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It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

I live in the Chicago suburbs, am on break from college, and my parents just went away, leaving the house to me. :)But actually, I wish I had heard about what this was about a few years ago when I was Joel's age, just to make our lives that much more similar. The film on the other hand, I have major issues with. Cruise has great charisma, but the choices his character makes are increasingly dumb. Like how is he not furious at this prostitute for stealing from him the first time? He barely said anything to her, then let her stay over again. Why didn't he go to police in first place? I honestly can't respect this character if he has zero responsibility. Everything bad that happened to him in this movie was ultimately his own fault.Overall, it was a fun movie, but took way too much suspension of disbelief to get through and I just could not respect the character at all.

Teen sex comedies took a giant step forward at the same time Tom Cruise made his play for superstardom in this sly, winning film about a boy who shakes off the shackles of respectable suburban life and says "What the heck," or words to that effect.Joel Goodsen (Cruise) is a high-school senior given charge of his parents' stately Glencoe, Illinois mansion while they visit a sick aunt. Prodded by his obnoxious, Harvard-bound pal Miles (Curtis Armstrong), Joel takes Dad's car out for a spin, then gets really adventurous by inviting call girl Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) over for a night of costly sin. How costly? His mother's priceless decorative egg, for starters. To make it up, Joel is forced to latch on with the world's oldest profession to cut his losses."Risky Business" is an amusing charmer with a sleek underbelly that slides against the grain of the American dream. All Joel wants to do is make his parents proud by getting into Princeton. Throughout the film, Joel's lifestyle is mocked for its easy manner. Even if Miles is wrong in his advice (something Miles himself breezily admits later), the message of the movie seems to be that Joel needs to shake himself out of his comfortable rut before it becomes his tomb."I'd really appreciate it if you'd stop laying these little judgments on me while you're leaning on your daddy's $40,000 car," Lana says to him at one point, just before she sends the car into Lake Michigan.De Mornay makes the strongest impression in the film, from her unforgettable entrance standing nude in Joel's living room to her hooded, defensive manner whenever Joel presses her about his missing egg. At one point in the DVD commentary, Cruise talks about the music of Tangerine Dream as "cool, yet it has a soulful, kind of haunting quality." This seems an apt description of De Mornay's performance, too, a woman who sells her favors for $300 a night but speaks forthrightly when she says: "Nobody owns me."Director-writer Paul Brickman gives his film a hypnotic, dreamy tone, from the opening credits where Chicago at night becomes a glittery slo-mo vision to Joel's opening dream sequence, which lays out the central premise of the film, of sex as destroyer of professional ambitions. Joel walks into a bathroom where a beautiful girl is showering, but as he follows her he finds himself at a college boards exam, where he is already three hours late.Speaking of big entrances, Joe Pantoliano shines as Guido, Lana's pimp with a velvet manner and a gun. His scenes with Joel are funny for the rage Guido doesn't express, as he keeps telling Joel he's smart and "I like you," even while making ruin of the boy's life.Brickman had trouble with Warner Brothers getting the film he wanted released; in the end, the last minutes of the film were slightly altered to give Joel and Lana a happier sendoff. It's still a strong ending, as Cruise can be heard telling Brickman in the commentary; the overall message about capitalism's way of getting people to sell themselves short still stands. The bite is still there, only the fangs are a little less sharp.I like the theatrical ending better; "Risky Business" as is often risks being too serious for its own good. As it is, there's a lot of business in the middle section that I could do without, as Joel's problems accumulate and his angst is played out as very real. I'm more at ease with the darker material used for antic comedy, like the big hooker convention Joel winds up hosting, and his interview with the Princeton representative (Richard Masur, nicely underplaying his character's own little judgments about Joel).Oh, yeah, and there's that Bob Seger number Joel does in the living room, which takes up a minute of screen time but has come to dominate our memory of the film. It's a good little moment from a good little film, not the greatest ever made, but better than anyone had a right to expect. While dated in places, it still stands up today.

A lot of people look at Risky Business as just a funny 80's cheesy movie, but it's not! It's a great coming of age film with an extremely charismatic performance by a young Tom Cruise, which just happened to launch him into stardom.We see Tom Cruise as this insecure, everything by the books teenager and all the fantasies he has and how he reacts to certain things in his life. The depiction of Joel in this movie is the perfect representation of the male teenage mind.The only problems I have with the movie is the pacing sometimes isn't great in my opinion, sometimes the movie slows down a bit (although it didn't bore me, at all), just a small little detail and, what happened to the Porsche?!? Seriously.Risky Business has great performances, great music and touches many things that are so true in the mind of the male teenager. It's a great movie.

Risky Business is a good older teen film - yes it's funny. And no Joel (Cruise) should not do what he does in the movie but that is what creates the comedy and some of the drama in the film. Basically, if Joel did what he was suppose to do then we would not have a movie to watch.I think Tom Cruise was great in this movie - but he's gotten better over the years (IMO). And the film is worth watching for Tom Cruise's performance - and not just for his famous dancing scene in the film.Another reason to watch this movie is the story. Risky Business does have an interesting story to follow - and it's not all comedy.On a personal note: I'm surprised the IMDb movie is low on this classic Tom Cruise film. Should be a bit higher (but that's just my opinion).7.5/10