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Just perfect...

Good concept, poorly executed.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

John Hughes' Curly Sue is the film equivalent to a box of chocolates. When it's given to you it looks beautiful, sweet, harmless, and lovely, but as time goes on, it becomes sticky, disgusting, and before you know it, it's time to throw it away. Curly Sue starts out promising, progresses pretty quickly, but there are instances that are questionable and not very necessary.This went on to be Hughes' final film in the director position. Many opinions have been tossed around why. Some says its failure is the reason why he quit the position, some say he just got tired of working in the film industry, and others say after he got off the train of adolescence, he wanted to do something completely different. Whatever the case may be, I can still say that Curly Sue is not a horrible film, but a film that clearly lacks confidence in its current state. Everything about this spells drama, but it seems during production, Hughes made up his mind that he wanted this to be a comedy too. There's a lot of directionless hitting with cheap, slapstick sound effects that don't fit at all to this movie, and really throw a wrench under the screenplay's tires. There are shots of Jim Belushi being thrown into a bus, people being punched in the face, and so on. It gets to be much and it shows a grand lack of confidence when a drama needs to throw punches.The plot revolves around Bill Dancer (Belushi) and his pint-sized, precocious accomplice Curly Sue (Porter) who go around conning people to give them money so they can pay for their next meal. They are the kind of guys that will run up to the back of your car and fall down to make it look like you hit them, so they can get a little money from you. They manage to trick bitter divorce lawyer Grey Ellison (Lynch) by using the same practice, and kindly takes them into her home despite her husband's better wishes.Alisan Porter is perhaps the cutest thing in the film. Her character is so harmless and cheery that she is effortlessly likable throughout the course of the film. There's one scene where it is clearly nippy outside and she tells Bill "I'm freezing my balls off." Bill replies "you don't have balls to freeze off." She is impossible not to like, and she offers more than her curly hair and cute smile.The film doesn't go anywhere very quickly, and the effect it leaves is moot at best. The characters are cute, the plot is sufficient, but the overwhelming amount of slapstick and the sort of manipulation the film possesses is enough to turn someone off. John Hughes has been called "the philosopher of adolescence" and speaks to a generation who once thought that nobody could define them. He should've reminded himself that sentimental kid comedies were a dime a dozen.Starring: James Belushi, Kelly Lynch, and Alisan Porter. Directed by: John Hughes.

I'm going to give it a 10 just because the IMDb rating for this film is so surprisingly low. It deserves a higher rating. Whenever I'm feeling in a funk, I put this on and all my cares and worries just disappear! I've read the reviews and still don't understand why people don't like it...because a yuppie lawyer wouldn't fall in love with a bum, you say?! I am a career woman and still I was with a dumpster diver for 5 years. Love is blind, people. Plus, it's just a story and a good cute feel-good story. Curly Sue is adorable. How can you NOT fall in love with her?!! So, rent it, buy it and put it on when you're feeling blue. We could use more movies like this one for good old-fashion escape. Highly recommended.

Curly Sue will steal your heart... till you don't have one anymore. And then, heartless, you'll seethe in anger watching one of the worst examples of class envy ever made.For in Chicago, Illinois, there are only two kinds of people: the rich... Kelly Lynch as a bad lawyer turned good, and John Getz as a bad lawyer turned even worse; and the poor... our heroes Jim Belushi, a con-man vagabond with a ten year old daughter, Curly Sue, in toe: helping him scheme people out of money.It's when you see a horrible movie by a lightweight director like John Hughes that you realize his brilliance otherwise.Using the close-up punch in the face gag (think UNCLE BUCK socking the clown) more than a dozen times, and with music so pulsating with contrived sympathy, this Hughes mess (his last directed project) isn't only unfunny, but has no plot whatsoever.But perhaps there's a theme: bums have hearts of gold, and anyone with money can be redeemed: if only they realize the theme of this movie.Blech!

I remember having a pretty low regard for a venture like this when it was first released. James "Not Jim" Belushi, a hammy kid actress, and a cheesy title in a John Hughes formula. You couldn't have paid me to see it 15 years ago. But, I got caught up watching it while wasting away a Sunday afternoon, and it hits me on a couple of levels. The fairy tale (part Pretty Woman, part reverse Pretty Woman), the very vulnerable, Elizabeth_Perkins_in_Miracle_On_42nd_Street -like performance by Kelly Lynch, the escapism. Over all, it gently pulls some very nice strings. It's pretty hard not to fall into the story, develop a crush on Kelly Lynch, identify with James Belushi, dislike the stiff bad guy boyfriend, and laugh at the Curley Sue lines. Has all the ups and downs, with a happy ending, and the kind of message you want to hear. Go ahead, waste your time on this movie, it's worth it.