Well, what do I have to say about this movie? Nothing much really. It was okay, but slow and not really all that original. The original things in this movie were the use of computers, but even then, there have been earlier movies, such as Wargames, where people were talking to each other over the computer.The movie is about a computer operator in New York who one day discovers a spy is trying to contact her. Thus she is sent on an adventure around New York to try and rescue him from behind the Iron Curtain. In the end this movie really turns out to be a spy movie with a few laughs in it which are not really all that funny. Whoopie Goldburg is portrayed as a comedian, but I really never found her all that funny. In fact she seems to do okay in the action-comedies, but even then she doesn't stand out like other actors do.This movie is more of a romantic in the sense that it tries to fuel the imagination of the swab spy (who doesn't turn out all the great in the end) that dates the humble young lady. It is not a true romantic film because that style of literature is actually quite dark and disturbing, especially if you have read any of Jane Austin's books. In fact Clueless, for all its pomp and gaiety, is actually quite a dark movie in places (but then it is based on the Jane Austin book Emma).This movie? Well, I would probably give it a miss as you are really not missing anything much anyway.

Just recently caught the movie again on TV. While it still contained some great laughs, it also contained a very strong portrait of an African American woman that I never saw back when the movie first came out. Think about it--She's a computer operator, one of the first to be shown on screen "chatting" and skilled in hardware and software. She's gutsy, doesn't need a man to help her. She's independent, strong, and beautiful but not in a typical way. She's not a rock emotionally. You feel for here as she waits at the restaurant for Jack. You can feel the caring she shows for her friends, co-workers She still gets the man--a white man!-- in the end, at least that's the implication. All of this in 1986! This new perspective for the movie has certainly lifted it above all the dated material (Annie Potts' hair, the computer terminals) What a statement! Go Terr-eee!

when the writers seemed to be making it up as they went along, so that there is little to spoil. This film must have been conceived as a vehicle to get Ms. Goldberg in front of the cameras doing her shtick, raunchy comedy. Vehicles usually have minimalist plots; their purpose is to show off the lead's best qualities. Good,if not great, vehicles are Lucy and Desi in The Long, Long Trailer and Peter Sellers as the immortal inspector in A Shot in the Dark, which as it turned out was the second of the series. JJF made me not care if I saw Ms. Goldberg again. In fact when I noticed her as the center box of Hollywood Squares, I mourned the death of Paul Lynde even more. She operates on the machine gun comic principle that if she hurls enough comments and insults into the mix, some will be funny. She is right; some are, but not worth sitting through the noise level of the soundtrack.

If only for the dress shredding scene, this has enough laughs to keep the plot spinning as WHOOPI GOLDBERG gets deeper and deeper into deep you know what trying to help some guy in Russia do his spy thing.It's all impossible, shows the technological gap existing between then and now with old computers, and all the while has Whoopi cutting loose as only she can. The scene at the Embassy ball and the telephone scene with her being dragged through the city streets, are just two of the highlights in this comedy directed by Penny Marshall.STEPHEN COLLINS is totally wasted as the office worker replacement who lends some mild mannered assistance, as are JAMES BELUSHI and JONATHAN PRYCE in small parts, but since the film depends heavily on Whoopi for all the laughs, it doesn't matter much. PETER MICHAEL GOETZ is excellent as her impatient boss.The plot is a flimsy spy plot with lots of sight gags as Whoopi flits around New York City keeping one step ahead of the bad guys. Passes the time and is generally good fun, but it's peppered with lots of profanity and vulgarisms, mostly from Whoopi, of course.