It’s hardly a cerebral intellect-fest, but if you’re looking for slightly more specs, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll than your standard comedy (not to mention 80s shoulder pads and plot), Jumpin’ Jack Flash is definitely worth a watch. (I kind of want to use the word ‘sassy’ but somehow feel I’m being a bit racist.) And that’s what it comes down to (liking Whoopi, not having questionable views). So, if you’re a fan of her style, you can expect that famously huge grin that looks uncannily like Jim Carrey’s Mask, and plenty of Goldberg telling it like it is. The main differences between her characters in Ghost, Sister Act and Jumpin’ Jack Flash being the volume of her hair. Of course, Whoopi’s doing the Whoopi thing. Annie Potts and Jonathan Price werent well known ( Price only appears at the end of the movie), but they add to the story. Jim Belushi is great and so are the British actors. If youre not a fan of Whoopi Goldberg I think you will be after you see this movie.
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But it’s more bemusing than Bond (assuming the next Bond movie doesn’t involve Daniel Craig singing karaoke to The Rolling Stones in bunny slippers). Jumpin Jack Flash has many laughs, fun, and adventures in it. As one of the first movies to use online communications as part of the plot, Jumpin’ Jack Flash was actually a forerunner of sorts. So, after stumbling upon Terri via online chat that looks a lot like the prototype for Ceefax, she agrees to help him out of his sticky situation - despite having never actually met him.Īll I have to do is provide bank details for the Prince of Nigeria to transfer his millions?Īt its heart is a blind love story of sorts as Jack and Terri start to genuinely care about each other amid shootings, secret codes and spies. One, he’s British and a leading man in the 80s. There are two strange things about him being British. And in doing so, accidently draws her into his murky world.
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Jack (Jonathon Pryce) is a British spy in grave danger who accidently taps into the work computer of Whoopi Goldberg’s character Terri. Jumpin’ Jack Flash is part-thriller, part-silly. A decent film, but sadly with fewer scenes of sequinned dresses getting caught in paper shredders, wigs being torn off and blokes being hit over the head with a frying pan. But it would have been Enemy Of The State.
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But, had the technology been more advanced than a Nokia 3210 with a clip-on cover of East 17, the movie couldn’t have happened. In 1986, they were so primitive, they made a leaking biro and a scrap of paper look like a 6G phone (that’s a thing, right?). Jumpin’ Jack Flash is a light-hearted tale of espionage, secret agents and a bored office worker (Whoopi Goldberg) who’s good with computers.