Review of Mannequin (1987) by Trent M — 11 May 2008
Oh the memories of ASN's afternoon movies. Some 15 years after last seeing this, it's amazing what has been seared onto my brain.
The movie seems to want to be a screwball comedy and it's only really funny as an exercise in camp. It's got it all: broad gay stereotypes from Meshach Taylor, G.W. Bailey playing the only type of character he's ever been allowed to play, James Spader is a slick-haired asshole (and he plays a character in this film I think), Estelle Getty neither shoots people for Stallone nor tells of about Sicily circa 1922. Andrew McCarthy plays a likable everyman with a molded-plastic fetish that is satisfied by Kim Cattrall (who I can watch in anything for reasons I don't fully understand).
Coupled with a neon, pasteled 80's colour scheme and a lite-rock soundtrack exemplified by "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", the film was everything I expected it to be.
This review of Mannequin (1987) was written by Trent M on 11 May 2008.
Mannequin has generally received mixed reviews.
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