This Girl for Hire brings elements from film noir movies and pulp fiction to modern age in this a bit tame and sapless but yet somehow intriguing made-for-a-TV movie.
80s-o-meter: 75%
Total: 70%
Category: Comedy
#603 Flesh+Blood (1985)
If you can stomach all the medieval unpleasantness and decadence Paul Verhoeven rubs your nose to, Flesh+Blood is a valiant effort in originality, and a truly unique experience unlike any other movie.
80s-o-meter: 48%
Total: 78%
#593 Superman III (1983)
A Richard Pryor movie with some extraterrestrial strong man also starring in it, Superman III is an unfocused, uninspired mess that tries too much to mix in a bit of everything
80s-o-meter: 80%
Total: 12%
#590 Hunk (1987)
A modern Faust story about a nerd willing to sell his soul in order to become a man of everyone’s dreams, Hunk is a clumsy but disarming take on 1980s californian yuppie lifestyle
80s-o-meter: 97%
Total: 81%
#589 Doctor Detroit (1983)
A nerdy professor dresses up as a pimp with an annoying nasal voice in Doctor Detroit, a laughterless Jerry Lewis like total-waste-of-the-celluloid slapstick from Dan Aykroyd
80s-o-meter: 61%
Total: 4%
#588 Heartbeeps (1981)
Too childish for adults and too weird and violent for the kids, Heartbeeps is one TV sketch stretched to 90 minutes that’s hard to fathom who it is actually targeted to
80s-o-meter: 30%
Total: 38%
#583 Broadcast News (1987)
Smart without being smart-alecky, funny without being a farce and emotional without being sappy, James L. Brook’s Broadcast News is a love triangle well worth your time
80s-o-meter: 86%
Total: 93%
#580 Private Benjamin (1980)
A waste of a very nice poster, Private Benjamin shows a limited potential as a girl-powered army farce, but side tracks far too many times to countless of uninteresting paths.
80s-o-meter: 50%
Total: 48%
#576 Neighbors (1981)
The movie that was to be John Belushi’s last seems a mediocre slapstick at first, but soon outgrows its premise and manages to come up with one silly surprise after another.
80s-o-meter: 75%
Total: 80%
#575 Stripes (1981)
An 80s Beetle Bailey adaptation, Stripes starts falling apart after the 30 minute mark, and Murray’s one-dimensional wise-cracking smart alec character can do little to save the movie.
80s-o-meter: 62%
Total: 61%
#574 All Of Me (1984)
Steve Martin provides the comedic muscle that saves All Of Me, a very average and unbelievable beyond its own good body switching comedy from a total oblivion.
80s-o-meter: 80%
Total: 62%
#573 Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
While it’s nice to see the gang back together, the ’surely to be a blockbuster, too’ sequel completely loses its comical pacing that made the first movie so uniquely entertaining.
80s-o-meter: 95%
Total: 79%
#572 Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
The movie that made Eddie Murphy a superstar, Beverly Hills Cop is a perfect combination of action and improvised humor making it the definitive buddy cop movie of the 80s.
80s-o-meter: 100%
Total: 98%
#569 Making the Grade (1984)
A run–of–the–mill school comedy so plastic it would’ve taken someone with an exceptional on-screen charisma to save the day – and unfortunately Judd Nelson just can’t cut it.
80s-o-meter: 83%
Total: 58%
#564 The Wizard (1989)
A kids’ radical road adventure movie that offers little for the grown ups, The Wizard should only tickle your fancy for its shameless promotion of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Which is all good by me.
80s-o-meter: 95%
Total: 62%
#560 Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)
The sixth Police Academy got a lot of bad rap when it was released, but personally I liked it much better than the previous iteration.
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege successfully restores the series to its roots and offers a solid whodunnit plot instead of just a series of loose jokes.
80s-o-meter: 92%
Total: 84%
#559 Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988)
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach loses it core acting talent, leaving Assignment Miami Beach a crippled and unmotivated exercise low on wittiness and substance, and high on inane slapstick.
80s-o-meter: 89%
Total: 38%
#558 Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
Very similar to the previous Police Academy movie, Citizens on Patrol sees the return of G.W. Bailey, has a kick ass soundtrack and feels like the most well rounded sequel up to this point.
80s-o-meter: 86%
Total: 76%
#557 Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
Although at best just collection of loose sketches, Police Academy 3: Back in Training does manage to outperform the previous instalment in the humour department, and delivers the light, frivolous comedy the movie goers came to except.
80s-o-meter: 84%
Total: 75%
#556 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
Even though the story is transferred to a different location and new characters – some of them even creative and humorous – are added, compared to the original Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment feels watered down in many ways.
80s-o-meter: 82%
Total: 61%