The 1980s had these types of movies that had a certain style of wacky humor that I think only appealed to the generation which grew up in the 1980s, like I did. That's why some people totally dismiss this movie. Some people would definitely find the "love bug" scene annoying, yet I found it sort of funny. However, I don't like annoying overacting from stupid more modern movies, "Date movie", "Epic movie" come to mind. Those two dreadful movies also had horrible toilet humor which thankfully these wacky 1980s movies lack.
There were definitely some overactors here, particularly from the hero Jim's (Michael Knight's) fiance Patty (Phoebe Cates) and her father Ed (the late David Dukes). Ed had comical levels of rage numerous times throughout the film including after Jim's rowdy goofball friends pulled a terrorist prank on his home during Patty's engagement party (although that was the one thing that's understandable to get angry about). Patty also had comical anger once Jim started nursing an angel that crashed into his back yard, since she insisted on thinking he was cheating on her with another woman, and she continued screaming hysterically and refusing to even hear Jim out.
Jim tried to show Patty he wasn't cheating on her and that she's a real angel, but Jim's stupidity didn't allow her to see the angel's wings. For some reason, when Jim decided to bring the angel up in front of Patty's house to show her the truth, he had a long trenchcoat over her hiding her wings. Why would he do that right then and there other then to create another movie scene where Patty will keep thinking Jim's cheating on her, and she can continue to break out in her comical rage? Jim had the same stupidity again when he brought the angel to a church and at just the moment where the priest walks out in front of them, Jim has wrapped a blanket over her wings so the priest thinks nothing more than them being two kids playing a prank. That old priest was an over the top character also, including while Jim was in the confessional booth with him.
However, not everyone saw the angel as just some woman, and some of them did see that she's an angel. Some of them got strangely mesmerized by this ethereal stare she gave people, including Jim's friends and a guy in the church (not the priest) who while mesmerized accidentally caught his sleeve on fire. Ed, who initially came over to tear Jim a new so-and-so, also got mesmerized into a complete trance when looking into the angel's ethereal eyes, and changed in an instant from his comical rage to floating in a pleasant glowing happiness, to changing back to his rage when she was gone (and then being attacked by Jim's neighbor's vicious dog). Ed hadn't forgotten his couple of pleasant moments seeing her and spent the rest of the movie obsessively tracking her down so he could bring her into his life on a full time basis, and he wanted to make her an international model for his cosmetics company. As for Ed's rage, us viewers are not the only ones who noticed it, note a scene where his employees during a board meeting seemed to view him as an ogre and were afraid of his temper while speaking up their business ideas.
Jim's buddy's sometimes crossed the line of being a little too much to watch, with them seeming to have college rowdiness and immaturity that hadn't quite left them yet. And them pretending to be terrorists at a civilized party, the kind of thing that could give the elderly guests a heart attack, was not something that I look at as a prank I'd just laugh off. I would immediately disown friends who did anything like that. They then basically spent the rest of the movie trying to exploit the angel and getting the news crew to her.
But overall, much of this movie still had alot of that goofy 1980s charm which I enjoyed, and some of the overacting scenes were pretty funny such as Patty screaming in her car when the song "Angel baby" played and her radio knob broke off so she couldn't turn the song off.
I also liked the bonding between Jim and the angel in the forrest, the angel flying, her mingling with the animals (plus a weird looking bear looking up at her as she flew), and there was the very 1980s music, which yes I like because I grew up in the 1980s
There were definitely some overactors here, particularly from the hero Jim's (Michael Knight's) fiance Patty (Phoebe Cates) and her father Ed (the late David Dukes). Ed had comical levels of rage numerous times throughout the film including after Jim's rowdy goofball friends pulled a terrorist prank on his home during Patty's engagement party (although that was the one thing that's understandable to get angry about). Patty also had comical anger once Jim started nursing an angel that crashed into his back yard, since she insisted on thinking he was cheating on her with another woman, and she continued screaming hysterically and refusing to even hear Jim out.
Jim tried to show Patty he wasn't cheating on her and that she's a real angel, but Jim's stupidity didn't allow her to see the angel's wings. For some reason, when Jim decided to bring the angel up in front of Patty's house to show her the truth, he had a long trenchcoat over her hiding her wings. Why would he do that right then and there other then to create another movie scene where Patty will keep thinking Jim's cheating on her, and she can continue to break out in her comical rage? Jim had the same stupidity again when he brought the angel to a church and at just the moment where the priest walks out in front of them, Jim has wrapped a blanket over her wings so the priest thinks nothing more than them being two kids playing a prank. That old priest was an over the top character also, including while Jim was in the confessional booth with him.
However, not everyone saw the angel as just some woman, and some of them did see that she's an angel. Some of them got strangely mesmerized by this ethereal stare she gave people, including Jim's friends and a guy in the church (not the priest) who while mesmerized accidentally caught his sleeve on fire. Ed, who initially came over to tear Jim a new so-and-so, also got mesmerized into a complete trance when looking into the angel's ethereal eyes, and changed in an instant from his comical rage to floating in a pleasant glowing happiness, to changing back to his rage when she was gone (and then being attacked by Jim's neighbor's vicious dog). Ed hadn't forgotten his couple of pleasant moments seeing her and spent the rest of the movie obsessively tracking her down so he could bring her into his life on a full time basis, and he wanted to make her an international model for his cosmetics company. As for Ed's rage, us viewers are not the only ones who noticed it, note a scene where his employees during a board meeting seemed to view him as an ogre and were afraid of his temper while speaking up their business ideas.
Jim's buddy's sometimes crossed the line of being a little too much to watch, with them seeming to have college rowdiness and immaturity that hadn't quite left them yet. And them pretending to be terrorists at a civilized party, the kind of thing that could give the elderly guests a heart attack, was not something that I look at as a prank I'd just laugh off. I would immediately disown friends who did anything like that. They then basically spent the rest of the movie trying to exploit the angel and getting the news crew to her.
But overall, much of this movie still had alot of that goofy 1980s charm which I enjoyed, and some of the overacting scenes were pretty funny such as Patty screaming in her car when the song "Angel baby" played and her radio knob broke off so she couldn't turn the song off.
I also liked the bonding between Jim and the angel in the forrest, the angel flying, her mingling with the animals (plus a weird looking bear looking up at her as she flew), and there was the very 1980s music, which yes I like because I grew up in the 1980s