Good medium-budget commercial filmmaking - high concept, easy to follow, bright colours, cheap stars (Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattral), support players hamming it up (GW Bailey, James Spader, Mescach Taylor, Estelle Getty), a surprisingly complex performance by Carole Davis as the fake love interest (meant to be the bitch but very sympathetic, she's constantly sexually harrassed), a hit song.
Taylor's Hollywood, an over the top black gay character, is progressive for its time in its own way. It's silly, best for kids, but also sprinkled with adult humour, mostly about McCarthy having sex with a wax dummy.
The film was influenced by One Touch of Venus but a bigger inspiration was Splash.
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