Wednesday 4 July 2012

Kidsy Malone

Ah, yes, I saw that movie many many years ago... and again last night! I remembered very little about it, which was useful as then I could watch it again with fresh eyes. Neat.

The basic premise is gangster movie where the introduction of better guns is played out as a guy and a gal... who cares? 'COS IT'S KIDS PRETENDING TO BE ADULTS!!! GET IT!!!!! IT'S FUNNY!!!!! Okay, it's not that funny, and the whole cream shooting guns is at best 'cute', but... IT'S KIDS PRETENDING TO BE ADULTS!!! GET IT!!!!! IT'S FUNNY!!!!! Sigh. It does lead to an ending that most people do remember that could be best described as Mel Brooks-ian.

And, surprisingly, the kids are quite good. When they are not being sung over by adults that is (the Tallulah song is just bad). Scott Baio and Florrie Dugger give fine performances and it's it great to see how their careers flourished afterwards? And of course Jodie Foster as the uncomfortable Tallulah. Looking through the rest of the names, no others spring to note... except for one Bonita Langford (I thought it was her, but didn't pick on the character name until looking through the list). Belting out the tunes even back then, eh?

It's a movie that might be worth seeing as an oddity, but thankfully hasn't been repeated even though IT'S KIDS PRETENDING TO BE ADULTS!!! GET IT!!!!! IT'S FUNNY!!!!!

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2 comments:

evildicemonkey said...

I have never seen this film and I have no interest in seeing this film.

Despite that I know that Jodie Foster, Dexter Fletcher and Scott Baio all starred in this film... why do I know this?

Jamas Enright said...

Dexter Fletcher gets a great wee role in this. I have no idea if he's done anything else. (Clicking on his IMDB link involves more energy than I have...)