Review of Angel

Angel (1983)
5/10
Punky Brewster's Sister
9 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
'Angel' used to be one of those common movie posters that was heavily promoted in the rental stores back in the 80s. Every store had one.

What a shame today's generation will never experience hiring VHS tapes in the store. Being a member of multiple video stores was part of growing up. You used to look forward to what was coming out and anticipate its release.

We did hire the movie around '89, but I didn't watch much of it when I slowly realized it wasn't a horror movie.

Angel walks around Hollywood sporting pigtails and knee-high bobby socks. Most of the movie centers around this one section of Hollywood.

Was that the Karate Kid's apartment back there?

A Freddy 2 bus cattle's Angel to her first period in English. The class only runs for no longer than 5 seconds.

Already recess beckons to everyone, and Angel bumps into Wayne, who's nervous as all hell but has mustered the courage to ask "Molly" out on a date. Molly? I thought she was Angel.

This dude looks like death warmed up. I don't like your chances, Fella. He hasn't a hope in hell. She turns his proposal down, and he loses face in the process. Any confidence he had built up has all melted away. Now it's back to the library for Wayne. She's out of your league, boy. Dude looks like Napoleon Dynamites brother.

A penny-farthing? Only Mike Wolfe rides one of those things.

Oh yes, the 80s, when LA looked like LA before it turned into a gangsters paradise for illegal invaders and activists.

Angel's first John is, well, a John Wayne Gacy lookalike. He's an undercover swine out looking for chicken little and two-timing his wife and daughter.

Let me guess, the lady in drag is Harry from 'Speed?'

Angel's a green school girl who's innocent by day but a PG-13 working girl by night. Not once in the movie do you see her bed a dude, claim any finances, or show any flesh, yet she claims she's slept with hundreds.

Our killer appears early, and I know that face. He's very young, but it's Jack from 'Kickboxer 2.' Sloan's manager. Go fix your fee, Jack.

Angel stays out late every night. Don't you have school in the morning, hon?

She mustn't be in demand, as she served nobody tonight.

Speaking of 'Speed,' like in Part 2 with the leech fetish, our killer displays kinky behavior and is attracted to raw eggs.

Something's not adding up! Angel on the VHS cover, dressed in blue and white, looks prettier than Angel in the actual movie. Is it the same person? The chick in the movie has a squishy face and is too Partridge family. She reminds me of this girl in 10th grade who we used to call Bubble Nose.

Charlie Chaplin makes a cameo as a broken clown after the first victim is stabbed in a parking lot by Jack from 'Kickboxer 2.' He's killing working girls for reasons not explained. You could apply the same logic to why Saucy Jack was wasting street walkers in Whitechapel.

Is serial killing a 9-to-5 or a hobby?

In his spare time, when he's not licking eggshells or defacing himself, Jack from 'Kickboxer 2' kills Angel's closest friend, and it hits home how close she came to being Saucy Jack's next victim. Angel's grilled by the sketch composite artist, and the best she can come up with is a drawing resembling Michael Myers.

Angel hangs around derelicts and spends less time in classrooms. She's only 15 and more educated in the streets than in books.

"Remind me never to get murdered," says Harry from 'Speed.'

Jack from 'Kickboxer 2' proves how strong and masculine he is by lifting improvised building blocks straight from Bedrock. He's kind of like the leech fella in 'Speed 2.' Surprisingly, he's apprehended and put in a line-up, but it's too far away and so damn dark that Angel can't point him out. I always think of 'Naked Gun' with these line-up tests, Remember that scene when somebody hits the light and the killer threatens the priest?

Jack from 'Kickboxer 2' goes all 'Terminator' in the police station and starts wasting authorities. He escapes, and no urgency is shown to alert a code 11. Oh, I think only San Diego used code 11 back in the day. I got to get with the times.

Angel has Audrey's voice from 'European Vacation.' Her cover is blown by the lead detective, who believes she's living a lie.

Janie's got a gun; I mean, Angel has one. She buys a KFC lunch special, and it comes with a small handgun. I think it's a .28.

Why did the killer make it personal with Angel? And how does she know he's coming after her? She never did anything to him.

Angel's cover is blown again at high school, and word gets around that she can be borrowed like a library book for a fee. So ugly dude Wayne, what's his names brother, rolls the dice a second time and offers her twenty-three bucks for a hot date, which is an insult and probably two dollars short. Is she paying taxes on all this income? She just admitted that there've been hundreds of Johns in her life.

Jack from 'Kickboxer 2' joins a Hare Krishna movement, and it's a shame he didn't erase Harry from 'Speed' earlier in the movie. I got to say though that Harry from 'Dumb and Dumber' put up a damn good fight against Jack from 'Kick Boxer 2' before succumbing to suffocation under bedsheets.

Jack from 'Kickboxer 2' looks like Billy Zane.

Angel upgrades to a serious sidearm and walks down Hollywood Blvd, thinking she's 'Ms .45.'

Jack from 'Kickboxer 2' thinks he's young Jason from 'Friday the 13th.'

Like any Hollywood depiction, Angel's .357 holds unlimited bullets and never requires reloading.

Billy Zane's gunned down at the end by Wild Bill Hickok.

Jack from 'Kickboxer 2' looks like Verne Troyer.

He mumbles some words at the end that I can't make out.

Jack from 'Kickboxer 2' looks like Corey Feldman in 'Friday the 13th 4.'

If I hear this "Something Sweet" song one more time, I'll just about rip my hair out. Weren't there any other songs to choose from for this movie? I bet "The Allies" only had one song in their short-lived singing career.
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