Watch Bachelor Party (1984 Full Movie)

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Rick Gassko (Tom Hanks), a wisecracking school bus driver, is getting married in a week. His four best friends band together to throw him the best bachelor party ever, although it doesn't go entirely to plan.

The movie is mainly full of typical crude college party humour but there are also some clever jokes throughout. Rick has consistently funny one liners which are delivered well by 80s Tom Hanks. Also, where some movies of this genre only objectify women, men are pretty naked in Bachelor Party too, especially when the fiance's wedding shower ends up at the male strippers.

Debbie (the fiance, played by Tawny Kitaen) has rich and proper parents who spend their days playing backyard tennis and wishing that Debbie was marrying her ex boyfriend instead. This is a pretty fun subplot, especially when her dad sits Rick down and blatantly calls him an asshole, to which Rick gives some pretty asshole-y responses.

The ex boyfriend spends most of his time trying to sabotage Rick and Debbie's relationship while thinking about how much of a good person he is. At one point he crushes a tennis ball with his bare hand to illustrate how he will 'persuade' Rick to call off the wedding. It is pretty great.

The most annoying part of this movie for me is that Rick is happy to continue participating in his crazy bachelor party (which includes prostitutes and a potential donkey show) but when his future father in law shows up, he freaks out about Debbie finding out. Maybe don't do it if you know you're doing the wrong thing.

Another low point is in the strip club when the future mother in law is tricked into touching a male striper's penis in a prank planned by the bachelor party attendees. This scene feels quite predatory; the boys watch on and giggle while the old lady freaks out. How funny is sexual harassment, guys?

The action of the film culminates in a big fight between Rick and the ex boyfriend. The fighting scenes are very poorly choreographed; at one point Rick punches the ex boyfriend like a metre away from his face and still knocks him out with a cartoony sound effect.

Message, if there is one, seems that true love, even for a wild-and-crazy guy like Rick, can survive incredible temptation (though sour undercurrent is that all Rick's married friends regret leaving bachelorhood behind and try to talk him out of the wedding). Side theme that aristocratic, wealthy folks are uptight and unpleasant; low-class dudes like Rick are more tolerant, fun, and maybe even ethically superior (of course, guess who the target audience for Bachelor Party was?).

Bad role models abound in this party-guy wish-fulfillment, with the qualifier that Rick, for all his bawdiness, is faithful to live-in fiance Debbie, even in a hyper-sexual atmosphere, and protects her from an obsessed suitor. Rick's motley pals who are wedded are unhappy (one's even suicidal) about the idea of marriage. As in most comedies, rich people (Debbie's family) are unpleasant snobs. A black man and -- in a racial-reversal gag, an Asian Indian -- are stereotypical pimps. Hotel roomful of Japanese men depicted as lechers.

Full-frontal female nudity in one scene. Scantily clad "hookers," who do kinky S&M lesbian sex acts just out of camera. Male strippers shown, one with a huge penis (barely off screen) a woman accidentally fondles. Plans for a donkey and an exotic dancer to mate (a drug accident interferes). Male bare buttocks. A porn film eagerly screened (the joke: except for flashes, serious sex/nudity got mysteriously cut). Condoms shown, plentiful suggestive dialogue about oral sex and other techniques. Rick and Debbie live together but aren't married. Rick's friends, including husbands, take turns with prostitutes (off screen). One pairs up with a male transvestite without realizing it.

Shopping-mall stores, hotels, and high-consumerist Los Angeles landmarks comprise a lot of the setting and set a tone. Mickey Mouse and Nike logos, beer labels, car makes, automotive products, theater chains, references to appliance brands, James Bond, Star Wars, pop-rock bands in posters and dialogue.

Parents need to know that this movie is not intended for kids. The comedy's motto "Chicks and guns and drugs and booze and fire trucks -- all the things that make life worth living for!" cues sex/nudity, prostitution (made to looks like fun), and suggestions of lesbian, gay, and human-animal coupling. Drinking is jovial; drug jokes include a donkey (hired for a sex act) fatally overdosing. Swearing is at mild PG-13 level. Hotel property is gleefully trashed. Racial stereotypes include black pimps and horny Japanese men. Wealthy, upscale (AKA non-partying, polite) people are depicted negatively. Running jokes about suicide. Do-not-try-this-at-home stuff with a crossbow. Schoolkids are shown gambling (with the adult driver Rick's approval). Some mockery of nuns, for any conservative Catholics who might still be watching at the 70-minute mark. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.

Crazy, uninhibited Rick (Tom Hanks), a fun-loving school-bus driver, plans to marry his live-in girlfriend Debbie (Tawny Kitaen), a sexy shopgirl from a rich, disapproving family. Rick and his longstanding circle of buddies plan a wild bachelor party, and Debbie fears that self-proclaimed "great guy" Rick will cheat on her during the wild bash in a hotel suite with guest strippers and "hookers." Furthermore, Cole (Robert Prescott), a dumb-blond preppie type favored by Debbie's father, wants to marry her instead and bumblingly tries to break up the engagement. Cole succeeds to the extent of convincing Debbie and her bridesmaids to infiltrate the chic hotel where Rick and the gang are partying -- disguised as glammed-up whores themselves -- to spy on the men. Between the scheming intrigues, pranks, misunderstandings, and drug- and sex-fueled mishaps, Rick's bachelor party turns into a monumental incident complete with multiple arrests and an early-morning car chase.

This raunchy comedy is lucky it gets salvaged by its star. According to publicity, BACHELOR PARTY was inspired by the real-life bachelor party of director Neal Israel's brother. While these lowbrow-joke experts keep the narrative moving along at a fast clip, with a few truly inventive and funny bits indeed (like the climax at a bogus "3D" movie marathon) amidst the locker-room and potty humor, this Party would hardly be worth attending if it weren't for the very much pre-Oscar, pre-Ken Burns documentaries Hanks. He brings an effortless likeability to the hero that provides a sweet center to what would otherwise be a typical entry in the very many 1980s extreme-sex-and-revenge slob comedies -- many, though not all, aimed at the teen market -- that came out after Porky's set the pace. Let's just say that if you giggled at the word "entry" there, this picture's on your wavelength.

I was 14 years old when "Bachelor Party" was released...therefore I was too young to see it in a theatre as it was rated "R," and of course Mom and Dad weren't going to take me to see such a film. About a year after that it happened to come on HBO one night while my parents were out for the evening, so I excitedly sat down to watch this forbidden fruit. I laughed my ass off for the entire movie, of course, and the experience was heightened by the knowledge that if Mom and Dad came home before the movie was over and caught me watching it, they would've kicked my butt. Fortunately the film ended before they returned, so I got away with my little indiscretion. That's my main "Bachelor Party" memory and why the film remains so special to me all these years later.

Seeing it again after a quarter of a century (! has it been that long?) I was confronted with a blast of nostalgia. "Bachelor Party" is now a true time capsule of the '80s and as soon as it started I was transported back to my junior high days. Hard to believe that Tom Hanks -- yes, THE Tom Hanks -- got his start in goofball comedies like this, "Volunteers" and the sit-com "Bosom Buddies" before becoming an award winning serious actor. Hanks is likable in just about anything, and "Bachelor Party" is no exception. His character, a goofy slacker named Rick who drives a school bus for a living, has somehow lucked into marrying the gorgeous Tawny Kitaen (who would become famous a few years later for her turn in several Whitesnake videos, then infamous after that for her drug and alcohol fueled activities), to the horror of her rich parents. Rick's party-animal friends (including Adrian Zmed of "Grease 2" and "T.J. Hooker" fame) want to send Rick off into married life with the bachelor bash to end all bashes, and so the characters descend on an upscale hotel suite with all the class of a horde of Vikings on the attack. The party has all the sleazy trimmings you'd expect (drugs, hookers, booze, porn, strippers, etc.) plus a few hilarious asides such as a pimp who "looks like Gandhi" and a well endowed male stripper who goes by the stage name "Nick the Dick." Rick's fianc, afraid that he will be unfaithful to him during said party, decides to crash the proceedings with her friends, leading to predictable '80s raunch-comedy chaos. (A naked guy hung out of the hotel window! A Marilyn Monroe lookalike stripper who turns out to be a guy in drag! A cocaine-snorting donkey that dies of an OD!) I laughed just as hard as I did when I was a teenybopper! This movie still holds up as one of the best low brow comedies of the 80s, if not of all time. Rent this one and give your inner 14 year old the time of his life!

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