Vibes

1988 romantic adventure comedy

Rating: 12/20

Plot: A pair of psychics, one aided by a friend from the other side and a psychometrist who can know the history of objects by touching them, are recruited to travel to Ecuador in search of a guy's missing son. They find out that that guy, Harry Buscafusco, isn't being completely honest with them. Then, it's adventure time!

Wow, that might win a shane-movies award for worst movie poster. And believe it or not, there was another that was worse. That one had separate pictures of Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper holding a hand up with the brilliant tagline "Put your hands on our hands and feel the. ..VIBES." Now I know what you're thinking, dear readers--a movie with Jeff Goldblum Goldbluming it up combined with the acting talents of one Cyndi Lauper? And wait just a second! Peter Falk is in this, too? How the hell can this miss? And don't get me wrong--this might not be a great movie, but it is kind of a fun movie. It's a Babaloo Mandel/Lowell Ganz screenplay, and yes, I'm only pointing that out because I wanted to type the name Babaloo. I also noticed during the opening credits that Googy Gress has a part in this. And getting tiny amounts of screentime are Steve Buscemi and Van Dyke Parks, but their names aren't nearly as funny as Babaloo and Googy. Boy, is that Cyndi Lauper a presence. Of course, I would find it difficult to act naturally next to Goldblum, and besides, she probably just took this part because she wanna have fun anyway. Falk's as awesome as he always is, and there are a few good lines even if the story gets int the way of the fun too often. There's just enough wackiness for enough people to latch on and throw his into the cult classic category. Goldblum's got a cult following anyway, doesn't he? Goldblum makes a variety of weird faces which makes me wonder, as much as I like the guy, how he ever had a serious career in Hollywood. There's also a moment in this that made me really uncomfortable where Goldblum touched Cyndi Lauper's rump. He only did it once though, not time after time. Oh, and there's a baseball-playing monkey if that's your thing. He out-acts Cyndi Lauper actually.