Sixteen Candles (1984)

I don't know what to hate about this movie. It's a good teen film but the age rating should be changed. There is one nudity scene where Jake's girlfriend is taking a shower completly naked. Another reason why this movie should be PG-13 is because there is alot of cursing!Overall, I think that my job here is done. 9/10

(Flash Review)…of the 80's high school genre. It was actually pretty funny and was able to contain the chaos of these types of stories pretty well. Molly's character's older sister is getting married the day after Molly's 16th birthday. Due to the chaos of the wedding, her special 16th is completely forgotten. To top it off, the boy she has a crush on doesn't even know she exists and a freshman geek is making some bold advances towards her. Ahhh…the problems of high school. Basically, there are lots of high school hijinks with some snappy and clever zingers, the typical dance scene, the house party where the house gets trashed, pure 80's fashion and a lot more. While entertaining, any cinematography was utterly ignored. The pinnacle of 80's.

Part sweet-hearted teenage romance and part raunchy National Lampoon comedy, which makes sense as this film represents a transition for first-time director John Hughes. Fresh from a post at the Lampoon magazine, where he penned the seminal classic Vacation, Hughes was about to revolutionize teen-geared filmmaking with his deep understanding of emotional roller coasters and accurate portrayal of the high school social structure. What results is a spotty picture that experiences triumphant highs and... well, not lows per se, but a shocking disconnect with any shred of political correctness. Long Duk Dong is the worst of these offenses, of course, as a blush-inducingly ugly Asian stereotype, while a major plot point in the second act involves handing off a passed-out prom queen for not-so-subtly hinted sexual escapades. At the time this was made, I'm sure, these seemed perfectly acceptable choices for a teen comedy, but it's impossible to imagine most of it surviving the filters today. But if we can forgive all that (or maybe just move on from it), Sixteen Candles remains an intrinsically charming (and often laugh-out-loud funny) film. Molly Ringwald is responsible for a great deal of that, at her blushing, grounded best, while Anthony Michael Hall deserves a nod for his work as her suave-as-he-thinks-he-is wannabe suitor. And I'd completely forgotten about several baby-faced cameos from John and Joan Cusack throughout the story. It spirals out of control at points, especially during the expansive, scattershot school dance, but regroups nicely in time for a touching, classically Hughsian finale. Matched, of course, with the perfect scene-setting new wave tune.

ms like Sixteen Candles personify what the eighties was all about. And if you were a child of the 80s, you will probably identify with this film a lot more than the now younger generation. The story is simple enough, but it works so well. Molly Ringwald is particularly like able in this, and she is almost irreplaceable in her part. There are heaps of familiar faces, including small parts from many of the present day 'movie stars' i.e John Cusack, Joan Cusack and Jami Gertz. It's kind of doggy though, and when you tell people you watched it their response is usually "Oh My God. That is so OLD." But that's what I like about it. If you want to watch a film that reflects the eighties, forget the nostalgia trips of The Wedding Singer and Romy and Michelle. Hire a true eighties product, such as Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, St Elmo's Fire.... The list goes on and on.