Great Film overall

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This one is a little different, the theme is more supernatural, the characters are psychics. And it was released in the '80s when there were a lot of movies about psychics making their run through the circuits...but this one was combined it with classic adventure.Movies like this were awesome...huge from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen into the '90s when they started to peter out until, well, until they vanished leaving us with nothing but Super Hero films to fill the void......I have nothing against Super Hero films, but I love adventure films too.I can see where folks would not like it, especially the people that take themselves too seriously. It is stuck in a genera that is at once extremely pulp and kind of serialized. Even if it's not a sequel, you know the story.The Goonies, Nate and Hayes, Jake Speed, Firewalker, Romancing the Stone, Big Trouble in Little China, Young Sherlock Holmes...and of course the crown, the king, the Indiana Jones movies.They are all close enough to one another to really fit into the same mold. The characters change, the concepts stay the same and....we love it.Enter the Roguish hero and the damsel in distress in an exotic location to find X marking the MacGuffin, but first they have to work their way through obstacles both natural and man made in the form of a nasty antagonist and a couple of henchmen. Throw in a semi-bumbling sidekick and you have what I like to call "High Adventure." "Vibes" follows that outline and if you are the kind of individual that is still young enough at heart to love adventure films...you will inevitably like this movie.If you are the kind of man or woman that takes everything extremely seriously and refuses to play at all, not matter what it is. If you are the type that would use the word "compete" instead of "play" or "game" than you are going to hate this movie.

I can see by its rather low score here and its measly box office take that most people did not enjoy this film all that much. I, for whatever reasons, did. I thought it was a good comedy/action hybrid movie that was good almost all the way through. Sure it got a bit heavy near the end, but overall it was a fun movie. The story has a guy recruiting a lady with psychic powers to help him find some sort of lost city and there is gold to be found. Her powers though are not the most reliable as she gets messages from a person long gone. So she in turn recruits a gentleman with more consistent powers. They end up though being sought after by a more dubious person who is also in search for the ruins. I thought both Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper were good in their roles, though I do believe Cyndi's character was not to much of a stretch. I also enjoyed Peter Falk who played the man who wanted their assistance. I liked it when they went to the foreign country, and for the most part the comedy was good in this one to me. I do think it got a bit to strange during the end, but it was not a total hindrance to the rest of the film either. All in all I thought it was a rather good film.

1988's Vibes is definitely cheesy, but wholeheartedly light, flamboyant, and funnily romantic. Packed with verbal comedy, facial expression contortionist Jeff Goldblum, loopy quips, and ditzy Cyndi Lauper, this Ken Kwapis-directed adventure film is worth a look, especially for fans of (not so) perilous journeys and silly excitement.At a Department of Paranormal Studies research center, Dr. Steele gathers several of the most brilliant psychics to help him with a special project. The two brightest of the bunch are Sylvia Pickel (Cyndi Lauper's acting debut), the epitome of incredibly sexy but dumb-blond girls, and Nick Deezy (a young Jeff Goldblum), a museum employee who prefers not to sacrifice his humanity to be used as a walking Ouija board. His specialty is psychometry, the ability to touch objects and see where they've been – his other gift is skepticism. Sylvia, on the other hand, is accompanied by invisible friend Louise from the "other side" who forewarns her of dangerous events. She also deals with astral projection, the power to place conscience awareness outside of the physical body – and bad luck with manipulative men (Steve Buscemi makes a brief appearance) and utter losers: "my last boyfriend was a guy who drank soup by putting his head in it."Harry Buscafusco (Peter Falk) recruits the two talented psychics (for a cool $50,000 in counterfeit bills) on an expedition into the mountains of Ecuador, where they hope to find his missing son. But the mission leads the trio into danger and disaster when it's revealed that they're really in search of hidden Incan treasures – with supernatural powers! With 3-foot-tall multi-colored hair, bright makeup, squeaky voice and loud clothing, Cyndi Lauper is surprisingly entertaining as Sylvia, and brings a pleasantly contrasting character to Goldblum's straight-laced, sensible Nick. The two have an undeniable chemistry, filled with giddy flirtations and lots of cheesy one-liners. Add to that the dawdling and obnoxious villain Ingo (Googy Gress), Falk's rapid-fire jokes, a consistently kooky tone, music by James Horner, and Lauper's luscious legs, and Vibes isn't such a bad way to spend 99 minutes. Mike Massie

This film is a blast. Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper are a comedic smash together. I think people would go see this film if it were released today. Googie Gress is impressive in his role as the Nemesis of our heroes, with some truly witty lines of his own. Peter Faulk plays a con man who entices Goldblum and Lauper to travel with him to Equador and use their psychic gifts to find his missing son. The son doesn't really exist, and we discover that he is really hunting for a lost Incan city fabled to have a "room of gold". A sampler of their whit and humor includes...Ex-Boyfriend: "No hard feelings, huh?" Lauper: "No. No feelings at all".Faulk: "I wanted to be a somebody". Lauper: "You ARE a somebody". Faulk: "A somebody with money".Joseph: "Where wouldn't you like to be shot?" Goldblum: "South America".