Bar Hopping

What do you do when late one night while channel hopping you see your life (okay past life as in the 80's) on the TV before you? This movie was based on the good old days of the Improv. I can say it made better memories than a movie but I knew every one on screen. Steve that was a trip down memory lane that we all could have missed! Sorry still luv ya D

"Wow," I thought. "What the hell is this? Scott Baio in a movie made in 2000? With Tom Arnold?" So I turned it on. And there was John Henson. All in the middle of one of these 'hip' movies about obsessively selfish people that live in L.A. Hey, there's the girl from MAD TV, whose best friend (and apparently sometimes more) in the movie is one of the ugliest creatures I have ever seen, who's supposed to be John Henson's girlfriend(?) who he has asked for more space from, and both are HEARTBROKEN over it. Then we get wildly random commentary from Tom Arnold behind an unknown bar that none of the characters are "hopping." Then you get Baio, who is an extremely smooth guy named Damian who has another crazy, obsessed girlfriend after him. One of his lines in the bar is, "Pretend I'm a werewolf. Lock me out of your bed, your house, your heart, your life, because I am very, very dangerous and I might just tear you to pieces." Then he pauses and says, "How'm I doin'?" "Oh, you're good. You're real good," the girl says. OK, so that line is actually one of the better ones, but no , he's not good. Nor is any of the screenplay or acting in this movie. The closest thing is Kevin Nealon's appearance as a lonely off-duty cop who keeps thinking he sees the Pauli Girl (or Paley Girl here) on his bottle winking at him. This is one of those wired gen-X movies that tries to do so much that it doesn't succeed at any of it.

"Bar Hopping" seems to be trying to be about the stereotypical bar tender and lay "shrink" serving up pearls of wisdom followed by example vignettes played out by the cast. However, this turkey is a jumbled mess with a script full of simple-minded cliched nonsense: Hard to follow, herky-jerky flow, unsatisfying, and not worth the time. (D)

This film essentially begins with a young woman by the name of "Lara" (Linda Favila) crying to her friend "Mara" (Nicole Sullivan) about a recent breakup with her boyfriend "Roger" (John Henson). Although Mara is quite sympathetic to her friend's emotional state of mind, as it so happens, it's also during this time that she gets a phone call from another friend named "Kyra" (Romy Walthall) who is also experiencing a similar problem. Eventually, one thing leads to another, and both Lara and Mara decide to go to a local bar to hang out and possibly meet other men. Likewise, Kyra also decides to go bar hopping in the hope that she will meet her former boyfriend "Damien" (Scott Baio) as well. What none of them realize, however, is that this late-night excursion won't necessarily turn out the way any of them could envision. Now, although the synopsis of the film made it seem like it might be quite entertaining, it never came close to meeting that standard. Not by a long shot. The writing was terrible, the characters were all unlikeable, and most of the dialogue consisted of one random comment after another which never really amounted to much of anything. In short, this was an incredibly boring movie, and I have rated it accordingly.

Occasionally funny but generally boring. I did recognize Robert Hegyes from Welcome back Carter (aka Epstein) as the ex-celebrity criminal. There is a knee slapping, gut busting scene with the French lady having a bad reaction to American food. S. Baio, S. Kellerman, and Tom Arnold are billed but have only minor roles. You never get to know the characters and it's hard to care what happens to them. Not recommended.