Movie Miscreants,
This is a funny movie.
Is this a funny movie?
I think this wants to be a funny movie?
Oh there it is!
This is probably one of those movies that works better in your memory than it does actually watching it. It’s only been a week and I can already see it with rose colored glasses. The terrible beautiful one night stands, the comedic alcohol benders, and the glow in the dark boner fights. When you’re actually watching it some of those things drag out way too long and come off with the wrong tone.
The boner fight, that is comedy gold.
Mark
As far as rankings go I had it directly in the mediocre bulls-eye. It was kind of a mess of tones, melon collie, manic, masturbatory, muscle-bound. But I love John Ritter, so that pulls it up from the nose dive to the bottom.
This week it’s Bill Erskine’s call, Bill D. is standing by.
Spay and neuter your pets,
-Mark
Skin Deep is so funny, John Ritter’s physical comedy is amazing.
Skin Deep is a 1989 American romantic sex comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring John Ritter.
Zachary "Zach" Hutton is a successful author who has a weakness for alcohol and beautiful women. Zach's mistress walks in on him in the process of cheating on her with her attractive hairdresser, followed by his estranged wife Alex discovering his mistress about to shoot him with his revolver. Following the breakup of those relationships, Zach engages in a long period of binge-drinking and solace-seeking with a string of women. He avoids work, continues to strain relations with his ex-wife and drunkenly attends a formal party dressed in a genie's costume.
Zach's affairs include one with a volatile woman named Molly who deliberately leaves him hooked up too long to a skin-treatment electro-therapy machine that gives his body quivering spasms from head to toe. He also has a one-night stand with a remarkably muscular female bodybuilder named Lonnie, telling her before sex that he feels "like Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger." One gag scene is portrayed in total darkness, with Zach wearing a luminous condom as he prepares to have sex with yet another woman he has just met, Amy. When her boyfriend returns to the hotel room similarly equipped, the two men engage in a frantic fight, their glow-in-the-dark attire bouncing crazily across the darkened room.
After disrupting his ex-wife's wedding day, it finally dawns on Zach just how out of control his lifestyle has become. He sobers up, abstains from womanizing, and begins to write again. Achieving the trifecta of recovery that Alex predicted he couldn't achieve, he wins back her love.
