Vibes (1988)

Undescribable Perfection

Good movie but grossly overrated

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

In this comedy, the underhanded Harry Buscafusco (Peter Falk) tricks two naive psychics, Sylvia Pickel (Cyndi Lauper) and Nick Deezy (Jeff Goldblum), into helping him locate a hidden treasure in Ecuador.This film is terrible. This was a film that was meant to launch Cyndi Laupner's film career. It didn't. The film was written by Deborah Blum Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel. However they seem not to know if it wanted to be a rip-off "Ghostbusters" or "Romancing the Stone". A week after the film opened to bad box office and bad reviews Cyndi said "Hey I didn't write it or direct it". SHe she did however contribute the song "A Hole in My Heart That Goes All the Way To China". That song was also a disaster. It was to be included or her upcoming record album but she had it remove to further remove herself from the film.Peter Falk also has a part in this but its not a big enough part to save this piece of crap! 30 years you will be hard pressed to see a DVD release or see anybody involved with the film willing to talk about it.

Vibes is one of my favorite movies of all time and I watch it at least 5 times (sometimes more) a year. I was a teenager when this movie came out in the theaters back in the late 80's and I don't remember ever seeing it advertised on TV or anything. I did not know it existed. That's probably because it was overshadowed by bigger more expensive blockbuster movies that got more advertisement. I discovered this movie in 1993 and fell in love with it. It is a lighthearted comedy that is not to be taken very seriously...as it was meant to be. Don't expect some large budget masterpiece with serious dialog, serious characters, plot and complicated hidden meanings. It is not and was not ever meant to be that. I've met many people that watch Vibes over and over every year and never grow tired of it...I thought I was alone on that, but no. It raises my mood and just generally makes my day so much better after watching it...I can't really explain it there, but others say the same thing that love this underrated movie. It raises your spirit...something that all the other big expensive highly ranked movies just never did. Don't exactly know why and don't care. Give it a watch and maybe you'll discover a new friend like I did. This is what this movie feels like to me...a reliable old friend that always lightens my spirit.

I know its a cheesy movie, but overall it was entertaining and fun. I'm also Ecuadorian and I come from the place where they shoot the film, Cojitambo (Cañar, Ecuador). This movie brings good memories for me, since I can see some known people from my village and my elementary school.daria84 says "they showed an awesome footage of Ambato (a City located in the highlands) in the end of the movie when Sylvia is out in the balcony", let me tell you that's not Ambato, but that's Cojitambo's Hill shot from Azogues. If you don't believe me, search online for "Cojitambo" and you will see.

Not on DVD though. Only VHS. I don't give away the ending, but some of the funny scenes.Psychics Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum are hilarious. Peter Falk (Columbo) enlists their aid to find his kid.Cyndi and Jeff are just hilarious.In the opening scene, Cyndi points a gun at Peter Falk, after he asks her for psychic advice, and says, "Oh, yeah, you're gonna ask me to do something really weird." I laughed throughout the whole thing. In one scene, I think it was Cyndi who says, "Someone had ... on this table." The laughs kinda come from nowhere.If you want a kinda strange love story mixed with Jeff's satire and Cyndi's "Girls Wanna Have Fun" energy, you'll love it.Cyndi's video, "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)," is also hilarious.-Rach