Synopsis
A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.
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Cast
- John TravoltaAdam Lawrence
- Jamie Lee CurtisJessie Wilson
- Anne DeSalvoFrankie
- Marilu HennerSally
- Laraine NewmanLinda
- Mathew ReedRoger
- Jann WennerMark Roth
- Stefan GieraschCharlie
- Kenneth WelshJoe McKenzie
- Ronnie Claire EdwardsMelody
Recommandations
- 75
The Associated Press
Perfect is gorgeous to look at, with its disciplined bodies (there is even a visit to a male strip joint) and modern cityscapes. Travolta was never more personable; doubts concerning his star presence are dispelled here. Jamie Lee Curtis matches him charismatically, despite her ambivalent role. [21 May 1985] - 63
Chicago Tribune
Perfect tries too hard to be perfect on too many fronts, and like a person who fine-tunes his or her body too much, Perfect ultimately seems brittle and less attractive the closer one looks. [7 June 1985, p.A] - 60
Empire
A gaudy, flamboyant expose that asks a lot of its stars, and gets more than it deserves. - 60
Time Out
This demonstration of journalistic integrity sits uneasily beside the unscrupulous methods Travolta deploys in his health club story, and if that's the point, the movie certainly meanders towards it. - 50
The New York Times
Too superficially knowing to be a camp classic, but it's an unintentionally hilarious mixture of muddled moralizing and all-too-contemporary self-promotion. - 50
Los Angeles Times
If Perfect didn't have a germ of an idea tucked away in all its posturing silliness, it wouldn't be quite so infuriating. But it has: Superficially it's about sliding-scale morality in journalism today, a not uninteresting subject. [7 June 1985, p.C1] - 50
Washington Post
Perfect is a trashy movie about women jumping up and down in leotards, but it's also more (and less) than that, a look at the wages of the free press. Despite a number of fine performances, a few good hoots and more daunting bodies, it's far from perfect. It touts the First Amendment like a corny romance from the '40s -- stars and stripes in spandex. [7 June 1985, p.D1] - 40
Variety
Set in the world of journalism, pic is guilty of the sins it condemns - superficiality, manipulation and smugness.
