Movie review - "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (1985) ***

Impossible film to dislike, especially if you are a child of the 80s. One wonders why better use wasn't made of the title fun, but it has a cast to die for: Sarah Jessica Parker shows years before Sex in the City that she had what it took to be a strong lead, and Helen Hunt fits in well as does Shannen Doherty. Lee Montgomery is a perfectly acceptable hunk (even if like Parker all his dancing is done by doubles in long shot), I wonder what happened to him. Breezy, good natured and totally predictable - what is surprising it that the plot for this is almost identical to that used in the first act of Hairspray: girl wants to dance, falls for hunk, has crazy best friend, battles bitch. It's a bit too much to claim originality though - I think that both screenwriters were drinking from the same well, that's all.