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Paradoxically, it is in part because of obvious references and similarities to other archetypal comedies ("The name's Bueller. Ferris Bueller."), that "Day Off" is so miraculously original and funny. You've seen these comic devices before, but never all combined, and probably not with such a slick script and hilarious acting...
...vivid, exuberant. Razzmatazz is a plentiful U.S. natural resource, like oil but with no OPEC competitors. Americans are pop-culture vultures, profligate in the money and time they devote to making themselves giggle and choke up on cue, ooh and aah en masse. Why is it that Americans make slick movies and snappy songs and every kind of TV show so relentlessly, so effectively, so -- well, well...
...businesses to peddle their products with commercials that are goofy, whimsical and sometimes downright obnoxious. One of the pioneers in the field is Crazy Eddie, the New York-area consumer-electronics chain with the pitchman who raves about "insane" prices and "Christmas sales" in August. Instead of copying the slick style of the ad factories on Madison Avenue, local advertisers churn out low-budget affairs that they often write and produce themselves. Nothing is too ridiculous if it catches a viewer's attention: announcers attack water beds with chain saws or dress up like gorillas and yell...
...reality proved less seductive than the dream. On the plus side, Big Deal is slick, melodic, harddriving and thoroughly professional. There are nearly two dozen numbers, each with a precise character. The first act is a triumph. The second act unravels and gets sidetracked in silly fantasy sequences, yet is never less than fun. The singers' voices could not be much better...
Been a long twilight for the good working-class people of Hadleyville, Pa. Detroit closed the car factory, and life is desperation on the dole. For bad times, big gambles: send slick-shaggy Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) to Tokyo so he can persuade a thriving Japanese automaker to establish a plant in his hometown. Then, when the do-it-our-way executives of Assan Motors demand that their American employees work harder for less money, have Hunt convince his pals, speciously, that there is a pot of gold at the end of the assembly line. Poor, distraught workers, when they...