1 Get out you note book
Randy Bodek (Patrick Dempsey) is a slacker and his father decides not to support him any more due to bad grades. Mean time his girl (Nancy Valen) also things he is insensitive. What his he to do? While delivering pizzas he has a chance encounter with a beautiful mysterious woman Alex (Barbra Carrea). She is the kind that kisses and tells. So how will this encounter change Randy's life and those around him?
This here movie is fun from the get go. You do not realize what it is leading to until it is too late. Then before you can catch your breath, it starts snowballing. Everyone does a good job of acting. You know that they are having fun making this movie. There is danger, economics, implied sex, and plenty of "Extra Anchovies"
See both Kirstie Alley and Carrie Fisher again in "Sibling Rivalry" (1990).
2 Great movie, terrible price
I love this movie, it's an 80's classic in my opinion. Patrick Dempsey is absolutely adorable as the teen who mistakenly falls into the line of being a male gigalo. Unfortunately, I cannot bring myself to pay this price for a DVD with absolutely no extras. What were they thinking?!?!? For now I'll just rent this movie and wait for the day that the price drops. Too bad....I was looking forward to buying it.
3 great 80's fun
love this movie. represents what was great about 80's comedies. great soundtrack, silly storyline, and loads of fun.
since when did everything get so serious? this movie doesn't pretend to solve any social problems, it simply makes you laugh.
THAT is what i liked about this flick and what i love about it and other movies of it's genre. don't see it if you take yourself to freakin seriously, but if you want a good time, it's well worth a look!
4 FINALLY REISSUED AND ON DVD AS WELL!!!!!!!
Im so happy, that Columbia/Tristar pictures finally!, reissued this film, and on DVD in WIDESCREEN! Its about TIME! This movie has never been reissued since it was released originally on home video back in 1989. Im so glad its coming out, and in WIDESCREEN! Itll be the first time ill see this film in its original theatrical aspect ratio! If u dont have this film, Go and get it, u wont be disappointed!
5 When will this be out on DVD?
I thoroughly enjoyed this light comedy. Patrick Dempsey is an entertaining actor, and I really enjoyed his movies in his younger years. Can't wait for this to come out on DVD!
6 Not as good as I remembered
Remembering how much I enjoyed watching this over and over again on cable when I was younger, I picked this up recently. While it was fun to watch, it's not nearly as good as I remembered. Much of the comedy falls flat, as does a good amount of the acting, script, etc. While I'd still like to see this released on DVD, just to complete my collection of 80's teen comedies, there's a long list of stuff I'd like to see first.
7 LOVERBOY ON DVD!!!
This movie is an halirious comedy of the 80s. Its about a guy(Patrick Dempsey, who has a girlfriend and he gets a job as a pizza delivery guy, the only thing is that the deliveries he makes arent just a pizza its a little fun with the opposite sex. The movie is halirious, he ends up even making a delivery to his mom(ALMOST). Colombia/Tristar pictures needs to bring this back on DVD!!! We should beg Colombia/Tristar pictures to bring this back, private resort, and just one of the guys, all on DVD. They need to be put on DVD, for us 80's fans.
8 Funny Fable with a Moral
This movie reminds me a bit of another Patrick Dempsey movie, "Can't Buy Me Love", because this movie too is also a fable. While "Can't Buy Me Love" had multiple morals, there are fewer morals in this movie because of the complexity of the principal moral.
The main moral of this movie is that you need to take care of your significant other because if you do not, they will. While some people will say that you need to remain faithful under all circumstances, what we see in this movie are a group of women who are neglected by their husbands that then seek paid companionship with Patrick Dempsey. Now I need to explain the movie a bit.
Patrick Dempsey has been goofing off in school bit time, and his father decides it is time to cut him off financially. Patrick needs a substantial amount of money for tuition in the fall. By chance Patrick runs into a woman that gives him money for having sex with him. The next thing Patrick knows, this woman has told all her friends about Patrick, and he becomes a gigolo.
Before you wrinkle your nose in disgust, Patrick does not have sex with all these women. He listens to some, dances with others, and generally becomes their friend.
Patrick's business does exceedingly well, and he quickly sees how he'll have tuition by fall. However, things begin unraveling about Patrick. Patrick has a beautiful girlfriend who finds out about Patrick's business, several husbands find out about Patrick, Patrick's father thinks he is gay, and a guy that Patrick works with develops a major crush on Patrick's mother. Everything comes to a head at the end of the movie in a rather satisfactory way.
While the description of the movie might make some cringe, in fact this is a funny movie. Near the end it becomes hilarious. Patrick gets in deeper and deeper, and eventually he finds that the only way to get out of trouble is to come clean with everybody. Ultimately Patrick realizes that what he did was wrong. Even though Patrick does not blame his behavior on the husbands, their behavior set up the need their wives had. Furthermore, in the conclusion of the movie each husband ended up in a different situation depending on how much their wives wanted to deal with their husband's issues.
This movie is highly entertaining; definitely a light comedy. For me "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Loverboy" are the two best movies Patrick Dempsey made in his early years as an actor. Four stars for being funny, entertaining, and have at least one good moral, as well as an all-star cast that included Kirstie Alley, Carrie Fisher, Robert Picardo, Robert Ginty, Kate Jackson, Vic Tayback and Barbara Carrera.
9 A Great Movie
This is a great movie. Patrick Dempsey plays the part perfectly with great physical comedy. The fact that he is not your typical leading man is part of the fun in this movie. The story is original, the supporting cast including Robert Ginty as the father and Bernie Coulson as the best friend is terrific, the movie simply is fun and entertaining. This is Dempsey's best role along with Run and Can't Buy Me Love. I have to watch it whenever its on!
10 Stupid
What I don't get is how people liked this movie, despite its paper-thin jokes and some cameos by famous actresses (Kirstie Alley, Carrie Fisher).
The thing is, it's only very mildly amusing (and I do put emphasis on very mildly). You'll get bored and want something fresher and funnier. If you want to see a good Patrick Dempsey movie, try "With Honors." It's a lot better than the idiotic mess that "Loverboy" was made from. The only reason for the second star was that it ended and it had the latter mentioned actresses in it.
Rated PG-13 for language and sexual innueudos.
11 Hilarious
This is one of my favorite movies. Patrick Demphsey is great as a pizza delivery Boy who satisfies ladies cravings for love when they ask for extra anchovies. This is a great hilarious movie I reccomend you rent or buy this Movie.
12 NOT PATRICK DEMPSEYS GREATEST FILM!
UNLIKE THE GUY BELOW I MUST SAY THIS FILM IS NOT PATRICK DEMPSEYS BEST FILM.THAT WOULD BE EITHER CANT BUY ME LOVE OR RUN. HOWEVER THIS IS NOT A BAD FILM IF YOU LIKE 90 MINUTES OF RUNNNING AROUND & GETTING IN & TRYING TO GET OUT OF SCRAPES.I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN DEMPSEY STICK WITH HIS BLOND HAIR & CLOCKWORK ORANGE TSHIRT THROUGHOUT THE FILM & NOT THE 1st 5 MINUTES THOUGH.
13 great great great
Loverboy is perhaps... actually is the finest comedy ever made; let alone the finest Patrick Dempsey flick and that includes Meatballs III. If you do not like this movie you may need to seriously consider removing your frontal lobes because you have no sense of humor. Patrick Dempsey is in excellent form exhibiting the tragedy of being an under sexed teenager balancing work and school and his very extra curricular activities: providing hot lovin' to middle aged has beens including Carrie Fisher and Kirstie Alley. Both women's careers peaked at this film (Carrie Fisher's acting sucked in star Wars-and Kirstie Alley's comedic talents never rose past the level of a stoic Klingon in Star Trek III ) If you are need of serious hilarity, you should try this movie. Be sure to ask for "Extra Anchovies"
