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It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Peggy Sue Got Married is a brutal movie with a very poorly developed plot and a cast that are enthusiastic, but never bring us in. It has an immensely muffled plot that brings up a lot of great ideas, but never delivers on the potential of these ideas, passing by and jumping on to something else that it will also never establish fully, it had a complete lack of concentration. Farncis Ford Coppolla clearly has a passion and intrigue for comedy, but certainly not an eye for it. Not a single joke landed properly for me and I could not help but think that was as a result of the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now trying to bring us a goofy, funny movie, it just does not translate. Kathleen Turner is also very ineffective in the lead role, she had no charisma and very little embodiment of her character, I was never convinced by her, nor did I feel like she was enjoying herself. Give this one a miss. Tries to do so much and falls flat as a result. I could not possibly recommend Peggy Sue Got Married.A woman on the verge of divorce magically travels back in time to her high school years. Best Performance: Jim Carrey / Worst Performance: Kathleen Turner

Peggy Sue Got Married is such a weird film. On one hand, there are parts of the movie that are so magnificently directed that they've stayed with me all these years in spite of how weak the film is on the whole. For example, I wasn't born in the 1960s but those early scenes with Peggy Sue when she first travels back in time are pure magic. I not only can vicariously experience her feelings of awe and wonder at returning to the 1960s, I even become overcome with waves nostalgia about that time period even though I had no idea what life was like in 1960. Coppola really did a magnificent job there.Also, even if you didn't get a feel for the 1960s, those scenes captured perfectly an experience we've all had when we've become disenchanted with our lives today, a desire to revisit an earlier, more innocent time. I've actually had a dream very similar to Peggy Sue Got Married, except I dreamed that I had to returned to the 1980s. It was a very short dream, but I had the same warm and fuzzy feelings of nostalgia and a sense of happiness that I had "returned", so I could really relate to those scenes of Peggy Sue when she first returns to 1960.So as far as the first act of Peggy Sue Got Married, the film is wonderful. The rest of the film, on the other hand, not so much. Once you get past the initial scenes of Peggy readjusting to family and school life, things start to go south. The story begins to meander. It's basically one scene after another of Peggy Sue looking surprised that she's in the past, expressing happiness at seeing people who had long since passed or trying to explain future technology to a nerdy kid at school. Yes, there's a subplot involving her high school sweetheart. But that's about it. There's no tension to the story or no real statement being made. Like, there could've been tension about whether Peggy could return to the 1980s or not, but there's nothing. There could've been a statement about viewing the past through rose- tinted glasses. But, there's nothing profound being said. There are just little jokes about the past and the present, like a reference about boomboxes (portable radios being larger while everything gets smaller). Okay, funny and cute but so what?The second biggest problem with the movie was the casting. I did not like a lot of the actors in this. They either seemed miscast or were just terrible. Even though Barbara Harris was the right age to play Peggy Sue's mother, she didn't look old enough or have the right look of a 1960s parent like Don Murray did. She looked more like her sister than her mother, so all those scenes of her being motherly to Peggy Sue were just weird. Sofia Coppola was echhh...about as awkward as you could expect for a kid who was put in a movie for the obvious reasons. (Her gawky delivery of, "Teenagers are weird, and you're the weirdest," still lingers in my brain.)However, if I had to choose the worst actor of the bunch, it would be Nicolas Cage. He completely ruins the film. For no reason at all, he puts on this ridiculous voice that's just shy of Jerry Lewis in the Nutty Professor. It's just so obnoxious. But it also ruins the character and the backstory between him and Peggy Sue. He's supposed to be the cool kid who she falls in love with and winds up marrying and yet, ironically, comes out looking like the dorkiest, most immature and most annoying kid in school, even worse than the nerdy classmate. It was so bad that I spent the entire duration of the movie asking what she could've seen in him. Yes, the explanation was that Peggy Sue in 1960 was more naive and clueless but Nicolas Cage made him so dorky and unlikable that I still had a hard time believing that even as a naive teenager she could've fallen in love with him. Also, he was far too young to playing this character in middle age. Were it not for the first act of the movie, I would've rated Peggy Sue Got Married much higher but it gets a 6/10 from me for the story and Nicolas Cage's acting.

At a high school reunion, a woman gets an opportunity to travel back to her school days. The theme of time travel was tackled with far more success a couple of years earlier in "Back to the Future," a film that is not great but is fun. This one is not fun. With its uninspired story and clichéd characters, it quickly runs out of steam and drags on far too long. Turner, in the midst of a fabulous first decade to start her career, is terrific, but the acting is otherwise uneven. Cage is the worst offender. He not only looks and acts goofy, but sports an annoying voice that sounds like a cartoon character. The familiar cast includes veterans O'Sullivan and Ames (his last film) as Turner's grandparents.

Peggy Sue Bodell attends her 25 year high school reunion, only to collapse and be transported back to 1960, her senior year. The more she wants to change things, the more she discovers that she makes the same choices as she did before, with a few adjustments. Although she starts by wishing she was a free spirit, and the desire to run away with the local bad boy, she discovers he wants to be a polygamist writer whose wives would take care of chickens for their income. This is at odds with her personal values and she realizes that she is not what she thought she was. There is more self-discovery in this movie than there is learning about those around her, but she does pick up some lessons from them along the way.A side note: I noticed on one review that I read someone was using the scene with Peggy's mother having her jewelry appraised to indicate that she was becoming an independent woman in the early days of the women's movement. I interpreted it that Peggy's parents were dealing with the same problem that led to Peggy and Charlie's problems, which she says herself - "house payments"! Her father owns a hat shop, a business which is surely on the decline at this time, foreshadowing family financial catastrophe in the years ahead. Did anyone else think this, or was there something else going on in your opinion?