jellopuke Look, it's not high art, but even as a sex comedy it fails. The characters are totally unlikeable or bland and the entire plot line of going to Mexico to hire hookers is gross. For an hour or so the movie plays as just a kind of bland look at jerks who want to pay for sex. There's no chemistry between Shelly Long and Tom Cruise and Jackie Earl Haley is really annoying. But then, something happens at the end and the movie manages to salvage everything with a decent little ending car chase sequence that manages to tie it all up in a nice way. It can't be a raunch classic because there wasn't enough nudity or hijinks, but as a historical curiosity I guess you could do worse.

Desertman84 Losin' It is teen sex comedy.The setting was in 1965.It which follows four school friends namely:Woody, Dave, Spider, Wendell.They are from Los Angeles who got to travel south border of Mexico in Tijuana.They were accompanied by Kathy,a woman who plans of having a quick divorce from her husband.The LA friends and Kathy got into a lot of misadventures causing trouble.Aside from that,the LA friends made a pact to lose their virginity before their trip is over.Woody lost his when he spent the night with Kathy.Losin' It was an average teen sex comedy.The story was predictable.The laughs aren't really that funny.The acting was mediocre even from future stars,Tom Cruise,who played Woody; and Shelley Long,who played Kathy.The direction was also lacking from future Oscar-winning director,Curtis Hanson.Obviously,it also was a low-budget production as evidence by the quality of the film. The only good thing about this movie is the performance of Jackie Earle Haley,who stole the show in this film.Overall,Losin' It would have been a forgettable film if only Cruise,Long and Hanson did not achieve future success in their careers.Also,it reminded us how talented actor Jackie Earle Haley should keep getting movie roles and continue making films.

jmzkeenan I saw this movie in an entirely appropriate place -- as part of an all-night quadruple feature at a cinema in Northern Ontario, which could have been more accurately described as "Four lousy films for the price of one"! (For the record, the other three films were "Ghoulies", "Missing in Action" and "Ninja III - The Domination").I would say that Losin' It is probably the best of these four films – not that that's really saying very much. (It was the concluding feature of a very long night of cinematic mediocrity) . It's not an awful film (particularly compared with some of the other components of this multiple feature), and it has the advantage of having been put together by a crew who knew what they were doing. Rather, it's an assembly line teen film of the period, which is given somewhat more polish than usual by the presence of Shelley Long and the up-and-coming Tom Cruise in the cast.Two years previously in 1981, Porky's established a profitable template for teen films that many producers are still exploiting today. I see Losin' It as a Porky's knock-off, from a similar time and aimed at a similar audience. Essentially, if you were part of that target audience, you would probably have enjoyed it. I was just passing out of the target demographic when I saw this, so perhaps I'm more blasé about it than I might have been if I had seen it a few years earlier. There's a whole genre of teen sex comedy (which tries to tease the audience while dancing around the fact that they can't really show very much) that loses a lot of its impact once you've actually "lost it" yourself.

csweetleaf2 I loved this movie cause it's so funny and it has the then unknown Tom Cruise and Shelley Long in this movie before they went onto fame later on the 80's, but the best performance goes to Jackie Earle Haley as Dave, who is a sex obsessed pal who is a Frank Sinatra wannabe, and I also liked John Stockwell's character Spyder who came from a broken home, Tom Cruise is the intellegent honor student. This movie is about 3 high school seniors who want to go to Tijuana in search of sex (without their parents knowing it) and things don't work out the way they want it as Dave's little brother Wendell 'Wimp' (John Navin) goes along for the ride and later they shoplift a grocery store and the owner's wife goes with them cause she claims that she's gonna divorce him and she finds out that they stoled some items at the grocery store but she didn't care, the situations that the boys got themselves in Tijuana are hilarious and they later meet crooked cops, insane marine sailors and junkyard ruffians, will they get out of Tijuana alive, will the three boys lose their virginity, in order to find out, watch this movie and it's way better than the movies of today, I think that Losin' It deserves more recognition than what it gets cause it's a funny movie and if you can find this movie at your local video store, rent it and have a good laugh, it's a great way to spend a weekend evening.