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Young Doctors In Love

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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

There are some yucks in this burlesque of TV's General Hospital, but you've got to concentrate. What is interesting is the cast and what has become of them since, and what they were before, especially in TV land.

Michael McKean, who plays the lead, has had a fine career, but I remember him best as Lenny Kosnowski on TV's "Laverne and Shirley"; Michael Richards who plays a bumbling mafia hit man became Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld; Patrick Macnee was John Steed of "The Avengers" from the sixties; and although I'm sure you recognized Dabney Coleman, do you remember him from "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"?

Director Garry Marshall directed both "Laverne and Shirley" and "Mork and Mindy," which explains why "Young Doctors in Love" plays a little like a scattered sit-com. Nostalgic in a cameo was Jacklyn Zeman, who, last I heard, is still "Bobby" on General Hospital; and eye-popping in another cameo was Demi Moore, looking, I swear, a little like Monica Lewinski with muscles. (Moore was at the time also a regular on General Hospital.)

This was the year (1982) in which the beautiful Sean Young, who plays the female lead here, was also presented in the classic sci fi "Blade Runner." Who can ever forget those close-ups as Harrison Ford examined her eyes to see if she was a replicant?

The prize for best acting, however, goes to little known Pamela Reed as frigid mousy Nurse Norine Sprockett, who is sexually awakened by being romanced for her key to the drug cabinet, a surprising bit of reality amid the general mayhem.

Jammed full of soon-to-be-stars(or at least well-known performers) had tough job to better other hospital satires, and succeeds. Gags are just as good or better than most send-ups of this type, and story has beginning, middle and ending. Loved Dr. Prang's (Dabney Coleman's)role. Michael McKeon delightful obsessive-compulsive. Strictly for those who can enjoy this type of comedy.

This movie does for medical school what "Airplane!" did for airline disaster movies. It is a must-have for those with a love of the "B-side" comedy and have a few extra beers. It follows the paradigm of a soap opera with all the cliches. Without giving away too much, an assorted bunch of characters pursue their medical degree (and each other) and move through their residency. Good for some very good laughs: "Due to a mix up in urology, there will be no apple juice served today." Oh, yeah, Demi Moore and Sean young...

Shortly after this movie was available on VHS in video stores, my family rented it and found it to be extremely entertaining. After more than 20 years later, we thought it would be fun to see it again. You'd be surprised at how many of my friends have never heard of this movie.

I'm still laughing after all these years... 20 years after !

Great fun.

That's all folks !

Another movie that my father chalks up as: YUCK! And again, now he likes it, lol. Go figure! This movie is not short of stars as well as up and coming stars. It stars Sean Young (Dune, No Way Out, Stripes), Harry Dean Stanton (Down Periscope), Michael McKean (D.A.R.Y.L.), Dabney Coleman, Ted McGinley (Married...with Children, Love Boat, Revenge of the Nerds), Taylor Negron (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Last Boy Scout, Easy Money), and Michael Richards (Sienfeld). Don't forget Hector Elizondo also.

The 80's brought us Airplane which was a spoof on airplane movies. Young Doctors in Love is a spoof on anything about the hospital, its residents, and patients. The calamity in the hospital is hillarious and its got it all: nudity, comedy, cross-dressing, and suspense. Everything is going on in this L.A. Hospital: Doctors healing ducks, doctors flirting with nurses, patients flirting with nurses, interns taking drugs, a chemist drinking urine, the head doctor throwing a temper-tantrum when someone wears the same white cap as himself as well as taking out a gun and trying to shoot his accountant, and finally a hitman sent to kill a member of the mob who is a patient at the hospital.

If you like spoofs then this is a must have for your collection. It's one of those classics that doesn't get much attention. The first time you watch it, you'll laugh hysterically. Then a few times later it will just be hillarious and silly. So if you like comedy, hijinks, spoofs then this one will grow on you.

This movie is not rocket science but it is FUNNY. I, like other reviewers, found it to be in the vein of "Airplane!", only in this film much of the humor is more subtle. Ironic for a slapstick movie, but it is there and it is funny. (Perhaps some of the more sardonic reviewers missed those jewels as they flew by overhead). There is a joke going around the internet recently (having to do with tasting urine), and I was surprised to see that the joke is a direct rip-off from this 1982 movie. I was laughing out loud at the romantic scene where the cross-dressed mobster refers to his f---- guitar (another reviewer wrote about this). Funny.

...and someone finally put this little gem from the 80s on DVD. It actually has been out of print on tape for awhile, so it had been many moons since I saw this laffest.

An all-star cast, talented director, great one-liners, sick and twisted jokes, and a wonderful "Airplane" style parady of soap operas.

This is a sick movie at times, but always funny, suprisingly fresh for it's date (yes, it IS 20 years old, some jokes are dated) and well written (ala Mel Brooks style) and well directed. This is one funny movie!!!!!!

This movie always makes me laugh, and not just because i am an esteemed member of the medical profession ;) Come on, it's funny! Hector Elizondo in drag is the highlight of the movie for me. I also love Taylor Negron and the always hilarious Michael McKean. These hospital hijinks are my kind of funny. Hope one day to see it on dvd-i would snap it up!!!

Arrived on time, decent recording. Ordered as a gift for my dad and I honestly haven't watched it, but I haven't heard him complain about it so it must be alright.