Almost everything's a thirst-watch.
Top Four are favorite watches of the year-to-date.
I'm really ambivalent about Mischief. On one hand, it avoids a lot of the pitfalls of the '80s sex comedy genre but the main character Jonathan, with whom we're supposed to commiserate as short, awkward and shy, is very rape-y. By some people's definition he is a literal rapist for ejaculating in his girlfriend Marilyn (Kelly Preston) when they had agreed he would "barely put it in." Earlier in the movie, he literally tears her underwear off at the drive-in!…
Sara Ramirez (January Jones) is raped and widowed by an over-written, overacted leader of a tiny quasi-Christian extremist cult called Josiah (Jason Isaacs) who also murdered a couple scrubs he deemed to be trespassing on his land. Turns out the scrubs were due at the governor's mansion and weirdo sheriff Cornelius Jackson (Ed Harris) is dispatched to get to the bottom of their disappearance and ultimately uncovers Josiah's deep evil. Sweetwater was actually kind of complicated and unexpectedly well-detailed. It's…
I need some help here. Kay (Julia Adams) is a fox, wears at least 93 different outfits capped off with a sexy bandana-pattern halter top, and her hair is always perfect whether messed up or not but Dr. Reed's (Richard Carlson) allergic to shirts, has a single-digit body fat percentage, and isn't shy about showing his thighs the entire film -- which of them was meant to provide the sex appeal??? Maybe this is a personal issue…
Ultimately, I found…
A couple things were apparent to me pretty early in this film – 1) why it’s driven primarily love-it-or-hate-it reactions, and 2) while I don't really fall into either of those categories, this movie was definitely not my jam.
I did laugh at a few jokes and some references, but on the whole, there's just way too much silliness for no reason -- hot dog fingers, everything bagel, sex toy stuff, etc. -- and was like 60% of this movie…