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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 (like as if there's ever one). It
seems 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 unexplained moments. One example is the old high school friend in 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 Peggy Sue Got Married is a charming film, but it has a lot of problems.