VIBES

US, 1988, 95 minutes, Colour.
Jeff Goldblum, Cyndi Lauper, Julian Sands, Peter Falk, Elizabeth Pena.
Directed by Ken Kwapis.

Vibes is a psychic comedy with Jeff Goldblum and singer Cyndi Lauper as psychics who agree to go to Ecuador to help Peter Falk find a lost city. It's all vaguely and mildly amusing. English Julian Sands has an ambiguous supporting role. However, the Ecuador and Andean scenery is breathtaking. The whole thing is pleasantly inconsequential.

1. Pleasant comedy? Psychics? In the Indiana Jones tradition?

2. New York locations? The opening in Ecuador, the locations of the Andes? The musical score? The final song? Cyndi Lauper's contribution?

3. The strength of the stars and their screen presence, comic styles?

4. The prologue, the tradition of Indiana Jones? South America, mystery and mystic powers? Greed?

5. The introduction to the group, Sylvia and her style and personality, talent? Talking with Louise? The contrast with Nick? Inigo and his tricking the man with the cards? His place in the group? Harrison Steele and his care of the patients? The various styles?

6. Harry, his arrival, taking photos, recruiting Sylvia and Nick, the mission to Ecuador, in Ecuador, his friend in the hospital, their stay at the hotel, ups and downs, comedy, the expedition, Harry urging them on, dying?

7. Sylvia and her talking to Louise, tier skills, in the group, going to Ecuador, the enjoyment of the comic sequences in the hotel, the encounter with the ambassador, Nick saving her life? Going on the trip, their antagonism, falling in love? Harrison Steele turning up and betraying them? Her psychic powers and the ending? Back to normal
?

8. Nick and his ability with touch, his job in dating antiquities, meeting Sylvia, their clashes, going to Ecuador, his resisting her? The woman in the hotel and her death? The expedition, antagonism to Sylvia, falling in love, going into the trance, confronting the villains?

9. Harrison Steele, the pleasant doctor, his using of Inigo, his henchmen, the confrontation in Ecuador, the expedition, their defeat and death?

10. The corny plot, characters and situations? Amusing dialogue and resolution? Pleasantly inconsequential?