film. I couldn't understand what Sir John Mills' character was even doing in the movie, other than providing an excuse for Madonna to show that even if the movie success that Cher has garnered has thus far eluded her, she, not Cher, is the true Queen of the Cougars. Oh, well. Rule Number #1 of Screwball Comedies is fish gotta swim, and running gags gotta run:
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Cabbie #1: I didn't say I gave her a ride. I said I had her in the cab.
Here the running gags don't so much as run, they take a cab--but where does it say running gags also have to gag?
Cabbie #2: I had her in my cab once.
The jury is still out on Griffin Dunne. He fed Madonna his straight lines well, but she invariably muffed the return. In one scene he is telling her that he was on the fencing team in college, but his father would never watch any of his matches.
Nikki Finn: Why would your father wanna watch you turn over stolen goods? You're twisted!
Touché. NOT!
Much better it was when Griffin Dunne had the punch line. Nikki Finn is trying to outrun a train at a crossing, and she exclaims that she thinks she can make it. He is oh so very deliciously droll and deadpan:
Loudon Trott: I'll accept anything but a tie.
I saw Griffin Dunne at a panel on producing independent films at San Francisco State University with a screening of "After Hours" (which he had just starred in and produced). "After Hours" was similar in some ways to "Who's that Girl?" Griffin played a Word Processor in over his head in the wild and whacky world the city becomes after hours. Kind of like a Tax Attorney thrust into the craziness of Nikki Finn's life. One was a successful independent film that showed you can accomplish a lot on a small budget with clever directing and writing, but the other was a big budget film, supposed to be a star vehicle for Madonna, with horrible writing and directing. After the "After Hours" screening Griffin Dunne mentioned an upcoming film project with Madonna. He was on that Merry Go Round, reaching for that brass ring...
Little did Griffin know that after this debacle, his acting career would pretty much be Dunne.
Wendy Worthington: Is it possible for you to be any dumber?
Buck: I-I don't see how.
The Great Buck Howard (2008) Griffin Dunne was Jonathan Finerman
Marie and Bruce (2004) Griffin Dunne was Restaurant Guest
Swept Away (2002) Madonna was Amber
Naked in New York (1993) Griffin Dunne was Auditioner
Dick Tracy (1990) Madonna was Breathless Mahoney
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) Madonna was Hortense Hathaway
Shanghai Surprise (1986) Madonna was Gloria Tatlock
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) Madonna was Susan
After Hours (1985) Griffin Dunne was Paul Hackett
Des Teufels Advokat (1977) John Mills was Blaise Meredith
Ryan's Daughter (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1970) John Mills was Michael
Britannia of Billingsgate (1933) John Mills was Fred Bolton
Cabbie #3: Oh, hang on. I'll open the gate. Wendy gave me the keys. I had her in my cab once.
ok movie
Summary: 3 Stars It seems that this movie will only appeal to the core audience - meaning Madonna fans. Yes! Madonna was awful in The Next Best Thing but this movie is decent. Madonna got a lot of smack for this movie. If another female actress would've played in this movie no one would ever question if it was bad acting or not. I don't know why everyone harps on Madonna so much. She sample ABBA's on Hung Up and everybody harped on her for that. ANd this is the first time she sampled in her 23 yr career. Everbody samples lyrics and sounds all the time especially Rap artists. Rap artists sample sounds & lyrics heavily and on a consistent basis and no one says anything. I guess Madonna would have to die in a plane crash like Aaliyah or something in order to get respect. This is a carefree movie and should've be judged as an oscar material movie.
Movie Review: cute but not that great
Summary: 3 Stars
this movie was not really her best but she looked really cute and gorgeous. the plot was ridiculous....ridiculously funny. the way she walked and her accent was really funny. lol, it kinda looked retarded. i find it pretty interesting that in one scene she goes back to her normal voice all of a sudden. i do enjoy the scene where she falls in love with the guy. even though, she seems funny her acting skills wasn't that impressive. it somehow felt kinda fake and rehearsed. however, i love the songs she did for the movie. "the look of love", "can't stop", "causing a commotion", and of course "who's that girl".Movie Review: Mediocre Movie, No Extras
Summary: 3 Stars
...unless you count other languages as extra features. DVD plays fine so if all you want is the movie, it'll do. The movie itself is pretty lame, an hour into the film you want to choke her character, a seriously annoying chick who steals, ruins people's property, and dresses like an escapee from the mental ward. Somehow we are to believe a rich goodlooking guy actually falls for this loser. Not cute, not funny, just annoying. Anything after "Susan" was downhill, but in "Susan" she played herself. "Who's That Pest."