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Bachelor Party<\/strong> (1984)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20th<\/sup> Century Fox\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 105 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (crude sexual humor, graphic nudity, language, comic violence, drugs)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Neal Israel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Neal Israel and Pat Proft\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Robert Folk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Hal Trussell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 29, 1984 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart, Robert Prescott, William Tepper, Wendie Jo Sperber, Barry Diamond, Gary Grossman, Michael Dudikoff, Bradford Bancroft, Martina Finch, Deborah Harmon, Tracy Smith, Florence Schauffler, Sumant, John Bloom, Kenneth Kimmins, Gerard Prendergast, Brett Clark, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Rosanna Katon, Dani Douthette, Katie Mitchell, Christopher Morley, Toni Alessandrini, Monique Gabrielle, Angela Aames.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $38.4 million (US)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: ****<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Looking back, I\u2019d have to say 1984 was a good year for funny movies. It was a year that saw the release of Hot Dog… The Movie, Police Academy, Sixteen Candles, Up the Creek, Revenge of the Nerds and Bachelor Party<\/strong>. That last one is in my Top 5. It\u2019s a wild, wanton comedy about that great American tradition commonly known as a bachelor party. It\u2019s essentially the last hurrah for young men about to leave behind singlehood for a life of wedded bliss. It\u2019s a rite of passage known to occasionally spin out of control. In this case, that\u2019s a gross understatement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0When school bus driver\/party animal Rick Gassko (Hanks, Splash) announces to his guy pals that he plans to marry his girlfriend Debbie (Kitaen, Witchboard), they can\u2019t believe it. Why would he ever want to do that? Then his best bud Jay (Zmed, Grease 2) suggests they throw him a bachelor party. Not just any bachelor party, but the mother of all bachelor parties, one with \u201cchicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze\u201d. Of course, Debbie is less than thrilled when she hears about it. Worried that he\u2019ll screw around at the party, she makes him promise to stay true to her.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Not everybody is happy about Rick and Debbie\u2019s upcoming nuptials. Her snobbish parents are at the tippy-top of that list. Dad (Grizzard, Seems Like Old Times) makes his feelings about Rick\u2019s character crystal clear. Then he conspires with her creep of an ex-boyfriend Cole (Prescott, Real Genius) to stop the wedding from taking place.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Now that I\u2019ve given you the set-up, let\u2019s talk about the crazy characters that populate Bachelor Party<\/strong>. Rick\u2019s friends include rough and tough Rudy (Diamond, National Lampoon\u2019s Class Reunion), temperamental geek Gary (Grossman, Leprechaun 4: In Space) and addle-brained Ryko (Dudikoff, American Ninja). Oh, let\u2019s not forget the wild card of the bunch Brad (Bancroft, Dangerously Close), a super-manic sort despondent over his own failed marriage. He\u2019s described by Rick\u2019s physician brother Stan (Tepper, Breathless) as being \u201cwhacked out of his brains on drugs\u201d. In layman\u2019s terms, he\u2019s nuts. On the bride\u2019s side, we have her best friends Bobbi (Smith, Hot Dog… The Movie) and bubble-headed Phoebe (Finch, The Lonely Guy) as well as man-hating cousin Ilene (Harmon, Used Cars) and Stan\u2019s hot-tempered wife Tina (Sperber, Back to the Future).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Once the party gets into full swing, after the usual setback or two, Bachelor Party<\/strong> turns into this zany comedy where anything and everything goes. The soiree goes down in a fancy hotel suite that you know will be thoroughly trashed by the time the festivities are over and we all know these things aren\u2019t over until the cops show up to bust everybody. They certainly have probable cause. The place is wall-to-wall drugs, hookers and good-natured debauchery. Speaking of which, There\u2019s some confusion over the hookers (Cole\u2019s doing, of course), but Gary ultimately comes through thanks to a pimp that bears a striking resemblance to Gandhi. The whole thing ends in a wild chase with Rick and his friends in his school bus pursuing Cole after he abducts Debbie during the after-party chaos at the hotel. They end up at a 36-theater multiplex that shows only 3D movies. Like I said, this is one wild affair and I haven\u2019t even mentioned \u201cNick the Dick\u201d or the scenario involving a dancing girl and a mule.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As a teen, I watched Bachelor Party<\/strong> on a fairly regular basis. It always made me laugh. It still does. Directed by Neal Israel (Moving Violations), it\u2019s one of those movies with nothing but funny scenes. One of my favorite bits is Rick\u2019s lunch with Debbie\u2019s uptight family. In this scene, we see the inspired comic actor that Hanks is. He saves his fat and whistles in case they have a dog. He says he plans to adopt a 17YO Korean girl after the wedding. He introduces himself to Cole as \u201cBond. James Bond.\u201d Bachelor Party<\/strong> really hits its stride when the party starts. If you look closely at some scenes, you\u2019ll see funny things happening behind the main action. It adds nicely to the madness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Hanks is well cast in the lead. The character he plays here is surprisingly believable, especially in the midst of all the unbelievable goings-on. He\u2019s not just some generic wild man; he\u2019s a young single man questioning his decision to get married. He tries talking to his friends and brother about it, but their advice is of little use. His devotion to Debbie is the heart and soul of this raunchy comedy. Kitaen does a pretty good as the fiancee who proves girls can play as dirty as guys. At one point, she and her friends disguise themselves as hookers to spy on Rick. It definitely helps that Tawny is insanely HOT! Zmed has some good moments as a professional photographer with an affinity for big-bosomed mothers. He can sing too; he belts out a great number (\u201cLittle Demon\u201d) at the party. Bancroft nearly steals the show as Brad, a suicidal nutcase that tires to slash his wrists with an electric razor. Grizzard is a perfect bastard as the disapproving future father-in-law. Barbara Stuart (Airplane!) is good as Debbie\u2019s mother often shocked by what\u2019s going on around her.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Bachelor Party<\/strong> is the epitome of outrageousness. It\u2019s funny in both actions and words. Some of the lines are absolutely priceless. It\u2019s crude, chaotic and sometimes tasteless. It\u2019s a lot of things, but one thing it\u2019s not is mean-spirited. Sure, it features scenes of characters being humiliated in some way, but it\u2019s usually deserved. This movie is 100% in the spirit of good, not-so-clean fun. Hey, I don\u2019t mind getting a little dirty if it\u2019s this much fun.<\/p>\r\n Bachelor Party (1984)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20th Century Fox\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 105 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (crude sexual humor, graphic nudity, language, comic violence, drugs)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Neal Israel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Neal Israel and Pat Proft\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Robert Folk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Hal Trussell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: June 29, 1984 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart, Robert Prescott, William […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thats-some-funny-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bachelor-Party-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Bachelor-Party-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C943&ssl=1\")
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