This is a classic 80's movie that stars a two time Academy Award winner®, who would of thunk that? This is one of those great t*ts and a** movies that requires you to leave your brain at the door.

Rick, played by Tom Hanks (The Terminal,) is a school bus driver with a free spirit and minimal respect for authority. Rick gets engaged to girlfriend Debbie, played by Tawny Kitaen (Three of Hearts,) a woman with an upscale family who does not approve Rick and her father would do anything to break them up. Rick's friends throw him a bachelor party to try and get him to enjoy one last night of freedom. Rick must decide to either be loyal to Debbie or have fun, while dodging Debbie's father and ex-boyfriend who are in the same hotel that the party is located.

Like I said this is one of the simple stories that came out of the 80's. This movie probably had its origins from the 70's classic Animal House, and continued with Stripes, Porky's, and Caddyshack. However, these movies that I have just mentioned, as well as this one, do have a small story in the background that usually test a moral issue that the 90's and modern movies of this genre are missing. For instance, in this movie, the moral dilemma of should a man have sex with another woman before his wedding day. Believe it or not, there are moral issues that are similar in the other movies. We don't see this in Dude, Where's My Car, Road Trip and etc. This is an important difference between the movies.

The story of this movie is a "perfect" movie. What I mean is that every that happens in the story is perfect. Maybe a better explanation is that it is unrealistic. Every joke that needed to be delivered that required a prop, had the right prop for the funniest effect. The result is that this is a hilarious movie but not real, obviously.

Its amazing that Tom Hanks is in this movie. This is his 3rd movie, right after his success in the movie Splash, but still its so silly and the only other real stars were 80's TV hunk Adrian Zmed (TV's TJ Hooker), hot but psycho Tawny Kitean, and the recently departed Wendie Jo Sperber. I can't imagine any other actor in this role and he is great in it, but I bet nobody would have imagined he would be an Academy Award® winner when this movie came out.

The writing is very good and there are many great repeatable lines. The creative team of Real Genius and Police Academy (the first one) Neal Israel and Pat Proft brought us this movie and are very good at dumb hilarious movies, but they have disappeared recently. That's a shame because they are good at the dumb comedy.

Go ahead and watch this movie if you haven't, it's a keeper.

Brian - the Naked Gun