No...sadly not, but it does have a ridiculously 80s theme song all over the opening titles, by some ridiculously 80s pop group. Not sure who, but wouldn't be surprised if it was Huey Lewis and the News or somebody like that.
Yeah. Good point about things being ruder than you remember. That's true of a lot of 80s comedies, I think. Ghostbusters is an excellent example - I had (probably still do somewhere) this literally 15-20-yr-old tape of it off the telly that I must have watched a hundred times growing up, but only when I rewatched it on DVD a couple of years ago did I realise how...salty it is. :D I think in Ghostbusters' case, that may be down to it being marketed over here as a kids' film when in reality it actually came from the same stable/group of collaborators associated with Saturday Night Live as definitely-not-for-kids films like Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Stripes and 1941, and it's a lot closer in tone etc to those other films than was maybe obvious at the time due to all the ghosty sfx etc. And the other factor, of course, which may be the case with Mannequin, is that if you were watching any of these films on Brit TV in the 80s or 90s, then you were almost certainly watching an edited version with the more offensive dialogue (and in Ghostbusters' case, many of the really funny lines) dubbed over with something more family-friendly.
You're right about the danger/potential reward of rewatching these things in later life. I think you're on fairly safe ground with things like Ghostbusters and Maid Marian. In the case of Police Academy XXVIII: The One With The Shark...I have no illusions, really. ;D
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Yeah. Good point about things being ruder than you remember. That's true of a lot of 80s comedies, I think. Ghostbusters is an excellent example - I had (probably still do somewhere) this literally 15-20-yr-old tape of it off the telly that I must have watched a hundred times growing up, but only when I rewatched it on DVD a couple of years ago did I realise how...salty it is. :D I think in Ghostbusters' case, that may be down to it being marketed over here as a kids' film when in reality it actually came from the same stable/group of collaborators associated with Saturday Night Live as definitely-not-for-kids films like Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Stripes and 1941, and it's a lot closer in tone etc to those other films than was maybe obvious at the time due to all the ghosty sfx etc. And the other factor, of course, which may be the case with Mannequin, is that if you were watching any of these films on Brit TV in the 80s or 90s, then you were almost certainly watching an edited version with the more offensive dialogue (and in Ghostbusters' case, many of the really funny lines) dubbed over with something more family-friendly.
You're right about the danger/potential reward of rewatching these things in later life. I think you're on fairly safe ground with things like Ghostbusters and Maid Marian. In the case of Police Academy XXVIII: The One With The Shark...I have no illusions, really. ;D
Is that the time? Gotta run now! :)