Vibes

"Vibes" is an overlooked gem, waiting to be discovered. It's faults (weak special effects, and underdeveloped script) are swamped by the enthusiastic performances of Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum. There are so many quick one liners that could easily be missed, multiple viewings are almost mandatory. Peter Falk delivers some real gems too. I can see why the film never found an audience, because it is very silly in parts, yet knives in the back are nothing to laugh at. I say this, go in expecting some dark humor along with endearing acting from Lauper and Goldblum and you will not be disappointed. Simply come along for the ride and leave logic at home. - MERK

In this comedy, the underhanded Harry Buscafusco (Peter Falk) tricks two naive psychics, Sylvia Pickel (Cyndi Lauper) and Nick Deezy (Jeff Goldblum), into helping him locate a hidden treasure in Ecuador. This film is terrible. This was a film that was meant to launch Cyndi Laupner's film career. It didn't. The film was written by Deborah Blum Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel. However they seem not to know if it wanted to be a rip-off "Ghostbusters" or "Romancing the Stone". A week after the film opened to bad box office and bad reviews Cyndi said "Hey I didn't write it or direct it". SHe she did however contribute the song "A Hole in My Heart That Goes All the Way To China". That song was also a disaster. It was to be included or her upcoming record album but she had it remove to further remove herself from the film. Peter Falk also has a part in this but its not a big enough part to save this piece of crap! 30 years you will be hard pressed to see a DVD release or see anybody involved with the film willing to talk about it.

One of those times when you wonder how all that talent and money could result in such an utter TOAD of a movie! The part where Cyndi grabs the pyramid and goes into what I guess is supposed to be a mystic trance is truly embarrassing to watch. Cyndi Lauper was a great performer as a singer, and I would argue that singers become successful actors more often than actors become successful singers. (Cher, Bruce Willis...rest my case) Cyndi, unfortunately, apparently learned her dramatic chops from Hulk Hogan, and has all the natural screen presence of a biological specimen. As for Jeff Goldblum, I admit I've never really 'got' his appeal. All his characters are the same smirking, self-satisfied, yet slightly nerdish guy...interesting enough I suppose...once. Still, he has been in one or two decent movies, but this...this....words fail me.... This movie is to dumb to even make 'cult' status.

"Vibes" is another loser from the 1980s as Peter Falk hires psychics Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum to find his lost son. It turns out that they are really looking for a temple far, far away where the world's psychic energy comes from. A real yawner that tries to be funny, but is just plain tedious. 2 stars out of 5.

I do not like many rock-pop stars especially of the '80s and '90s because of the violent nihilism and eroticism of their music. But I liked Cindy Lauper ever since she sang Time After Time. If one simply ignores the naughty entendre of some her songs like Girls Wanna Have Fun, you can feel that she exudes the aura and exuberance of the teenybop, bubblegum crowd which formed the base of her fans at the zenith of her popularity in the '80s despite the fact that she belongs to another age group altogether. Cyndi is funny and can definitely act. Pity that up to now comedic actresses are still under-appreciated. However, we can look to the past and take solace in the fact that actresses like Fanny Brice, Myrna Loy, Barbra Streisand and Goldie Hawn all enjoy sizeable cult followers. Full of witty and hilarious repartees, Vibes is worth viewing over and over. Just looking at Cyndi's cutely expressive rubber face a la Goldie Hawn is enough to drive away all ennui.

Whatever the quality of the acting, the scenery, the locations etc., this movie is just good clean fun - so much so that you can see the actors themselves grinning during certain scenes. There are some great one-liners, some unique actions - find the "handshake" at the racetrack for a good example. The opening music is dramatic (low end's are cool) and Cyndi's closing number is a classic. Yes, this film is not as sophisticated as many others but who want's sophistication all the time? I've chilled out in front of this movie several times and find it as endearing and never one I'd want to sleep through! If you get a chance to see it, then do so - chill out, have a laugh!

I think Vibes was a very funny film. Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper were very cute together and Peter Falk was very delightful to watch. The plot was crazy but I think it was supposed to be. The special effects were very good and you couldn't help but like the characters (mostly Cyndi Lauper)

Cheerful, underrated comedy about psychics served as a showcase for pop singer Cyndi Lauper (in her acting debut). She's a comic natural playing Sylvia Pickel, an unlucky-in-love single gal whose "psychic guide" leads her into the arms of fellow clairvoyant Jeff Goldblum (in possibly his smoothest comic performance to date). Both have been duped by con-man Peter Falk into finding a lost city of gold in Ecuador, and for the most part "Vibes" is a funny, knockabout journey with witty vignettes scattered about. The last-act drags its feet, but the script is full of great exchanges and a wonderful scene on the dance floor between the two stars. Lots of amusing one-liners, such as my favorite from Goldblum after Elizabeth Peña disrobes: "Parts of me are already applauding." *** out of ****