Rating of
4/4
Comedy at its best
Holas - wrote on 07/01/09
This was most definetely one of the funniest and memorable movies for me. I know this movie line by line. It was not a masterpiece by far, but it was just a great flick. This is why I became a fan of John Cusack. There is actually a cop where I live named John Cusack. But anyway, back to the movie. Every character in this movie was developed well. There was the crazy looking teacher from "Ghost", the boy who's mother blew up her face, the two-dollar kid, and the two Japanese sporting announcers. But overall, my hat goes off to "Booger", Curtis Armstrong--he was funny as all hell as the best friend. Not too many people came out of this movie, which is a shame, they were all good. The guy plays the mailman, played another mailman in a different movie as well. I even devoted a movie list for him.
This movie is a must see. It's about a boy who looses his GF because he can't ski the K-12, has a horrible car, and oh yes, he's a geek. He devotes his life to getting this girl back. He decides to learn how to ski this monster of a mountain, takes up playing saxaphone again, fixes up his camaro that has been sitting on the front lawn of his house under a giant sheet, and is taught language lessons by this very pretty French exchange student that is being molested by a boy who she is forced to live with. This molesting boy likes this French girl, the French girl likes the main character, the main character likes Beth, Beth likes the cool kid who has the nice car and can ski the K-12 and everyone else in the movie wants to date Beth--even Barney Rubble.
There is a great mini story on how his father struggles to fix the garage door windows, how his brohter builds a space ship and how his mother can't cook, how his friend cant buy real drugs, and how the mailman knows that his brother gets big boy smutt magazines.
I can go on and on--Better off Dead is better off in your collection!!
