Nice Ferrari

Body Slam (1987)

It's just a shame that the Academy overlooked this movie for an Oscar. How could you go wrong with a movie directed by Hal Needham who directed the Burt Reynolds classics Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper, Stroker Ace, and the Cannonball Run movies?! Add in the guy who plays Face in The A-Team along with wrestling legend Rowdy Roddy Piper and many other popular WWF dudes from that era and what we've got here is, well, it's just a mildly entertaining mid-80's piece of mostly junk. (I can see how the Academy passed this one over.

Dirk Benedict plays a down-on-his-luck entertainment manager who accidently signs a couple of wrestlers. Together with a terrible hair band called Kicks, they hit the road in an old RV rocking and wrestling small-town America before getting to the big-time. Along the way, manager Smilac romances Candy played by Donna's mom in That 70's Show a.k.a. the Bond Girl from A View To A Kill.

Probably the highlight of the whole movie is a shiny red Ferrari seen throughout the opening credits. A beauty! It also kind of has appeal in that one gets to view 80's fashion and a whole slice of time that was fairly unique in its own, weird way. One thing to surely keep in mind about Body Slam -- this is without a doubt the best wrestling movie released in 1987.