Look, not a good movie, not a strong script, certainly it struggles in comparison with Romancing the Stone. Opportunities missed wholesale - they never came up with interesting things for Danny de Vito to do - and bright ideas not developed (the villain being a Joan Wilder superfan and using her plot ideas against her, the jewel being a guy).
But it has its compensations. It's bright, colourful, moves along, there's action and some funny gags, the location work in Africa is stunning, and most of all Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner have chemistry off the charts.
I remember seeing it at the movies - the audience loved it laughed at everything. Dumb climax, and all that.
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