i remember seeing this movie when i was little with a boy that i really liked at the time! So it has memorable value to me. Plus, its just a cute movie. I hear all the time that its corny and cheesy, but i dont care. It is recently beeing showed a lot on TV and everytime it comes on, I HAVE to watch it because i dont know when will be the next time i'll get to see it. PLEASE RELEASE ON DVD!!! PLEASE!!!!
March 23, 2007People like me who've seen the first one know that this one was nothing but a money making ploy by the movie producers & people at the company. (Artisan Ent.??) THe first one had humor, heart, and that loveable, bumbling Felix & his dog Rambo. The sequel--if you can call it that--is unoriginal, unimaginative, and downright boring. They reused the same theme from the first movie. How unoriginal is that!!! If there was a 0 on the rating system that would be my real rating for this movie. A BIG FAT 0!!
August 3, 2004 |  | A different live mannequin |  |
This sequel to 1987's MANNEQUIN was a flop. Nobody from the first film appears in this one. This film stars William Ragsdale who starred in 1985's FRIGHT NIGHT. Kristy Swanson is the mannequin. This film is somewhat memorable for me because Meshach Taylor of TV's Designing Women was part of the cast. The only recycling is Starship's recording NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US NOW which was played during the end credits like the first film. Swanson would later star in "Buffy The Vampire Slayer",that film later inspiring the TV series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.
May 27, 2004 | | Honestly? Yeah, It's Good. | |
I've been a fan of this movie ever since it came out. It is hopelessly tacky and cheesy -- but that HAS to be it's intended charm... otherwise I could never explain Kristy Swanson's acting in here which appears to be cardboard on purpose. Basic premise is similar to the inferior original... Bavarian peasant girl is frozen by a sorcerer for 1000 years after attempting to marry a prince. She winds up in a Pennsylvania department store while "on tour" (she is her country's only source of international interest). While at this store, she is left in the care of an employee (William Ragsdale) who falls in love with her. Her home country of Hauptmann-Koenig sends an evil count (Terry Kiser) to watch after her to make sure nothing happens to the country's treasure because he intends to marry her someday. But, lo and behold... it seems that 1000 years has just passed! And it is discovered that if her necklace is removed, she can come to life! BUT WHO WILL THE MANNEQUIN FALL IN LOVE WITH? Tacky? Of course. It's fantastic fun. Of course, Meshach Taylor shows up to reprise his role of the flamboyantly gay, over-the-top Hollywood Montrose. If he hadn't signed on to do this role, they could never have done this movie.
The movie is not technically brilliant. This could never be deemed a critic's film. It's not a film, it's a movie. Considering that the fictional country of Hauptmann-Koenig spoke perfect American English in the 10th century proves that. It's an hour and a half of lighthearted, outrageous stupid fun that has held up pretty well over the course of a decade plus. Kristy Swanson's portrayal of the statue that looks like a mannequin, Jessie, is really quite brilliant and underrated as she adjusts to life in the 1990s, in which she cannot understand the concept of fashion circa 1991, stoplights and fire extinguishers. It includes the theme from the original, Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", which oddly, won the original "Mannequin" an Oscar. Go figure. May 9, 2004
I ALWAYS THINK THAT KRISTY SWANSON IS A BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS AND IN THIS MOVIE HER LOVER BOY FRIEND WANTS TO TREAT HER LIKE-A-QUEEN AND ALSO TO FIGHT FOR HER HONER SO THAT IS MORE LIKE GOING AFTER
A MAN WHO HAS NO KNOWLEDGE TO BE A HIT-MAN TO MAKE THINGS LOOK LIKE TAKING KRISTY HOSTAGE IN HIS HOT AIR BALLOON AND I THINK HE IS THREATING THE COUPLE OF LOVE AND FACING A FEAR IN TURNING INTO STONE IN A MAGIC SPELL SO HE'S TAKING A BIG DOSE OF HIS MEDICINE BY KINNAPPING THE PRINCESS.
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