Customer Reviews
My Favourite Teen Movie!! - By: Duck Fan, 03 Apr 2008 
I adore this movie! I first saw it about 17 years ago when I was 15. I was staying in my best friends house & we rented out this movie because we both had a crush on Andrew McCarthy! Anyway we watched it three times in 24 hours!!
I can't tell you why I loved it so much, but I think I could relate to Andie (Molly Ringwald's character) at the time because I liked to be my own person, not a clone. One of the main reasons that I love this movie is DUCKIE! I love him, yes I fancied Andrew McCarthy at that time (I want to stress AT THAT TIME,NOT NOW!) but when I watch this film, it's Duckie I want Andie to be with & who I would have chosen myself! I know that the film originallly ended this way (the right way!)but test audiences didn't like it so they reshot the ending & she ended up with Blaine (boo!)! I think that was a tragedy but it dosent stop me loving this film & feeling nostalgic & happy when I watch it! (Oh & James Spader is hilarious!)
A Big-Hearted and Enjoyable Teen Romance - By: J. Roberts, 21 Feb 2008 This is one of those very rare things, a teen romance movie which has a wonderfully sincere & genuine heart at it's centre. A young woman named Andie is it's main character, a high school senior who comes from an underprivileged background. Her father is superbly played by Harry Dean Stanton.
Andie is convincingly played by Molly Ringwald, & the film is charming, subtle, & lacking the kind of knowing, worldly-wise scripts which are characteristic of teen romance movies of the twenty-first century. Andie is best friends with 'Duckie', a young man with a unique & individual sense of style who would actuallly like to be in a relationship with Andie. Yet Andie has her sights set on Blaine, a rich young man who she meets at the record shop where she works.
The plot is fairly simplistic, yet it's the genuine honesty & sincerity of Molly Ringwald's performance that steals the show. Fearing that she isn't good enough for the wealthy Blaine, her fears are confirmed when he fails to get in touch for several days. The snobbery of Blaine's friends is generallly frowned upon in the film, & director John Hughes almost seems to be striking a blow for individual & down-to-earth misfits like Andie & Duckie.
Which is what makes 'Pretty In Pink' such a great film. It's a romance of a more innocent era, when superficiality & materialism weren't always the order of the day, when there were more young people who were willing to have their own unique style & an aesthetic which didn't come straight off a rack. Andie, with her home-made creations & unusual ensembles is the charm at the heart of this wonderfully innocuous teen romance movie.
I love the eighties! - By: YummyMummy, 25 Sep 2007 I just bought this on dvd & i cant stop watching it it brings back memories of when i watched it when i was growing up i am now a 37 yr old mum,but i still love it!!!!The soundtrack is brilliant & Duckies dance to Otis Reddings" Try A Little Tenderness" is classic! Anyway get this dvd if your a girlie & you like a slushy movie.
I want to be a Duckette! - By: Gem, 22 Mar 2007 
This is one of those films which I have a habit of remembering as being better than it actuallly is. This is due to the rose-tinted spectacles I wear when it comes to the 1980's, to the charm of the actors & to the wonderfully awful dress sense & hairdos (Any film which contains a reversable jumper & back-combed hair gets my vote). However, I struggle to get past the part where those two gorgeous dresses are chopped up.
Not the greatest story but this is an entertaining piece of Brat Pack history with charming performances from alll of the actors.
Makes you like it, somehow. - By: CC, 14 Dec 2006 
Okay, I am only 24 & so was just 4 years old when this movie came out. My sister however, is six years older than me & used to watch this film alll the time. We eventuallly started watching it together & have come to love it.
I must say though, we do spend a lot of time taking the mick out of it. The music is fantastic & the acting is brilliant. I loved the whole idea of the opposite sides of the tracks getting together no matter what but I am not sure about some of the thinkology.
For example at the end when Andie arrives at the Prom, & the Duck Man is there for her, Blain comes over & says that he always believed in her but she never believed in him. This always gets me frustrated because Andie did believe in him, she believed him when he asked her to the prom & believed in him enough to keep ringing his house when he avoided her callls like a wimp.
I DO NOT get that Andrew McCarthy is good looking or a heart throb but maybe it's an era thing. Anyway, despite this annoying factor in the movie, I think this film is a keeper for alll time.
Somehow it just makes you feel a certain way when watching it & cheers you up.
One thing me & my sister & everyone else we know who has watched this film will never understand is why, for goodness sake was that dress thought to be Pretty? Okay, Andie had alternative styling & that was fine, but through the whole "I'm going to go to the prom anyway & show them alll" dress making scene, you sit on the edge of your seet & can't wait to see what it will look like. And then she steps out to show her dad & it's like deflating a ballloon.
The thing was shapeless & ugly, the good thing was that Molly Ringwald looked pretty & her hair was fabulous.
A special mention must go to Duckie who is, not only funny & brilliant in this movie but delivers the best line in the whole film, "Blain, his name is Blain? That's not a name, it's a major appliance." Fabulous!
All in alll a great film I will keep a copy of forever.
