This movie is a fun one because it transforms a frumpy married couple with major communication and honesty issues into a well-tuned partnership of action and adventure. It humorously combines the romantic comedy genre with the action genre and I can tolerate the hokey action scenes since the hokey romantic scenes are fairy-tale material.
I haven't seen it in ages but it is fun to watch the wife undergo her "makeover". She starts out the movie with ill-fitting clothes and seems to live a very uneventful life. But by the time she is in a hotel hallway, shaking in her heels and ripping a few modesty seams out of her dress and putting on the bright red lipstick, we figure out that her life is taking a different direction. Her husband has never had the pleasure of seeing this more adventurous side of his wife. A fairy tale again, as I am thinking that bed-poster pole-dancing takes some serious practice and time to pull off successfully.
Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies.
My favorite scene is the very end when they are spy and dancing partners at a ball. It just looks like they are finally really having fun together and ready to enjoy a relationship based on true recognition and appreciation of each other's special qualities.
I'm sure I could have a lot more to say if I had the time to watch it again. Oh well.
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