While Tony Danza had just achieved success in TV's "Taxi", others in this film, such as Robert Wuhl, Michelle Pfeiffer and Fran Drescher would take much longer to rise up the ranks, some longer than others, and I doubt that they'd consider this more than just a minor footnote in their earlier years. Drescher's nasal voice is recognizable right off, and has one rather memorable line (of a rather raunchy nature) that lovers of cinematic camp still quote. The plot is thin, in fact thinner than deli meat slices fresh off the slicer, but oh those songs, practically every chart buster of the mid 1960's heard here. But then again, many of these songs have been used over and over in motion pictures and Broadway jukebox musicals, with everything from Motown, "Jersey Boys" and "Sister Act" (the movie) popping up in the viewer's memories of where they've heard them or seen them performed.
Part of the plot I recognize from the musical "Rock of Ages" with uptight Beverly Hills matrons determine to stop the Hollywood Knights from having their annual Halloween madness down their streets, and of course, it's obvious that the one In charge of this protest is going to end up being seduced by one of the dashing hoods. Pfeiffer is wide eyed and innocent as a greasy spoon waitress, and while stunning shows none of the dramatic Chops and she would later become well known for. But I doubt that this part had any real meat in the script, so it was a good way to pay her dues and be noticed which obviously she was. Drescher gets the comedy, but when all of the bathing beauties around her are topless, she is the only one to have all of her clothes on. (Check her out in the following year's "Ragtime" to see her in a very different part.) This basically is a fun nostalgic film that the viewer can watch and not really have to spend much brain cells on outside of tapping their feet and moving their head to the rhythm. There have been better movies about this era with stronger plots, but for what is here, it's still fun if just for the soundtrack and a few amusing moments with a teeny bit of gratuitous flesh.
Part of the plot I recognize from the musical "Rock of Ages" with uptight Beverly Hills matrons determine to stop the Hollywood Knights from having their annual Halloween madness down their streets, and of course, it's obvious that the one In charge of this protest is going to end up being seduced by one of the dashing hoods. Pfeiffer is wide eyed and innocent as a greasy spoon waitress, and while stunning shows none of the dramatic Chops and she would later become well known for. But I doubt that this part had any real meat in the script, so it was a good way to pay her dues and be noticed which obviously she was. Drescher gets the comedy, but when all of the bathing beauties around her are topless, she is the only one to have all of her clothes on. (Check her out in the following year's "Ragtime" to see her in a very different part.) This basically is a fun nostalgic film that the viewer can watch and not really have to spend much brain cells on outside of tapping their feet and moving their head to the rhythm. There have been better movies about this era with stronger plots, but for what is here, it's still fun if just for the soundtrack and a few amusing moments with a teeny bit of gratuitous flesh.