Tracs Movie Reviews

A comedy almost classic. I am more disapointed in this multi pro cameo line up with Katheryn in awe playing with them. Her tennis and golf swings are amusing to watch as the balls dribble off to the sides. Watch this when you are bored and cann't sleep.

Pat and Mike is a lovely story of a star athlete, played by Katharine Hepburn, who is discovered by a sport's manager, Spencer Tracy. Hepburn's character realizes that she is going to be watched every minute of every day while in training. This companionship between athlete and manager finally turns to love.
In Pat and Mike, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy again play opposite each other. Hepburn also gets to show off the skills in sports and physical agility, which she posesses in real life.

MGM does a grand job in restoring this 1952 comedy classic to DVD perfection!!! Presented in Black/White, Standard Screen size (4:3 tv aspect ratio - before WideScreen (1953)).

This was Spencer Tracy's & Katherine Hepburn's 7th film together and as always are Classic Team mates!!! Now digitally remastered and on DVD makes it even better. Flawlessly digitalized makes the picture quality absolutely astounding to watch. Hepburns athletism can be more appreciated especially during the golf scenes when she drives the balls into the far distance (only now can we see these tiny spheres in the distance with DVD clarity!).

Summary; Masterfully directed by George Cukor, Athletic Pat (Hepburn) plays a very skillful amateur female sports nut who seems trapped in a rich socialite engaged to be married life. Mike (Tracy) a sports promoter eyes Hepburn in a Pro-Amatuer Golf match & sees a gold mine to be had. Hustling her to turn pro & be his client Hepburn decides this is a way to escape her miserable dominating fiances & to be married life. Hepburn shows hows some amazing athletic talents in golf & tennis. Tracy & Hepburn are a grand pair to watch & Hollywoods 1950's happy ending prevails. This is a keeper and the DVD is a beauty!

Special Features include: Cast & Crew, Behind the Scenes, Theatrical Teaser & Trailer.

Pat & Mike is great family entertainment & Katherine Hepburn shows how women can be independent (wearing slacks), athletic (amazing golfer& tennis player) & feminine (beautiful & vunerable) all in one. Enjoy.

This DVD wasn't good enough to buy. I rented it, and it had a few good scenes. As the previous reviewer mentioned, there is a nice Jacqueline Lovell bathtub segment with another girl here, probably the best segment of the whole DVD.

There were quite a few attractive girls here, but many were small-chested. If you have a preference for smaller women, you might enjoy this one. I don't remember seeing any Playmates or any other Playboy models. Most of the girls here were unknowns.

There were several scenes here, maybe 12 or 13, and some were cut together really short. One really cute Asian girl had a 1 minute segment only.

Another Playboy DVD that is worth a rental, but not worthy of buying and keeping in my collection.

This is a fair effort from Playboy. Most of the scenes involve women pushing away from their computers so they can dance about while removing their clothes. Pretty boring. There is one great bit with Jacqueline Lovell (of the famous "Roommates" chapter of "Freshman Class") sharing a bath with another nice looking woman.

This DVD was very good I think. It didn't have bonus features like some of the other Playboy DVD's, though. The women were very attractive and their were plenty of them. I reccomend this if you just like to see beautiful naked women because the " plot " was pointless. Even though I can't imagine anyone being interested in the story.

I think the writer who wrote this film had his head up his ass
Mark Dacascos did not kick Jims ass at the end as far as i am
concerned, Jim kicked Marks ass. People want to see the bad guy loose in a fight not the good guy. I bet all the money in the world people who see this film will think the same way I do. It was a total
dissapointment. This film should not have made it to the video store.

SYNOPSIS:
A WOMAN MUST CONFRONT HER HUSBAND THAT SHE HELPED TO PUT AWAY AFTER HE BREAKS OUT OF A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.
(SHE DOES SO AFTER FINDING OUT THAT HE IS A KILLER/MURDERER)
SHE ENLISTS THE HELP OF A PERSONAL DEFENSE TRAINER TO HELP PREPARE HER SHOULD HE COME TO GET HER.
SO BUCKLE YOUR SEATBELTS FOR INSTINCT TO KILL!!!
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THIS WAS A FANTASTIC MOVIE WITH SOME COOL ACTION/FIGHT SEQUENCES INTACT. ALSO, THE ACTING WAS QUITE BELIEVABLE.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT TO THE THRILLER ENTHUSIAST.
I'M SURE THAT I WILL ENJOY THIS FILM FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
THIS DIRECT-TO-VIDEO RELEASE RUNS CIRCLES AROUND MANY OF THE MOVIES THAT ARE RELEASED THEATRICALLY.
SO, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND SEE INSTINCT TO KILL.
YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPOINTED!!!
-JOHN SENECA

If you like action movies, this is for you. It also has some psycolgical aspects to it. If you are a Mark Dacascos fan then this movie is also for you. This is one of his best films. It's an all around great movie.

This is a pretty good DVD among the Playboy titles which feature college girls. There were 9 video segments, each about 6 minutes each, with a brief 30-second interview before each segment with the girls to be shown.

All of these girls appear to be college girls or maybe amateur models, but none were Playmates or models who have appeared in other Playboy DVDs or magazines. The girls certainly had the "look" of college girls than of professional models. It looks like model Lisa Boyle on the cover, but she is nowhere to be seen on the DVD.

Most of the 9 segments featured one girl presented with different various themes. The best ones were a lovely hottie stripping in the library as 2 male voyeurs watched and a perky blonde co-ed disrobing in front of her professor. Other segments showed vignettes of a girl doing her laundry (including the clothes she was wearing), one meditating doing yoga exercises, and another being the campus radio DJ.

3 of the segments did show more than one girl. The best segment on the whole DVD was a nice 5 minute girl-girl scene between two petite co-eds in their dorm room. Nothing explicit, just touching and massaging. The other scenes with more than one girl involved a car wash scene and a nude sunbathing scene.

By far, this DVD is better than the Playboy's College Girls title, but maybe not as spicy as the Freshman Class DVD which featured Playboy models and B-movie actresses. This is a slightly older title, released by Image in 1997, and the video quality is somewhat grainy in certain scenes, not nearly as sharp and crisp as many of the newer Universal releases are.

This is still a worthy pickup as long as you aren't expecting to see Playmates on here.

Dont get me wrong I love fresh naked woman dancing around. But I would prefer a little more action. The whole time watching it I was just waiting for something to happen, sometimes got half and half bored. These girls are hot, there naked and they are together. But they dont actually do anything together. If you are going to have a two girl scene at least let them excite each other. Or even if they are alone let them comfort themselves. This is the main thing lacking in this movie and it exactly what the people that buy these movies are looking for. They dont actually play with what we want them to and I have found this the same with other Penthouse and Playboy films

Man, there are a ton of hot chicks in this thing. More then I've seen in all the porns I have. Get this thing. They all get naked! And you know what happens when hot college chicks get naked don't you. Well, If you do tell me, cause I want to know. This is something you must have!

I think my title says it all. It was directionless and pointless. The only character that elicited any sympathy at all was Doug, and even he seemed to be drifting without any purpose. Even the gay issue failed to elicit any tension between the characters. I kept wondering when the plot would start, but it didn't

I bought this video based on the reviews and was so disappointed that I never got past the first 20 minutes. I am not a prude, but to use the f word in every sentene as an adjective, verb and however else it may be used was a complete turnoff. I put the video in my recycle box. Maybe it had some substance, but I could not get past the first 20 minutes

Norman Reedus just might be the new River Phoenix in this sweet & heartfelt film. I personally liked the way the Writer didn't base this movie with a strong "Gay Issue", he kept Doug (Chad Lowe) in the closet to his pals & I love the way Van (Norman Reedus) finds out his new friend is homosexual. I sympathized with Doug in many ways, as from being out & seeing how a father can live in denial for so long. I felt the script as well as the characters themselves did a great job! My hats off to you, the makers & actors/actresses of "Floating". A must buy/rent!

This is one of those low-budget movies that is so bad that it actually is good. It's in the usual '60s teen-beach-bikini-party genre of old Elvis movies, but with much less taste and quality. I love it, though, because it's obscure and pure '60s in style, the music is good and pure '60s, it has Jayne Mansfield & some decent gags, and there is some passable Florida scenery. What a pity: with a few changes in scenery and story and camera angles it could've been a classic.

Describing this movie is like describing the love of a child or incense smoke rising, but I will do my best. The Fat Spy is a story as old as time itself, the ongoing search for the Fountain of Youth. Only this time our heroes discover that the Fountain is not actually a fountain of water, but two black twin roses growing from the same stem.

Well I'm sure everyone buys or sees this movie for one reason, Jayne Mansfield, so let's talk about her. I've never seen her as heavy as she did in this movie. Granted she is still beautiful and stunning, but the hourglass figure is gone as she is a bit thick in the middle. By modern spaghetti-thin model standards, she could even be described as fat, but to me who can appreciate a fine woman, she looked great. One scene has her wrapped in only what can be described as the happiest towel in Hollywood. You get some great cleavage and chest shots as she dries herself. She also sings a number to her love interest 'Irving'. Unfortunately, this film will not cement Jayne's acting abilities for immortality. Let's face it, she was what she was. A great body and a rival (ha ha) to Marilyn Monroe. Jayne seems to go out of her way to act just like her with the dreamy, whispery voice and dumb blonde routine that Marilyn found inescapable as her career went on. In one scene where Jayne is tied to an AC unit she screams for help. She suddenly pauses and turns to the camera and pathetically starts doing the Marilyn pout and blowing kisses.

This film which was probably filmed on a budget that couldn't drive a car across the country was shot on a lake which was supposed to be a beach. This film is actually a musical and any excuse possible is used to throw in bad singing and worse dancing. Take for instance the song sang before the opening credits even start. "When people got money, they sure act funny". One scene has the teenage group on the beach deciding they need to go to Cape Coral after 'discovering' a sign posted by a Florida Tourist attraction. All the girls swim out to the boat to start it up, while the guys all make their way to the dock, where quite handily, drums and guitars are found. They sing a number while waiting for the girls to pull up with the boat. Another song is sung by Phyllis Diller. She mostly talks words to music rather than singing, so there is some mercy here. However the drop on the floor and laugh until you cry scene is the 'Everybody do the Turtle' song. The song is so terrible, it will linger in your head for days.

There are some loose ends that don't quite tie up as the movie ends. One kid goes fishing in a rubber raft (he sings a song while fishing of course), and catches a mermaid. Well after going back to shore he decides he loves her and wants to go find her. He starts moping around and the last mention of him is his clothes are found on the shore. Reckon he swam out naked to find his love.

The film quality is terrible, even on DVD. The picture is grainy and the sound is horrible. At times you can't hear the lines because the surf is too loud. Then there are the cartoon balloons that try to move the movie along and attempt to assist the viewer in the progress of the film. Just before the ending credits there were promises of upcoming movies: The Return of Fat Spy, Bride of Fat Spy, and Son of Fat Spy. I'm still looking, but haven't found them yet.

All in all this movie rules. My wife's quote "Oh you owe me big for making me sit through this."

It's funny that American-International is commonly thought of as the low-budget, bottom of the barrel studio of the '60s, when watching something like "The Fat Spy" immediately proves that A.I.P.'s movies were the archetype or model for any number of obscure regional productions like this one. The thing is - the Texas or Florida knockoffs have an entirely different and much better feel to them.

"The Fat Spy" takes the "Beach Party" model of healthy, squeaky-clean All-American teens and populates its landscape with raggedy, locally-recruited Florida kids. Hardly "Annette" caliber, they sport excessive tattoos, withering bouffants, dribbling cat-eye makeup and all seem to smoke incessantly. Instead of frolicking on the blue Pacific beaches, they gently tread on the seaweedy, brown water shores of Cape Coral, Florida, which is actually on the Caloosahatchee RIVER. Why they didn't just drive another 30 miles to Ft. Myers or Sanibel Island is beyond me. It's fun for people familiar with this area to see it before it devolved into another strip-mall wasteland.

The plot is totally incomprehensible. I've watched it three times and have no idea what is happening. The songs are earache-inducingly bad. But it is incredibly hypnotic, with the aforementioned oddball locations and a cast (Mansfield, Diller) who are already a bit surreal-looking to begin with. Points especially to Jayne who ticked off "beach party" in her expanding list of exploitation genres during this period, including countryploitation (Las Vegas Hillbillies), sword-and-sandal (The Loves of Hercules), mondo movies (Primitive Love), and finally her post-mortem JAYNEploitation (Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield). Too bad she never did a straight-up horror movie.

As for the DVD - big points off for the cruddy packaging, featuring misspelled names of both Diller and Jack Leonard on the cover (!) and an unrelated photo of Jayne which was easily taken ten years before this movie was made. No extras and a sub-par full-frame mastering with lots of artifacting, although it is easily better than VHS copies. At least it is bargain-priced.

Now, this may read strangely coming from a Jaglom fan, and a young father at that, but "Babyfever" was excrutiating to watch. I made it roughly midway and had to (1) stop, (2) rewind and (3)return. Sorry.

Having recently discovered Jaglom's films, particularly Eating, and Last Summer in the Hamptons which featured the charming Melanie Mayron look-alike Victoria Foyt (and Jaglom's wife), I was curious about this title. However the extreme reactions of the existing reviews gave me caution. The format is similar to Eating, where straight to camera interviews are intercut with a narrative. Jaglom's strength is in presenting cinema verite conversations between actors, but since he takes nearly an hour to begin the baby shower that the cast assemble for, we have to endure Foyt with Matt Salinger. These scenes feel improvised to the miniscule degree and Foyt overplays her discomfort, especially when she barks to release tension. Her energy in general here seems lower than it was in Hamptons, and soon her anguish over Salinger and whether or not she is pregant to him becomes tiresome. There is an unnecessary diversion with Zack Norman as the husband of the shower hostess, Norman being the least talented of the Jaglom/Emil/Norman triumvirate. Thankfully Eric Roberts turns up for one scene (odd casting even for Jaglom) as a past suitor and brings some edge. However things pick up for the shower when the film populates. Jaglom amusingly shows us a wall of cascading water to coincide with the confirmed pregnant women, though surprisingly the one with a born child is removed quickly. Foyt is better when she has scenes with the deep-voiced Dinah Henney, and scores a laugh when the aforementioned baby reacts badly to her. I liked Henney's line referring to Salinger, that you can't marry someone who deals in golf metaphors. The range of opinions expressed to camera covers alternative views, including career women with no interest in childbirth, a lesbian couple, women married to men who don't want children, those infertile, and those who believe motherhood has deprived them of careers. We also get a female doctor on hand, who herself looks pregnant, to deliver technical advice which bogs down proceedings. Perhaps the confessions have less depth and reveal less pain than the shameful feelings on display in Eating, but I guess this topic is less prone to such negative emotions. Unlike the end of Eating where Jaglom identified each actor by face and name, there are some quirky touches that I am unable to attach to an actor, though perhaps not being able to identify the singer who delivers some bum notes in her performance is a blessing.

Like all of Henry Jaglom films, Babyfever will only appeal to the top 20% of the world's population that are intelligent enough to understand and appreciate the genius of Henry Jaglom's films and who actually bother to honestly think about where their lives have been, presently are, seem to be going, and why. This film is a MUST SEE for all who've had children and who still can have children or who plan to have families through alternative means. There has never been a film before or since that maps out the treacherous territory of contemporary motherhood. Those who love this movie should also be sure to read Anne Crittenden's "The Price of Motherhood" for further discussion and exploration of these issues. This film is one of my favorite films of ALL TIME!

This is a piece of junk. Do not waste your money.

Savage comes back from the war to find out his crush when he was little has a boyfriend but the 2 end up being married. Mitchum and Carradine seem miscast but that doesnt count the fact of the good story and good performances by the leading man and woman. god I want to just, take Kinski home and butter her up, lick her, prop her on the couch. shes a lover in my eyes. there are some scenes with her where I just shivered and my jaw dropped, shes a goddess

Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's "Maria's Lovers" is definitly my favorite film. There is nothing too flashy or groundbreaking about this film, in fact it is very subtle. However, it is one of the finest love stories I've ever seen, and John Savage's performance is in my opinion the best I've ever seen. I don't think a film has ever moved me so much. The story is very real and I think the themes and values behind this film are very important and are ones that contemporary Americans often forget about. If you have a taste for European movies and you don't mind a quiet serious drama, this film is really quite exceptional. In my opinion, it's one of the most overlooked and underated films of the 1980's (there aren't many good ones from that decade). I can't believe how low profile it was considering Nasstasia Kinski was the most popular film actress when it was released in 1984. In fact the most attention it has recieved is that is is being released on DVD, which I'm so grateful to MGM for. I hope the DVD market continues releasing unusual and /or conventional films.

In the climatic moment of one of the great film scripts of all time, "The Verdict" by David Mamet, attorney Edward Concannon (James Mason) implores the judge, "We can't be expected to accept a (photo)copy when we have the original." Many consider Truffaut's 1977 "L'homme qui aimait les femmes" a wonderful film. Anyone who has seen this original, need not venture to this 1983 remake, the land of Blake Edwards, his family and his friends.

This film likely falls under the category of 'the studio still needs another film from me (Edwards) and I have not a single inspired idea'.

Don't get me wrong. I'm an avid fan of Edwards, and consider many of his films (notably Days of Wine and Roses, Breakfast at Tiffanys, S.O.B., and Operation Petticoat to ALL be amongst my favorites. Of course the Pink Panther series is a masterpiece in and of itself.

But this film is weak, and uninspired, laden with narrative-I've never really figured who came up with the idea of opening a 'comedy' with the main character's funeral, and an accompanying heart-wrenching eulogy from one of his lovers.

Don't accept a copy when the original is available.

Too slick, hip and cool for my britches. An Americanization of a European classic that doesn't work. Funny for American audience tastes, but too physical, too materialistic in its approach for my liking.

There's a spiritual element to the Truffault version that's missing in the American one with Mr. Reynolds. The French one is more subtle, deeper and sincere.

Blake Edwards's 1983 remake of Francois Truffaut's classic, "The Man Who Loved Women" (1977) has the basic elements of countless adult films: it plays like an extended male/female sexual fantasy. Male viewers may place themselves in the role of David Fowler (Burt Reynolds), the stud who can be loved, adored, and physically satisfied by scores of women at once; female viewers will adore Burt's sensitive, artistic, sexually aggressive male lover. Thus, on a psychological level, Edwards's film is completely unrealistic hogwash; it treats its subject with half-seriousness, half-camp, and becomes extremely dull. Blake Edwards scores in a few areas ignored by Truffaut, however; first, he includes a riotously funny subplot where Fowler travels to Texas and has an affair with an oilman's wife (Kim Basinger) who is turned on by sexual activity in high-risk places. (When Basinger tries to seduce Reynolds in an empty hotel room, he warns her, "Oh, no! I know how you operate. There's some sort of danger here, isn't there? What is there, an Elk's Club meeting here tonight?") Second, Edwards exploits Reynolds's image as the sweet-talking ladykiller to perfection; it becomes extremely satisfying to hear Reynolds wheedle his way into womens' lives with carefully-chosen words and phrases.

Any fan of Spencer Tracy will like this movie. None of his movies move fast but at an even pace. The effects are good, even by todays standards. If you like Tracy in "Bad Day at Black Rock" or "The Mountain" you will like this movie. If you enjoy any of the older disaster movies you will certainly find this worth watching. If you like movies with characters fighting personal problems while trying to stay alive from a disaster you will like it. Quite honestly if anyone doesn't enjoy it they just have to short of an attention span.

But not so much as an adult. Children up to their early teens should still enjoy it though.

This movie was one of the orginal "disaster films," originating the genre. Actually, only part of the film was shot on Maui (mostly around Lahaina and the Maui Needle). The rest was done with some amazing soundstages. The volcano (built in the middle of a pond in Fallbrook, California) provided stock footage for many films that came after, and you'll be amazed how realistic the earthquake shots look. All this with low-tech special effects!

If you are bored or unaffected by the actual movie, you're way too jaded to be watching this human drama of an alcoholic priest whose life and vocation have lost their meaning. Go watch a blockbuster disaster flick and root for the special effects. Yeah, it's a little hokily sentimental at times, but I've shown this one to friends who marvelled at what a great story of human experience it told, got a lump in their throats at the end, etc. Then they recommended it to their friends. (Admittedly, Sinatra is NOT at his best. However, Spencer Tracy and the rest of the cast carry the movie.)

(Yes, my father was the art director, which is how I know so much about the special effects and technical aspects, but it's still one of my all-time favorite films, even discounting that.)