Shag [VHS]
by Zelda Barron
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Actor: Phoebe Cates; Scott Coffey; Bridget Fonda; Annabeth Gish; Page HannahDirector: Zelda Barron
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 96 minutes
Release Date: 1998-01-13
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS Movie Reviews of Shag [VHS]
Movie Review: A Timeless Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first saw this movie I was 9 years old and oh how I loved it - the classic storyline, the great characters and the wonderful music. For many years I searched for the movie and could not find it but then managed to find it here! Well, with a baby of my own on the way I look forward to sharing this moving someday with my kids. Just a great fun movie - 5 stars!Movie Review: Got it for my wife...She loves it...I hate it!
Summary: 5 Stars
The rating is based on her rating...This movie is terrible if you are a middle-aged man. I could not get past the first 30 minutes. On the other hand, my wife loves it and watches it all the time. She said it makes her remember watching it as a little girl with her cousins, and they loved it!Movie Review: The songs on the DVD are unbearable!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I have watched my VHS copy of Shag (my all-time favorite movie) at least fifty times and always sing along to every song. When the DVD copy arrived in the mail last week, I immediately watched it and could not have been more dissapointed! Listening to new songs take the place of the old songs that fit perfectly in the movie was UNBEARABLE! I honestly could not finish watching this version because it drove me crazy to hear the replacement songs that don't even go with the time period or mood of the scenes.
MGM, please release another DVD version of Shag that has the originial songs on it! I would buy it in a heart beat, no matter the cost!
Movie Review: quick
Summary: 3 Stars
dvd arrived quickly but the dvd was shaking around in the case, but no scratches.Movie Review: This movie's the most fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite movies. It's so cute and funny. Any girl would love it!
Summary of Shag [VHS]
What do you get when you mix T-Birds, Bermuda shorts, bubble-flip dos and incredible dancing? You get Shag, The Movie a comic free-for-all (The New York Times) that Variety calls fun and breezy and you'll call a blast! Carson (Phoebe Cates, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is all set to marry respectable but boring Harley (Tyrone Power, Jr., Cocoon) until her best friends Melaina (Bridget Fonda, Single White Female), Pudge (Annabeth Gish, MysticPizza), and Luanne (Page Hannah, TV's Fame ) whisk her off for a last-fling beach party where all the girls have the time of their lives! A charming bad boy throws Carson's marriage plans intothe spin cycle. His nerdy sidekick whirls Pudge through some dazzling dance steps. Sultry Melaina learns some sexy moves from an Elvis-like teen idol. And even straight-laced Luanne whips off her horn-rimmed glasses and tosses her innocence to the wind!It's not too surprising that Shag flopped on its 1989 release but found a devoted cult following on cable TV and home video. This featherweight comedy looked like a waste of space on the big screen, but it plays very cozily on the tube, where it lends itself to popcorn breaks and pajama parties. (The lousy title must have had something to do with the movie's initial failure, a problem worsened by the film being marketed as Shag: The Movie, a truly dumb idea.) Shag is in the tradition of Spring Break pictures, a thoroughly formulaic stroll through the conventions of the minigenre: beachside romance, a wild party, one tender deflowering, and lots of rock & roll. The time is 1963, as three gal friends trick their soon-to-be-married pal (Phoebe Cates) into one final all-girl fling in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Cates is engaged to a local well-bred stick (Tyrone Power Jr.), but soon she's tempted by a beach boy (Robert Rusler) bound for Yale (mm-hmm). The so-so material is buoyed by lovely Annabeth Gish, as the supposedly pudgy one in the group, and Bridget Fonda, as a prematurely sophisticated sexpot. After a while it's easy enough to relax and enjoy the girls' breezy adventures, which are served up without the soap opera melodrama of the similarly tooled Where the Boys Are. Oh, and Austin Powers notwithstanding, the title refers to the dance, not something else. --Robert Horton
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