Post by Fireflyfanuk on Jan 6, 2005 13:57:47 GMT -5
TITLE: Bad Guys
YEAR: 1986
CHARACTER: Skip Jackson
REVIEWD BY: Holly Q
Adam Baldwin and Mike Jolly play Skip and Dave, two goofy cops (who are also cousins, I guess to explain why they spend every breathing moment together) who do amateur professional style wrestling on the side (actually Dave is the wrestler - Skip just tags along and jumps in if he starts losing, which isn't as unfair as it sounds, since for some reason Dave is wrestling two guys to start with). A sports reporter named Janice (Michelle Nicastro) sees them and tries to get them to become a cop-themed professional tag team. But they're cops and they love being cops, so they decline. The next day, they answer a call to break up a brawl at a biker bar (I guess they're partners, even though Skip is a motorcycle cop and Dave drives a copcar) and wind up beating up the whole club. The whole club. After they're suspended, which of course they don't expect, they try some other jobs like construction work and stripping, each of which they have to give up because they're too dang sexy (I'm not just saying that, that's the actual story). Why didn't they immediately think of becoming professional wrestlers when Janice JUST gave them her number the night before they lost their jobs? Because SHUT UP, that's why.
So anyway - spoiler alert - they become wrestlers after all. The money is in "Bad Guy" teams, so they train with the husband-and-wife team the Terrible (Turk) McGurks (Gene LeBell and the fabulous Ruth Buzzi). Somehow, it becomes this big Cold War rivalry between the All-Amercian Bad Guys Dave and Skip and the Russian Kremlin Krushers, complete with a classic training montage that includes the Kushers guzzling huge bottles of vodka. Kind of like an intentionally funny "Rocky IV." With Sgt. Slaughter. USA!
Of course, I can't review "Bad Guys" without mentioning the Hair. Skip's unsettlingly bright platinum blonde hair. If I had to guess, the reason for it is because someone thought that no one would be able to tell Skip and Dave apart if they both had dark hair. Or maybe because it looks funny. Either way, you get used to it after the 5th or 6th viewing.
Oh, and don't forget to watch the awesome Precious Metal video during the credits. Just in case you somehow forgot it was the 80s.
Performance: There aren't a lot of layers to Skip, but he's funny, and handles the physical comedy very well. I'm not an expert on wrestling, but the wrestling scenes look good to me. "Bad Guys" loads of fun, and a definite cult classic in my book.
Rating:
/ 5
YEAR: 1986
CHARACTER: Skip Jackson
REVIEWD BY: Holly Q
Adam Baldwin and Mike Jolly play Skip and Dave, two goofy cops (who are also cousins, I guess to explain why they spend every breathing moment together) who do amateur professional style wrestling on the side (actually Dave is the wrestler - Skip just tags along and jumps in if he starts losing, which isn't as unfair as it sounds, since for some reason Dave is wrestling two guys to start with). A sports reporter named Janice (Michelle Nicastro) sees them and tries to get them to become a cop-themed professional tag team. But they're cops and they love being cops, so they decline. The next day, they answer a call to break up a brawl at a biker bar (I guess they're partners, even though Skip is a motorcycle cop and Dave drives a copcar) and wind up beating up the whole club. The whole club. After they're suspended, which of course they don't expect, they try some other jobs like construction work and stripping, each of which they have to give up because they're too dang sexy (I'm not just saying that, that's the actual story). Why didn't they immediately think of becoming professional wrestlers when Janice JUST gave them her number the night before they lost their jobs? Because SHUT UP, that's why.
So anyway - spoiler alert - they become wrestlers after all. The money is in "Bad Guy" teams, so they train with the husband-and-wife team the Terrible (Turk) McGurks (Gene LeBell and the fabulous Ruth Buzzi). Somehow, it becomes this big Cold War rivalry between the All-Amercian Bad Guys Dave and Skip and the Russian Kremlin Krushers, complete with a classic training montage that includes the Kushers guzzling huge bottles of vodka. Kind of like an intentionally funny "Rocky IV." With Sgt. Slaughter. USA!
Of course, I can't review "Bad Guys" without mentioning the Hair. Skip's unsettlingly bright platinum blonde hair. If I had to guess, the reason for it is because someone thought that no one would be able to tell Skip and Dave apart if they both had dark hair. Or maybe because it looks funny. Either way, you get used to it after the 5th or 6th viewing.
Oh, and don't forget to watch the awesome Precious Metal video during the credits. Just in case you somehow forgot it was the 80s.
Performance: There aren't a lot of layers to Skip, but he's funny, and handles the physical comedy very well. I'm not an expert on wrestling, but the wrestling scenes look good to me. "Bad Guys" loads of fun, and a definite cult classic in my book.
Rating:
/ 5