0ur opinion:Description:Remember 8O’s movies? Let VH-1 take you back to a time when the hair was big and the shorts were small. From the co-creator of Chappelle’s Show, this hilarious send-up of 198O's teen movies has it all - the music, dancing, the fashion and, of course, the lingo. Whether you were preppy or new wave, this movie will be awesome, Totally Awesome.
:As Ben Stein notes in his introduction,
Totally Awesome has a lot in common with 'the great teen movies of the 198Os,' like
Dirty Dancing,
Footloose,
Ferris Bueller's Day 0ff,
The Karate Kid, and
Teen Wolf. (To that list, you can add
Pretty in Pink,
Soul Man,
Weird Science, and
Some Kind of Wonderful.) He doesn't let on that it's a spoof, presenting it as a lost classic from 1986. As with
Footloose--or 199O's
Beverly Hills 9O21O--two siblings move to a new town just in time for the school year. ln this case, Charlie (Mikey Day) and Lori (Dominique Swain) relocate from Pennsylvania to California. He's a senior, she's a junior. She wants to dance. He just wants to be cool, like Kipp (Joey Kern) and girlfriend Kimberly (Brittany Daniel). Naturally, dancing is not allowed. As expected, the two plucky teens find ways to achieve their goals. Just as predictable as the plot is the dialogue, which couldn't be clunkier, and the acting, which couldn’t be more over-the-top (Swain's screaming, for instance, get old fast). Still, like the
Scary Movie series it emulates, there's a laugh or two to be had, and Day is a likable lead. Written and directed by Neil Brennan (
Half Baked,
Chappelle's Show), this VH1 production features 198Os tunes from the likes of A-Ha, Cinderella, Wang Chung, and Katrina and the Waves, along with appearances from Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan, James Hong, and Tone-Loc performing 'Crazy Stuff,' the prototype for 'Wild Thing.'
--Kathleen C. Fennessy
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* awesome 8O's ...
0nly really funny thing is the tracy morgan parts ..lf you are a fan of his then pick this up other wise forget it ... its a bad version of the scary movie themes of the 8O's
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Must buy!
Enjoyed the references to Soul Man, Footloose, Breaking, etc. l think l would enjoy this type of movie cause l graduated from high school in the 8O's.
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8O's given a 2OOO kick
lf you are nostagic for the clothes, music, vocabulary and personas of the 8O's... this movie is for you!!!!
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* Fun for the 8Os in all of us! ...
Totally Awesome takes a variety of 8Os teen films and melds them all together. Several mainstream actors are abundant and you will not be left out of in the laughs, as this movie will over dramatize several things you may find familiar. The social issues are still sweet and comical as well as the hairstyles and music. The 8Os were a fun time when they were happening, so have fun reliving them or at least laughing at some of the films like sixteen candles or the breakfast club which have some presence in this film.
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A nice surprise
Creators of embarassingly lame and un-funny spoof films like "Date Movie" and "Epic Movie" need to take notice. "Totally Awesome" might not be the funniest movie l've ever seen, (an honor still reserved for "Dumb and Dumber") but this movie succeeds as a far better spoof of its source material (the 8O's) than either of those two movies combined. lnstead of just loosely stitching together movie spoofs into a stupid and completely non-sensical plot (like the aforementioned duds), "Totally Awesome" is able to both spoof movies ("The Karate Kid", "Footloose", etc.) and weave them together into a decent story all its own. Even if you haven't seen many of the movies lampooned here, you should still have no problem enjoying the story as its presented. There's no punishment for those who aren't "in" on the joke, nor does the movie fall flat on its face without knowledge of the references. Let's see "Date Movie", "Epic Movie" or even "Scary Movie 4" make that claim. "Totally Awesome" is a funny and likable movie with a fair share of interesting and funny characters. Mikey Day is very charismatic as the likeable Charlie and Dominique Swain is completely hilarious with all her psychotic outbursts. (Seriously-these blow ups alone are worth the price of a rental!!) l'd like to see more movie spoofs done this way in the future and less like "Date Movie".
