Movie review – “Jumping Jack Flash” (1986) ***

I love spy comedies where the lead stumbles into a bunch of actors playing in a spy film. That’s what happens to Whoopi Goldberg in this movie – working on a computer at the bank she starts chatting via whatever the 1986 equivalent of the internet was. Whoopi has a high old time and the film has a real feminist bent (director was Penny Marshall). It’s also got a great cast – Brit stage legends (John Wood, Jonathan Pryce), TV comics (Tracey Ullman, Michael McKean, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman), stage faves (Carol Kane), future stars (Jim Belushi), continentals (Jerome Krabbe). Mr Mini series Stephen Collins is there. Good silly fun. Loved Whoopi getting into the British embassy pretending to be the Supremes.