Review of Vibes

Vibes (1988)
5/10
I'm surprised all women haven't tried to kill you....
11 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and The Fly play two psychics hired by Columbo to find his long lost son in a foreign country.

When they get there they discover he's really hired them to help find a hidden temple in the mountains where all the psychic energy in the world comes from.....

The sad thing about vibes is that it has such a wonderful concept to it. If it focused more on the characters psychic powers, rather than turning into a pseudo Indiana Jones wannabe halfway through the film, it could have been something.

The actors are not to blame, the writing is terrible, and Goldblum does his best bumbling fool act he mastered in the eighties before he became Mister Frost.

Lauper has screen presence, but my gosh, her voice is so grating, I was desperately seeking Susan toward the end.

It's a real shame, because the first twenty minutes is really entertaining and quite funny when we meet the psychics and their own brand of kooky powers.

But then the film tries too hard to be clever, and it loses any momentum that it had to begin with.

If your an eighties aficionado, it's firmly stuck in the eighties, with the music and clothing, but that's all there is to recommend.
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