I wasn't expecting much, so I was pleasantly surprised. I was disappointed at how many scenes were ripped off from other movies (like the car seat in the next room from "Sixteen Candles"), but it didn't matter too much. It was fun watching the young bratty actors do their best with a relatively weak script. Paul Rudd gives the best performance by far and has the good luck to play one of the only two consistent characters in the movie, the other being Courtney Love. In fact, I would have preferred watching just their story as it is the most interesting and least objectionable.
As a child of the 80s I loved the soundtrack, but at the same time most of it was pointless and distracting. I also didn't see much point in setting these stories in the early 80s (but it's a convenient way of sidestepping the issues of cell-phones, AIDS, post-Reagan malaise, and unfriendly cab drivers).
As a child of the 80s I loved the soundtrack, but at the same time most of it was pointless and distracting. I also didn't see much point in setting these stories in the early 80s (but it's a convenient way of sidestepping the issues of cell-phones, AIDS, post-Reagan malaise, and unfriendly cab drivers).