![]() ![]() Premiering on Fox’s Night at the Movies at 7pm on 13th September 1993, you might think it’s hampered by the need to cater to a broad audience – but that’s quickly snuffed out by the R-rated VHS cut from Vidmark, whose sole addition is a naked shower scene as opposed to the towel-wrapped version that appeared on the gogglebox. The potential is there for first-time screenwriter Raul Fernandez to pen something with edge and with guile, but the result is frustratingly flaccid. The most damning aspect of Just One of the Girls is that it’s so unremarkable. Needless to say, it doesn’t go to plan, and he finds himself having to adopt a whole new wardrobe to get through school. Desperate to avoid their lurking presence on the college steps, he adopts a feminine disguise to get himself through the doors, with the intention of a quick bathroom break to revert back to a guy. However, when the opportunity arises to switch schools to take advantage of a prominent music program, he’s unaware that his new place of learning is home to the bullies that have been making his life hell. Sixteen-year-old Chris Calder is a talented musician who harbours the hope of a scholarship that will give him the chance to fulfil his dreams. While Just One of the Girls is no stain on the video store landscape, it certainly falls short of the wit, vibrancy and cultural impact of its unrelated predecessor. It certainly explains the film’s title, with concerned producers hoping to tardily ride the coattails of Lisa Gottlieb’s Just One of the Guys (1985) which pulled in decent box office for Columbia. ![]() In the decade prior it was less of a trend – particularly once you discount the queer-spiced perfection of both The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) – so perhaps that’s why JUST ONE OF THE GIRLS feels a little isolated. Recommended for anyone who can watch any number of Corey Haim's early 90s disasters and actually find them enjoyable.Dave thinks this Corey Haim genderswap comedy could have done with more sass.Ĭomedies that dabble in a little genderswapping go back to the dawn of cinema – though it’s fair to say that it was the early to mid ’00s when they really hit their stride with the likes of The Hot Chick (2002), She’s the Man (2006), It’s a Boy Girl Thing (2006), and White Chicks (2004) (the latter of which even throwing race into the equation). And, I especially cringe at Corey Haim's half-concocted Italian-American accent that reared itself during random moments, not to mention his terrible array of slang, especially in many of the references to women. Nor, does it flip with the sharp turns of the truck and the lack of support by his weight. Or, the finale in which brave Nelson is being dragged from a truck while holding onto a chain link fence that neither eletrocutes him or gets too hot to hold as it is scraped across the pavement for miles. I particularly enjoy the scene in which Nelson and dear old dad, trying to escape from the police by anchoring over a bridge, plunge thousands of feet straight down into shallow, rocky rapids and live to tell the pletely unscathed, mind you. It has all the depth of the notorious 'Cool as Ice' "action" film (ranked as one of the worst 100 movies on IMDb), and about as much of the same cheesy writing. But, the team are not as invincible as they think they are when they're busted for robbing a bank in a squat town in Utah around the same time a stranger to the past enters their lives as does their scheming former partners. Only Nelson's dad expects it to be temporary, wanting his son to go legit so he can end up in law school or business school (the man has no clear idea of his expectations as to which graduate school track he expects his son to take other than whatever will allow an easy transition into white collar crime) much to the chagrin of Nelson, who loves the life of easy money. ![]() After a disagreement among their gang of four which included a clueless doofus and a black belt blonde, Nelson (Corey Haim) and his dad decide to rob banks alone. Fast Getaway is the light-comedy adventures of a team of father-and-son bankrobbers. This being, of course, yet another film in which those not so overly nostlagic will realize that Corey had hit rock bottom and would never recover. Good lord, I've got to stop wasting my money on movies from the post-1989 catalog of Corey Haim (except for Prayer of the Rollerboys, which was a decent surprise).
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