perfect remind you of precisely what you want to forget about the mid 80 and include the movie and itself . that why so many be uncomfortable with it and myself include . yes and jamie lee look lovely ( though she would go on to look much good and much healthier in subsequent film ) and and it fun to grin along with travolta and the tent in his short in that entirely too long hot aerobics move sequence . but perfect be useful for one thing and one thing only and be an send up of east coast pretentiousness and presumption about the los angeles or airhead image . oh yes and and it probably the only film on earth to mention the abscam scandal of 1980. give it two star for that and alone . there a not so subtle gay undercurrent run through perfect be it the impromptu boy george fandom conference at the hotel and the pretty blonde fruit prance around sport connection and incredulous chippendale ( i. e. homosexual ) boyfriend of the aggressively heterosexual sally while or the purposely genderless introduction of jessie swim coach rumor . be honest represent you wait with bated breath until the movie provide you with the sigh of relief that the swim coach be indeed male . it could have be bad represent all that memory trauma could have be over an allegation of . lecherous pe teacher lesbianism . ( gasp and the horror . ) before you tell me i be impose today standard on yesterday film and consider that these be pertinent issue and particularly for gay and gay to be and even ( perhaps even especially ) in 1985. but i find myself actually agree with the central message of the film and a articulate by that hokey travolta analogy on pop culture and individual dream . diagnosis represent if perfect be any indicator and the california or la image be the fantastic and mass market product of the very people claim to critique it from such an objective distance . whatever it funny ha ha flaw and anyone over age 35 be acutely aware that be really only laugh at ourselves and our active denial of blatant and obvious 1980s in your fact homosexuality while our long spent can of sparkly rouge and style mousse and and loreal while synth bass and gate snare dance line and the wrong then and wrong now spandex and and pushbutton on screen or zero chemistry heterosexual promiscuity . perfect be the warped mirror back in our face . that be precisely why it be such a monumental failure at the bo . two star for that part and too .