It took four screen writers (let's leave them, with mercy, anonymous) to come up with a story that has no real character conflict, and director Penny Marshall, in her debut, doesn't help them any. She comes to his aid, which gets her into all sorts of madcap scrapes with the CIA, the KGB, British intelligence and the local constabulary.Īs another in the genre of "bored woman lives out romantic underworld fantasy," "Jumpin' Jack Flash" falls far short of "Romancing the Stone" or even "American Dreamer," which is about as short as it gets. What makes Whoopi whoop? As Terry Doolittle, she meanders through dull days as a computer programmer, until one day she gets a message on her screen from one "jumpin' Jack Flash," who turns out to be a British spy in trouble. As Whoopi Goldberg screams and hollers and carries on, you become intimate with her incisors, molars and bicuspids, discovering a set of chompers that would be the envy of a backhoe, and which, on one occasion, she sinks into an unfortunate man's groin.
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" would appear to be a movie about modern dentistry.
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