X
- 1985
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
- 1985
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
Summary A female aerobics instructor (Jamie Lee Curtis) meets a male reporter (John Travolta) doing a story for Rolling Stone Magazine on the body-building & health club industry in California, but it clearly isn't love at first sight.
Written By: Aaron Latham
- 1985
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
- 1985
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
Perfect
46
User Score
Available after 4 ratings
tbd
Where to Watch
Summary A female aerobics instructor (Jamie Lee Curtis) meets a male reporter (John Travolta) doing a story for Rolling Stone Magazine on the body-building & health club industry in California, but it clearly isn't love at first sight.
Written By: Aaron Latham
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
46
31% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
46% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
23% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
46
31% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
46% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
23% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Perfect betrays itself in the end, but until it does, it's an
unexpectedly thoughtful consideration of "lifestyle" journalism, which by
nature allots to the unknown a sudden but ephemeral celebrity, and which
too frequently takes advantage of naive subjects eager to lower their
defences. [7 June 1985]
A glossy, engrossing piece of work. Yet the story feels worked up, inorganic. [10 June 1985, p.88]
This demonstration of journalistic integrity sits uneasily beside the unscrupulous methods Travolta deploys in his health club story, and if that's the point, the movie certainly meanders towards it.
Perfect is a trashy movie about women jumping up and down in leotards, but it's also more (and less) than that, a look at the wages of the free press. Despite a number of fine performances, a few good hoots and more daunting bodies, it's far from perfect. It touts the First Amendment like a corny romance from the '40s -- stars and stripes in spandex. [7 June 1985, p.D1]
Too superficially knowing to be a camp classic, but it's an unintentionally hilarious mixture of muddled moralizing and all-too-contemporary self-promotion.
Director James Bridges and journalist Aaron Latham wrote the shoddy screenplay from Latham's cover story "Looking for Mr. Goodbody" and two other articles, none of which come together sufficiently to comprise a plot. You've got to wonder what they really had in mind with this marriage of ink and sweat. What next -- the "The 60-Minute Workout" with Morley Safer, or Arnold Schwarzenegger and "Meet the Bench Press"? [7 June 1985, p.29]
I guess Perfect is a movie about aerobics, journalism, ethics and love and a couple of hunks. It is even more stupid than it sounds. It is the stupidest thing I have seen this year, in or out of the movies. [7 June 1985, p.C9]
User Reviews
There are no user reviews yet. Be the first to add a review.
Production Company
Columbia Pictures,
Delphi III Productions,
Pluperfect
Release Date Jun 7, 1985
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating Approved
Tagline John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis work up a sweat together!
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 3 Nominations
Jupiter Award
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Nomination