Word: deeps
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There are two really good things about Blake Edwards' new film, Skin Deep. The first is that Skin Deep stars John Ritter, who gives a wonderful performance as Zach Hutton, a man who is addicted to women. The second is that Skin Deep contains not one, but two extended scenes featuring glow-in-the-dark condoms...
...Skin Deep, Ritter has been given a chance to show off both his talent for physical humor and his capacity for dramatic acting. There is a very funny scene in the film in which Ritter has just been given a rather excessive electroshock therapy treatment, and he proceeds to jolt about like a combination of Frankenstein's monster and a subway car on the green line of the MBTA. But it is the scenes in Skin Deep in which he is given the chance to act as the straight man that demonstrate how far Ritter has evolved from Jack Tripper...
Unfortunately, even when he's wearing glow-in-the-dark condoms, Ritter cannot save this film. Basically, the problem with Skin Deep is that all the characters in the film are one-dimensional. Also, the movie has no plot. Besides that, it's pretty good...
...Edwards has been unable to recreate his past glory in any of his more recent projects. The director of such cinematic disasters as Blind Date and Sunset, Edwards sinks to new lows with Skin Deep. Discerning viewers will note that three recent Edwards films, The Man Who Loved Women (1983), Micky and Maude (1984) and now Skin Deep are all virtually indistinguishable. They are also all really bad. Perhaps what Edwards has been trying to do with all these films is to recreate the limited success he found in the Dudley Moore/Bo Derek film 10 (1979). If this is Edwards...
...event, Skin Deep is, once again, the story of a man who can't settle down and commit to one single woman. You see, this man really loves women, and he's scared of dying or something like that. Anyway, he drinks a lot, and oh, yeah, this guy is an author with writer's block, and he really loves his ex-wife. But he cheated on her, and she threw him out and now he wants her back. You know the story...