Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

newchristmasdreams 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.

generationofswine This one is a little different, the theme is more supernatural, the characters are psychics. And it was released in the '80s when there were a lot of movies about psychics making their run through the circuits...but this one was combined it with classic adventure.Movies like this were awesome...huge from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen into the '90s when they started to peter out until, well, until they vanished leaving us with nothing but Super Hero films to fill the void......I have nothing against Super Hero films, but I love adventure films too.I can see where folks would not like it, especially the people that take themselves too seriously. It is stuck in a genera that is at once extremely pulp and kind of serialized. Even if it's not a sequel, you know the story.The Goonies, Nate and Hayes, Jake Speed, Firewalker, Romancing the Stone, Big Trouble in Little China, Young Sherlock Holmes...and of course the crown, the king, the Indiana Jones movies.They are all close enough to one another to really fit into the same mold. The characters change, the concepts stay the same and....we love it.Enter the Roguish hero and the damsel in distress in an exotic location to find X marking the MacGuffin, but first they have to work their way through obstacles both natural and man made in the form of a nasty antagonist and a couple of henchmen. Throw in a semi-bumbling sidekick and you have what I like to call "High Adventure." "Vibes" follows that outline and if you are the kind of individual that is still young enough at heart to love adventure films...you will inevitably like this movie.If you are the kind of man or woman that takes everything extremely seriously and refuses to play at all, not matter what it is. If you are the type that would use the word "compete" instead of "play" or "game" than you are going to hate this movie.

neilsen123 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.

LesHalles Every time I see this film I find it hilarious. The film-makers have great resumes, much of them in TV. The cast includes comic masters Falk and Goldblum, and Lauper does a great job in one of her first roles; these are little gems of comic performances. Peter Falk is nearly as funny here as he is in _The In-Laws_. Sands and Gress are great as well.The plot moves along briskly and the action/adventure/travel side of the film works on its own as well as framing the humor. The romance is like something from screwball comedy.So why did the film get such a cold reception? I think this film has done so poorly because the humor depends on being familiar with new-age religion, psychics, channels, ESP, magic, etc. The script lampoons the kind of new-age/psychic phenomena popular in Hollywood. The target audience- those who are familiar with such things and at the same time don't take them too seriously- must only include the three writers.Although the film appears cynical and pessimistic about people, it cheers me way up. It has the same uplifting effect as another under-rated comedy masterpiece, _Into The Night_, also featuring Jeff Goldblum.Films like _The Matrix_ and _Star Wars_ are sometimes praised for communicating a philosophical and spiritual message. While those films certainly wear philosophical robes, I suspect they are actually driven by motives of greed, violence and melodrama. On the other hand, _Vibes_ and _Into the Night_ are both low-key, pessimistic, even cynical films that paradoxically seem to be driven by an inner engine of warmth and insight that can give viewers a real lift instead of hollow thrills.If you like _Vibes_ try another way-out-there under-rated comedy, _Simon_ (1980) with Alan Arkin.