Adios… Mr Morose

A DVD Review of Class

Ahhh, memories. I love revisiting the classics from my childhood. No matter how much they end up disappointing me, there will always be that sense of nostalgia that will remain. I thought of many other flicks while watching this one: Rob Lowe playing ice hockey reminded me of Youngblood, some of Andrew McCarthy's antics reminded me of Weekend At Bernie's and Mannequin and some of the more general hijinks reminded me of everything from Soul Man to Back To School. But I wallow in my own nostalories. This flick holds up ok. Some wild girly hair from McCarthy aside, this has the usual men in ladies underwear, obligatory T&A hijinks (from Virginia Madsen no less), but it also has a decent cast: in addition to Lowe and McCarthy, it has the radiant Jacqueline Bisset (who I sooo had the hots for, after seeing this on video for the first time), the ever reliable Uncle Ben hisself, Cliff Robertson, and quite astonishingly, it has John Cusack (who's a babyface in this and I immediately think of the Savage Steve Holland flicks from the eighties, Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer) and Alan Ruck (Bueller of course) in supporting roles, plus in smaller roles, Casey Siemaszko (3D in Back To The Future), Joan Cusack and Lolita Davidovich. And as some bright spark pointed out on IMDB, this does have a kinda decent story. Kid falls in love with older woman, she turns about to best friend's mother, the mother has emotional problems, the kid cheats on SAT's to get into university and gets away with it. These are some reasonably interesting plot developments that lesser movies would have either dropped and skirted over. For that reason it's a recommendation. That elevator scene - even now, it drives me nuts.