Light Of Day
As reviewed by Miguel Crazywackyfunoutrageous Kesey
Just around the corner is the liiight of day! Yay! This is a Michael J. Fox classic which Fitzy bought for £2.99 out of a wee cheapy shop called Chequebook Chaos or something like that...what was it? Cash-hand Colin or something... Cockburned Cliff. Cash Converters!!! That's it.
Anyway, it was a PG, so we thought : "Aww, this'll be shit", but it turned out to be quite the interesting little blighter. It's about Michael J. and his hairy Fox who is in a band called Barbusters with his rebel sister, Patti (played by the infamous DUGGADUGGA Joanie Jett, who, according to recent foundings, did something famous). And it's basically about Michael J. Fox's family (although, the sub-plots involve the band, big slabs of meat, dirty feet, and casing a street in heat).
Their mother is a strict Christian, and Patti doesn't like this, but Michael J. Fender just wants them all to get along, at least for the sake of Patti's son, Benji...which is a dog's name.
So, anyway, the Barbusters break up, and they all join other bands (except Michael J. who uses his 8 dollar haircut and 12 buck shoes to impress the ladies). Patti joins The Hunzz who are a metal outfit, the fatty bassist joins some sort of Jools Holland-esque band, and the drummer joins a crap one in which he makes strange faces and tattoos his social security number on his arm.
The best part of all is Trent Reznor's cameo appearance, which made this film brilliant... he appears in a band called The Problems (who used to be called Sins) and you see him with 80s short-sleeves, and big hair, dancing away behind a keyboard...haw haw. We laughed.
So, ultimately, the family get back together, and the Barbusters get back together too, play to everyone in Cleveland, and sing their classic : "Light Of Day"...and then the film finishes.
Oh, yeah, Michael J. Fox also has a bit of sellotape on his ear.