Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

richspenc I don't understand Roger Ebert's review of this film, calling this film dead. This film is anything but dead. Its got actually a fairly unique comical idea to it, a maniquinn coming to life to help give an insecure man confidence. The idea's not totally new, but there have been much more boring films than this. Sure, the film isn't perfect, but there are some pretty amusing moments.Jonathan Switcher (Andrew McCarthy) is a young twenty something who has had continuous bad luck keeping a job, due to his creative side overtaking the practical sides of his jobs that his bosses expect from him. That problem continues to annoy his bosses and gets him fired again and again, and we get to see a colorful montage of this. His girlfriend Roxy (Karen Black, a hot sexy half Italian / half east coast woman who also had an incredibly sexy moment topless on a boat in "Pirrahnas 2") has trouble understanding him too to where she wonders if staying with him is a good idea. Jonathan is an artist type who a lot of people view as someone with his head in the clouds and is not a hard nosed practical type of person.Through a (humorous) by chance situation, Jonathan runs into the elderly owner (Estel Getty) of a department store right outside the store. He saves her from getting injured from a falling sign, she then takes an instant liking to him. Jon asks for a job at the store, she immediately obliges. She introduces Jon to Richards, the store manager, who takes an instant disliking to him. Then Jon meets Felix, the night watchman, who also right away dislikes him. Felix is played by Richard Harris from the "Police Academy" films, and plays the same type of character here, a short tempered but dim witted cop. Jon also meets Hollywood, a very flamboyant man who I found annoying, but who liked Jon. Then, the fantasy part of the film occurs. A manniquin in one of the store windows, the same manniquin that Jon assembled at one of his other jobs, comes to life. She is played by Kim Catrell and plays the manniquin as a very nice and sensual woman who really takes a liking to Jon. Kim was pretty sexy here first in a scene where she started taking off her shirt, and then in several displays during the song "Do you dream about me". I know that song was very much like a late 80s Mtv music video, but I really liked it and it had a great beat. Kim was also pretty sexy in "Sex and the city" in the late 90s. Anyway, Kim helps Jon put together very spectacular window displays and that helps get Estel, the store owner's attention even more positively focused on Jon. Of course, no one but Jon can see the manniquin come to life, causing some people to start thinking he's a little Looney. But to Estel, it doesn't matter because Jon has now greatly helped the store's business, and that's what she cares about. But Jon does lose his girlfriend Roxy and makes other people including Richards and Felix really now hate him. Anyway, I'm not gonna say any more about the film here. Just watch it and enjoy.

lisafordeay I remember this movie a long time ago so here is my review on it.The story is about a young man(played by Andrew McCartney)who works in a department store in New York City. He of course is in love with a girl,but the problem is she isn't real. In actual fact she is of course a mannequin. But when no one is around,the mannequin is magically brought to life(played by a very young Kim Catrell). You see she was cursed a very long time ago as she is of course a mummy so she ends up being transformed into a mannequin and is sent to modern times(you will see this of course in the beginning of the movie). So will Andrew and Kim's charcthers ever get together and can she become human in the end of the movie?Bottom line this is a very contrived movie with a very contrived plot,but if you love a bit of fun and you want to watch a feel good 80s chick flick,then check it out. I enjoyed it as I have seen this film so many times before on TV.6.1/10Also keep an eye out for a hilarious stylist with cool looking sunglasses and Estelle Getty who was in The Golden Girls.

utgard14 Frivolous, fun romantic comedy from the '80s. The basic plot is that a girl (Kim Cattrall) in Ancient Egypt is being forced into a marriage she doesn't want. So she prays to the gods and is magically transported/reincarnated/whatever to the future, where she becomes a mannequin that only comes to life for Andrew McCarthy.I know this movie is almost universally derided but I can't help but love it. It's a sweet, funny, innocently goofy movie that always puts a smile on my face. McCarthy and Cattrall are adorably likable leads. They're helped by a great supporting cast, including Estelle Getty and Meshach Taylor. Not to mention a soundtrack of great '80s songs. In a lot of ways, this movie reminds me of old comedies from the 1930s or 40s. It doesn't care if every little detail of the fantasy plot makes sense. It's just trying to show the audience a good time and, in my case at least, it accomplishes that.

DottoreHolliday Evidently, the IMDb Users are not familiar with the farce as a theatrical form - a comic dramatic work that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable. Farces are often highly incomprehensible plot-wise (due to the large number of plot twists and random events that occur), but viewers are encouraged not to try to follow the plot in order to avoid becoming confused and overwhelmed. Farce is also characterized by physical humor, the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense, broadly stylized performances (buffoonery and horseplay) and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.Here a great cast of character actors and a supernatural plot, adds up to a farce. A form where great character actors Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, James Spader, G.W. Bailey and Mesach Taylor can ham it up and overact for the laughs. Even the minor players Carole Davis, Steve Vinovich and Christopher Maher continue the broadly played comedic characters with an excess of ham and absurdity. It's just fun and a guilty pleasure.It you didn't get either, you must have checked your sense of humor at the opening credits or you've become too sophisticated for I Love Lucy or the Three Stooges and that is sad.