Review of Junior

Junior (1985)
7/10
I Want Some PP, Too
6 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Movie starts out on the outside grounds of a Wautoma psychiatric unit as two Manson girls are released and dressed like lot lizards.

Imagine showing up to your parole officer dressed like that.

After being attacked in broad daylight, by some soap opera pimp, the two birds hotfoot it across the border and over into Canada. Don't know how they managed to smuggle a shotgun through customs. Oh, they're bribing this official who becomes a pig stuck in mud. I see.

The two prison cons stumble across an abandoned mariner port and just help themselves to the property without any title deeds, or proof of purchase.

On their first night they encounter Junior, who's something crossed between Hartman, (It's the hat) and Henry Bowers, but much worse. (Junior only ever went up to year one in his education so it seems.)

The two prison escapees take that whole "I don't need a man to make it happen" approach as everyone they encounter is a leech, who they're resentful of.

A Playboy centerfold moment sees a busty vampire sunbathing on a sun-kissed evening. Did I say vampire? I meant this fleshy humanoid, wrapped in skin, lady.

The other Manson girl meets up with Wings Hauser, who lives on a riverboat and makes love to plant life. (That scene with the fishhook is kind of grisly.)

This Junior kid is like a rabid Pepe Le Pew. (Are you allowed to mention that sleazebag's name anymore or will cancel culture strike?)

Junior keeps score updates with this Chop-Top character. Who I think was the star of the show. Is it a man or a woman? Either way, at the end it becomes barbeque anyway.

This movie is wild. It's like The Dukes of Hazzard on the Neely Henry Lake.

Another Playboy centerfold intermission break sees The Marlboro Man join in this time where the commercial is either gonna promote malt whiskey, cigarettes or condoms.

It's hard how to take this movie as there are elements of horror, slapstick comedy and sensual R-rated blue moonery.

The boom mic appears at the 58:35-minute mark. Oh boy. You had one job all movie, boy, and you failed to hold that thing out of frame! And he gets a credit at the end!

A lot of degrading name-calling won't sit well with the female audience.

You know, for a hillbilly, this Junior kid has perfect teeth. Did you notice? No, you didn't, as you were too busy looking at all the cleavage.

The movie ends on a strange note with the two terrified female leads consoling Junior, who put them through hell all movie. Why would they give two craps for his well-being? Don't make sense.

They shouldn't have included that 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' reference at the end as the credit's role. Be your own movie, not wear somebody else's t-shirt.

Movie wasn't boring, but my copy looked like it was pirated right off a Betamax laser disc. Hard on the eyes, man.
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