Troop Beverly Hills came out in 1989, and it’s amazing. This movie is seriously underrated for its sheer genius. It’s about a zany rich lady from Beverly Hills, who upon being served divorce papers from her muffler dealing husband, decides to take the reigns of her daughter’s wilderness girls troop rather than becoming a paralegal. Despite her obviously crippling dependence to alcohol and shopping, she is approved for the job. She can hardly take care of herself let alone teenage girls. The girls are your “typical” Beverly Hills stereotypes in the late 80′s. They are the offspring to people even more zany then drunk Shelly Long. Movie producers, foreign dictators, best selling romance novelists, all filthy rich and too busy for their children. One can only begin to imagine what kind of kinky adventures the girls get into when not being neglected by their troop leader. In one scene the girls are playing poker in their pajamas with a hot young bellhop, and Shelly is passed out in the bedroom. The whole movie is a lot better if you picture them all with a coke problems. It’s not hard, they’re all filthy rich and it’s the 80′s, of course they are all on coke. Anyway, Shelly apparently fools everyone into thinking she’s at least become a functional alcoholic when the uber-bonkers antagonist self destructs because of repressed transgender issues. Her husband decides not to leave her, and everything goes back to to the way it was. She keeps shopping and drinking, and the girls are getting felt up by a bellhop behind some hotel downtown.
Should you see it? ABSOLUTELY. This movie takes itself 100% serious, and only makes sense if you imagine it’s really from the perspective of a selfish, outrageously dressed addict who manipulates those around her into maintaining her Lohan lifestyle. Also, the clothes are out of control.
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