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MichelleDuMaurier
I saw myself in tomboy Jo Polniaczek, and had a crush on Luke Brower long before he was Romeo or Jack, when the rest of the world caught up. I heard my mother squeal with delight at the end of the Newhart finale before explaining the joke to me. When Clair Huxtable explained Blossom’s period to her by icing a cake, she explained it to me, as well.
As a kid, I longed to have a mother, and ultimately be a wife and mother, like Clair Huxtable or Elyse Keaton. These women were smart, beautiful, engaging, and yet always had time to sit with and explain things to their kids. In reality, I became a mother like Jackie Harris or Frankie Heck- never quite having things together, but definitely always doing my absolute best.
More modern shows I’ve enjoyed and recommend are Monk, Bones, Pushing Up Daisies (which died too soon because of a writer’s strike, but which would have thrived if made today as an original for a streaming service), My Name is Earl (which was groundbreaking when it aired: bringing a cable sensibility of budget, aesthetics, music, etc, to network television. We moved out of the four-six room sets of a home or workplace of a traditional sitcom with Earl and into the fully fleshed out Camden County with cast of recurring characters and a million Easter Eggs for fans
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18 Again! (1988)
18 Again! Didn't Age Well at All SHOULD HAVE BEEN PG13 OR R
My 20 yo son and I had a blast watching several "body swap" films: 13 Going on 30, 18 Again, Freaky Friday (2003), Freaky Friday (1976), and The Shaggy D. A.
So when I saw that George Burns had made 18 Again!, I put it on hoping we'd have a blast watching a classic star in a film set up we like. I knew going into it that it likely hadn't aged well. It's a comedy from 1988, and a lot that passed for comedy then is really just gross- but I was willing to give it a watch, understanding it's a comedy of its time, and hoping the payoff of genuine laughs would be worth the tradeoff of the uncomfortably gross moments. Nope! This one just doesn't hold up.
We only watched the first 30-40 minutes. But in that short time, we saw:
* Grandpa's voluptuous companion strongly hitting on Grandson
* A male professor lecherously offering to "help" a female student and putting his hand on her shoulder
* Grandpa flirting shamelessly with a young waitress and her giggling with "delight" (yeah, right; in the director's dreams)
* An art class scene with a nude model includes lingering scenes with full frontal and full rear nudity.
What a disappointment. We'd disliked several scenes, but kept watching hoping it would get better. It didn't, so we turned it off.
It was nice to see a young Pauly Shore in a supporting role before his BioDome/Encino Man Era, and I'm giving it two stars because I did really enjoy seeing George Burns wax nostalgic while singing a song.