A girl’s sixteenth birthday is completely overshadowed by her older sister’s wedding. Feeling ignored and forgotten, she focuses on a crush she has on a jock at the high school, while trying to avoid the advances of a geek named Farmer Ted. It’s easy to see why John Hughes is considered by some to be the king of 80’s movies. Though the film is a little dated in its sense of style and music, its over-the-top use of music as well as richly layered situational humor filled mainly with shallow 2-dimensional characters is quite enjoyable.
The treatment of Long Duk Dong, (yes, they named him after a poultry penis), is perhaps a little too racist at times, but overall I’d say he makes a cute and funny addition to the story.
Also, this is a nice opportunity to see what John and Joan Cusack looked like when they were super young and in bit parts.
4 stars
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