StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

OneEightNine Media This was on television and the title sounded cool. Plus for whatever reason I relate this film to a cultural landmark film, for whatever reason. Maybe because I heard this film is a touchstone blah, blah, blah fashion and extra. Whatever they are trying to this boring piece of garbage off as, it didn't work on me. I changed the channel after 20 minutes. Life is too short to waste on films you're going to forget about in 5 minutes. Madonna was supposed to be a big deal back in the days. She isn't even hot. This was her in her prime and she is maybe a seven, tops. She just dresses loose and wears sh!t load of makeup. Anyway, this movie blows. Avoid it.

Dalbert Pringle Viewed as a modern-day, urban, "Screwball" comedy - Desperately Seeking Susan (from 1985), unfortunately, fails to fully satisfy and deliver the goods, on all counts. By casting "eye-candy" Madonna (26 at the time) as the tarty, streetwise, title character, this film quickly becomes a total slave to contemporary fashions (carried to the extreme).Set in an artsy-fartsy, NYC location - "Desperately Seeking Susan", with its goofy, mistaken-identity plot-twist (that's reinforced by a convenient stroke of amnesia) gets mighty stale faster than you would ever think.I mean, once the whole setup is put into place, this completely contrived "Chick Flick" becomes just a series of painfully predictable situations that barely as amusing, for the most part.

SnoopyStyle Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) is a simple housewife who is fascinated with Susan (Madonna). Susan is a free-spirited grifter, and her boyfriend Jim (Robert Joy) puts messages in newspaper personal ads for her. Roberta decides to follow the latest romantic ad to their rendezvous. When Jim leaves for an out of town gig, Roberta starts following Susan around. She buys her jacket in a second hand store, and finds a locker key in it. Little does Roberta know but there's a killer (Will Patton) after Susan for a pair of valuable earrings. Jim sends his friend Dez (Aidan Quinn) to look after Susan. When Roberta hits her head, she gets amnesia. Dez doesn't really know what Susan looks like and assumes Roberta is Susan.It's a fun 80s movie and Madonna isn't asked to do too much acting. She is basically herself as the street smart NYer, and she's great at it. That's why this movie is kinda fun. Rosanna Arquette was a relative unknown back then. She's not really a housewife type but her character needs to have a ing resemblance to Madonna. It's also great to see all the NY locations from the 80s.It takes awhile to set up the rom-com with Arquette and Aidan Quinn. Roberta is suffering from amnesia and she can't really commit to the rom-com. Aidan Quinn is too nice of a guy. Together they form a rather bland couple. Madonna is still the more fun part of the movie. There could be more Madonna music. It has her big hit song 'Into the Groove'. Somebody should have told director Susan Seidelman that wall-to-wall Madonna music could have livened up the movie. As a comedy, it has its moments. There are no comedians in the main cast. The funniest line has to be "How do you use the birds?"

david-sarkies I generally do not like movies with Madonna, but this movie seems to portray her in her natural self. She is basically a slut who will jump in bed with anybody. Unfortunately she (Susan) gets involved with a man who is later thrown out of a window in Atlantic City. While this is happening, Ruberta (Rosanna Arquett) is following a series of personal adds from a guy named Jim to Susan. She basically wants some excitement in her life so she decides to find out who this person is. She goes to the meeting place and follows Susan to find her jacket in a shop. She buys the jacket and finds a locker key in it. When she goes to return it she is hassled by one of the crooks and knocks herself unconscious. When she wakes up, she has amnesia and with Susan's possessions on her, she thinks that she is actually her.I really did not think much of this movie and thus did not see much in it. I do not particularly like movies such as this which go into a portrayal of a seedy underclass in America. The underclass exists, but this movie portrays it in a good light, which is what I do not like. Susan is a part of this underclass: very self serving and doing her own thing without worrying about the effects that it will have on other people. She uses men for her own pleasures and does not care about them when she leaves them. She will walk out with no reason simply to pursue her own desires.This also looks at the upper class of society, but portrays it as a boring life. Ruberta wants excitement, and it is something that she does not get at home. As such she follows Jim and Susan's adds in the paper. Her husband, Gary, is a spa salesman, but not only is he naive, does not really care about his wife. As such she walks out. He thinks he knows her, but he does not because if he did he would see the frustration that is in her life. Like Susan, Gary is a very self centered person. He is having an affair, after four years of marriage, and really only cares about his own life. He does not listen to Ruberta's concerns and what is frustrating her. Thus she walks away because he simply refuses to see her. He tries to conform Ruberta into his idea of what a person is supposed to be like, but does not give her the freedom to express herself.It is interesting that when Susan comes to him, she walks right over him. She takes his car, stays in his house, and uses his wife's clothes. Thus not only do we see an upperclass business man, we also see a guy that is easily trodden over. He is walked all over, and thus he does the same with his wife. He is insecure because he cannot control the people around him, which is strange because he is a salesman. Even his add, when the girls pull him into the spa-bath, show us that he does not resist woman. Thus it seems that the progenitor of the affair is not him, but the woman. He probably did not resist though so we can't sympathise with him. Actually, the movie does not let us sympathise with him, and in the end he is left without a wife, who could have served him if he had done the same for her.