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| Title: VIBES Year: 1988 Rating: *** |
It's a shame this comedy/adventure, about two slacker
city folk with psychic powers, bombed so hard in theaters because
Cyndi Lauper – the 1980's icon who sang about girls wanting to have fun –
is a pretty good actress, sharing the right amount of lightweight
chemistry with fellow psychic (and really nice guy) Jeff Goldblum and
rogue con-artist Peter Falk, who tricks the duo into finding his
kidnapped son when he's actually seeking a mysterious pyramid of light
on a mountaintop...
Here's where the film, after establishing the likable characters in New
York and then their hijinx in a small Ecuador town, goes downhill:
once they reach the destination, there's nothing more to build: But
Lauper's presence alone making the decent
parts, and even the boring ones, somewhat worthwhile. And it's no
surprise that WARLOCK actor Julian Sands is a worthy adversary...
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| Jeff Goldblum in VIBES |
Produced
by Ron Howard, perhaps because his close friends, NIGHT SHIFT and SPLASH
writing team Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, penned the story and
screenplay, he climbed on board in the first place: And while VIBES is also a quirky romantic comedy with
aspects of science-fiction and outdoorsy pulp adventure, director Ken
Kwapis keeps the pace thanks to Lauper and Goldlum, who, unlike their
reverse-magnetic behavior on set, seem to really be in touch with each other...
Then again,
that's what actors do, pretend. The best scenes as the
polar opposites bonding in New York: Cyndi's Eli Diamond has an
imaginary friend giving her predictions while Goldblum's Nick Dreezy
views the past by touching objects, both possessing "gifts" that are, as
danger roles in, more of a curse: but at least they have each other to
depend on, and ultimately, fall in love with.
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| Julian Sands in VIBES with Cyndi Lauper |
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| Julian Sands in VIBES with Cyndi Lauper |
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| Julian Sands in VIBES |
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| Julian Sands in VIBES with Cyndi Lauper |
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| VIBES with Cyndi Lauper |
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| Julian Sands in VIBES with Cyndi Lauper |
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Julian Sands in VIBES with Cyndi Lauper
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Right Jeff Goldbum on Columbo left headlinng over Peter Falk in VIBES
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Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum in VIBES
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| Cyndi Lauper in VIBES |
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| Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum in VIBES |
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| Julian Sands in VIBES |
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| Opening Credits for VIBES |
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| Opening Credits for VIBES |
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Credits for VIBES
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| Opening Credits for VIBES |
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| Julian Sands in VIBES |
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| Julian Sands in VIBES with Cyndi Lauper |
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Jeff Goldblum in VIBES with Elizabeth Pena
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Peter Falk in VIBES with Michael Lerner
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Jeff Goldblum in VIBES with Cyndi Lauper
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Jeff Goldblum in VIBES with Cyndi Lauper and Peter Falk
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