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Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
6/11
6/11:
I don't know about you, but every time I see Peggy Sue Got Married, I feel like nothing happens.
It's just a one big time travel to experience the nostalgia. Is that the case, or did Francis Ford Coppola catch
the American Graffiti/Diner fever? Either way, it
doesn't work for me, and I've missed the whole point (as if there was ever one). It seems like Peggy Sue never grew up or learned
anything from the trip. Her intelligence, whether it's before or after, is profoundly average.
The acting is okay, but almost everybody is corny. The oft-repeated line "Why, I oughta...," which is from the Three Stooges,
is stale, dragging the pace down. Look at Jim Carrey who makes it all worse by portraying a drug addict for the umpteenth
time. Hey, Jim, it's time for you to lay off the coke. Nicolas Cage is over the top in a bad way.
The whole poet thing is ridiculous because it's apparent that Michael Fitzsimmons is a giant flake. If he's super
mysterious in a James Dean way, it might have worked, but the fact is: Kevin J. O'Connor is wrong for the role.
Not likeable for the slightest bit, Kathleen Turner isn't into her character. All Peggy Sue wants to do is change the fact
that she's married to Charlie. Yet it means her two children will never be born. Now, is that a great sci-fi way of
performing an abortion?
There are some moments that go unexplained. One example is seeing an old high school friend in the wheelchair. So, what
happened? The other is the bowl of red M&Ms. What's that all about? I had to look up the internet to find out. It turns out
a synthetic dye on them was linked to cancer. Like I would know. How Peggy Sue acted around certain people seems to
indicate they had died sometime the next twenty-five years. But how did they and when?
All in all, I admit that Peggy Sue Got Married is a charming film, but it has a lot of problems.