By Forris Day Jr.
We live in a generation where people are scammed everyday. Just look at Facebook and you will see people falling for ridiculous things all day long. For example you will see posts where you are told to click on a picture and reply with a certain word and the picture will do something cool or you are told re-post something within a certain, usually very short, amount of time and you will receive some money in the next hour. It seems silly but people just fall for this stuff all the time. Harmless as these tricks are they are a testament to how easily some people are fooled. I’m guilty. I’ve been scammed by people I thought were friends and I’ll bet many of you have been too. You feel foolish for being suckered, but I digress.
“Lionhead” is a romantic comedy. It’s the story of Frank (Trevor Lissauer). Frank, a nervous young man, wants to ask his girlfriend Darlene (Jill Crenshaw) to marry him but Jill’s overbearing dad (Michael Madsen) will have none of it. His first question to Frank is “Where is the ring?”. Frank sets off to get a ring. In the meantime he inherits a large sum of money and is able to buy one. Unfortunately he chooses to buy it from Ted (Brien Perry) and his sidekick girlfriend, two con artists who talk Frank out of lots of dough. Jill’s dad spots the ring as a fake and this makes matters even worse for Frank. Now he is out cash and has a worthless ring to show for his foolishness.
Frank tries to get his money back from Ted and it’s pretty funny how annoying he becomes to Ted as Frank calls him on the phone at all hours of the day and night. The problem is Ted has spent the money and cannot pay him back. Not that he would anyhow. “Lionhead” is an enjoyable romantic comedy with an interesting cast of characters. No one can be trusted and poor Frank just can’t catch a break. Hopefully he will be able to prove to Jill how much he loves her but he has a very rocky road to travel first.
I liked the movie. It isn’t the “laugh out loud” comedy it is promoted as on the cover of the DVD but it is filled with funny situations and clever characters. It is lighthearted even with some of the nasty characters Frank has to deal with because in the end we see that they to are just human. It’s a romantic comedy that plays like a detective drama as the police close in on the con-couple. Is con-couple even a word? Anyhow, I enjoyed it and I will give it a thumb up.
