Director Penny Marshall nicely allows Whoopi room to flex her comic muscles while also taking advantage of her sassy and streetwise humor.
Whoopi is the best thing about this otherwise silly and contrived plot. This sets into motion wild adventures in which she puts her life at risk and gets involved with everything from the CIA to foreign government powers. One day she gets a message from someone using the code name Jumpin’ Jack Flash who asks for her help supposedly to save his life. In this one she plays Terry Doolittle a bank employee who does a lot of transactions and communications through her computer. Critically her films in that decade did not fare well and she has even disowned a few, but since this is a 80’s movie blog I feel it is my professional duty to review them anyways whether some of them are torturous to sit through or not. Due to Whoopi Goldberg turning 58 on November 13 th and because whenever I watch a clip of ‘The View’ on YouTube she tends to be my favorite panelist I have decided to review each of the films she starred in during the 80’s for the next 7 Mondays.
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