Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

A Disappointing Continuation

A different way of telling a story

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

I luvd this movie!..the only thing i hate is that i can't seem to find it anywhere on DVD to put in my collection!..This movie i give a ten on a scale of 1 to 10!..its a movie you want to watch on repeat!..JOhn Travolta and Lilly Tomlin are simply awesome in this...who would have thought of those two making a perfect match..but they do...from the music when it first comes on to the story line and throughout..total romance without a doubt...My favorite line that John Travolta says is What a world!..boy that's the truth..and they are just so innocent in this..and is what it should be..and more...Please i want to encourage everyone that has any romantic sense about them to watch this............I've heard the word corny when some have spoken of this movie..i don't see it that way at all.............

This film is stupefyingly bad. Other then the fact that they happen to look like brother and sister, there is absolutely no chemistry between Tomlin and Travolta. Tomlin's attempt to portray a well-to-do Southern California matron who is totally bored with her life until she encounters Travolta comes off totally unbelievable and her character is just uninteresting. Travolta's plays his character as an emotional vacuum who views their relationship with all the enthusiasm of an ex-con checking in with his parole officer. I found myself checking my watch every five minutes hoping that my misery would soon end. I was more entertained by my triple bypass surgery.After it was over I told my wife how I felt and she said"For heaven's sake why didn't you say something? I wanted to leave halfway through!" Jane Wagner is incredibly talented writer of observational and ironic comedy but she displayed no talent for directing a romantic drama. The film is not just bad it is a colossal bore. It's not even interestingly bad.It's 102 minutes of my life I will never get back and I cannot un-see it.I have heard that it has become a cult favorite. Well the cultists can have it. I'll watch The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe instead.

In 1978, John Travolta and Lily Tomlin were both riding high off major successes: Travolta with the back-to-back megahits Saturday Night Fever and Grease and Tomlin with an Oscar win for Nashville. Travolta soon expressed an interest in working with Tomlin and it was decided that they would make a movie together. After all, a collaboration between two respected and successful actors should've been a slam dunk, right?Sadly that was not the case."Moment By Moment" instead became a rare epic misfire for Tomlin and sadly the first of many for Travolta. It proved to be such an embarrassment to all involved that to this day it has not seen a DVD release and MST3K was forbidden from featuring it on their show. Everything about this movie is just plain wrong.Starting with the cast, the chemistry between Tomlin and Travolta is non-existent. It doesn't help that both actors have been followed by gay rumors their entire careers. Tomlin's lesbian lover even wrote and directed this thing. Adding to the void of chemistry is the fact that the leads look alike with matching haircuts to boot. It gives their relationship a creepy mother-son vibe due to the age difference and the way they act toward each other does little to dispel this. Tomlin makes several motherly gestures and at one point before they "make love," Travolta puts his head in her lap and says, "Don't leave me." I almost expected his next line to be "Tell me a story, Mommy." If the mother-son angle weren't disturbing enough, the script paints Strip (yes, that's Travolta's character's actual name) as an unrelenting stalker, repeatedly following Tomlin's character, Trish, around and showing up at her house announced despite receiving several dirty looks and being told to go away. Once Trish unconvincingly comes around, she treats like him dirt, not saying the "L" word and acting ashamed of him in public and he still comes back to her every time.When Trish and Strip are not in the throes of sterile passion, they also act strangely. In addition to stalking, Strip spends the first quarter of the film acting like a hyperactive 5-year-old on a sugar high, babbling uncontrollably about utter nonsense. It is later revealed that his drifter status can be attributed to… wait for it… his parents forgetting his birthday. Two years in a ROW, mind you. Trish gets her own surreal moments, offering Strip a joint while naked in a hot tub and weeping over the undetermined fate of her ex-husband's pool filter. Her annoyance toward him also vanishes overnight after they consummate their union and they both quickly transform into lovesick fools.The overall plot doesn't make much more sense either. Sure, May-December romances do exist but this one is just a little too far-fetched. Strip is a nomad with no prospects and shady friends and Trish, while wealthy, is no great beauty. Usually people like Strip who seek out these kinds of relationships are con-artists, a fact that Trish even lampshades.Also numerous subplots are introduced and are either resolved offscreen or dropped completely. The most glaring examples are the unseen character of Greg, who supplies Strip with drugs, gets arrested, bailed out of jail and murdered, all offscreen and the identification of one of Trish's affluent friends as his killer which nobody does anything about. As mentioned before, Trish wonders if Strip is only after her money but this is never really explored. Trish is tormented by an ex-husband and consoled by a best friend who show up for a few minutes and don't really do anything important. The real kicker is the ending, where Trish and Strip decide to reconcile because… the plot demands it, I guess.The funniest part of it all is with the dangling subplots, bad acting, surreal dialogue, glacial pacing, limited sets and pointless characters, this movie almost comes off like a big-budget re-imagining of "The Room." All they needed was to have Trish's mother show up and casually announce she has breast cancer and screenwriter Jane Wagner could've sued Tommy Wiseau for plagiarism. At least the directing and editing are slightly more competent.Fortunately, both actors would recover from this fiasco. Tomlin learned her lesson and made a return to comedic form in "9 to 5," and Travolta would come back too, though it took a few more years for him. However, if you're looking for a bad Travolta film to laugh at, I would suggest "Battlefield Earth" as this movie, while having a few unintentionally funny moments, is rather slow and boring. See it once mostly for the curiosity factor.

I finally saw this stinker after hearing so much about it and it does deserve the bad reviews it's received.I don't mind romantic movies,as long as the two leads have chemistry,but Travolta and Tomlin have none.I know how Tomlin got cast and that was because her partner wrote and directed it,but still,Tomlin is no romantic lead.A great comedienne,but not a romantic actress by a long shot..A couple of scenes made me laugh and that was when Strip said he felt "cheap" when Trish just wanted to have sex with no commitment.How many guys would say they felt "cheap"? And the other one was when Strip got all upset when he told Trish he loved her,but she didn't say it back to him.He ran off like a baby that didn't get what he wanted..I kept thinking that Travolta's sister Ellen looks a little bit like Lily and the sex scenes between John and Lily seemed a little weird...If you're going to make a romantic movie,make sure it has passion and make sure it has depth.This has neither one...In real life,Strip would never be attracted to Trish,so the movie is implausible for that alone..The reviews speak for themselves and the critics were right,but I guess this could be considered a camp classic and a guilty pleasure,so maybe that's all it deserves to be and nothing more..