Surprising TWIST on Brat Pack Discovered - Brats Review

Hulu Summary: Feature documentary Brats follows Andrew McCarthy reuniting with and interviewing fellow Brat Packers to answer: What did it mean to be part of the Brat Pack? Watching this movie, I drifted between being endeared towards Andrew McCarthy, the brat pack, the nostalgia for that time and also wondering what this documentary was actually about. I think it's a really good movie and I highly recommend it. But I do have a few questions that I try to answer in this video. Some of these questions in the events that occur in the movie are surprising, some of them are very unexpected, some quite bizarre and some of them are just unanswered.

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[Chris.from.]

Well done, Troy! 🎉 A thoughtful take on the doc, The Pack, and the process. I’m enjoying your engagement with your channel. 👍👍

[jasonkerest]

First of all- full disclosure- I am Team Blaine for those who may ask. That said... I watched the Documentary and came to some similar conclusions. There was a very poignant moment that came about 2/3 the way through the Documentary when Andrew McCarthy talked about the Pretty In Pink premier at Mann's Chinese Theater, and he said he got drunk with James Spader across the street and then did an impromptu interview with Entertainment tonight or something, and he seemed sad or down in that moment, and then Andrew McCarthy said "That was the whole 1980's for me". I get the sense that he was at the height of his fame and presumably the height of his career, and he didn't enjoy it when he was there. And I suppose it may sound mean to say, but, Andrew McCarthy was typecast in some of those rolls as the sensitive nice guy, which was a troupe in the 80's, BUT, by the '90's that wore thin. 90's character could be sensitive, but needed an edge to them. I can make the same case for Jon Cryer too that he didn't have that edginess that a Christian Slater had in Heathers or Pump up the Volume. The one roll I could have seen him play was in the movie Singles playing the James LeGros character of "Andy"(!!!), the quote "sensitive ponytail man". Sorry Andrew McCarthy if you read this and feel I'm down on you. I do like your work. An at least you didn't have the career of C. Thomas Howell who starred in Soul Man. Just saying.

[ibjmac]

I should be so lucky to suffer the Brat Pack’s kinda trauma 😂

[melissaedwards]

Great review and your point of view was pretty spot on!!! ❤

[JamminOnThe]

Great review. I liked the documentary. What a time to be a young Hollywood stud muffin. You didn’t have the paparazzi documenting all your debauchery. I mean these guys must have been so high on life. All these guys were young, handsome, gaining wealth rapidly, and starring in all these classic movies. I think Andrew McCarthy likely wasn’t going to be a gritty, serious actor. As he’s gotten older, he’s had a few guest roles on tv shows and he’s really good. He often plays tortured guys. He was on “The Resident”’and played a young doctor’s dad who was a former alcoholic who abandoned the family. He’s good at portraying a underlying well of pain.
I would’ve liked to have known who talked smack about McCarthy. If I had to guess, I think it might’ve been either Judd or Emilio. But just speculating. I get the feeling that these guys were a bit more traditionally masculine and didn’t know what to make of him and felt a bit threatened.

[dddpercent]

This documentary is connecting to a lot of people because Andrew got blindsided/derailed by something he wasn’t a part of. He wasn’t a part of the interview by Blum but he got hurt most by it in his eyes. Nelson was probably the one hurt most by it but at least he was there. It cost McCarthy a working relationship with Estevez if not a friendship. It did cost him the one movie Emilio mentioned. Most people can point to a moment in their life that is most regrettable and it is even harder to make sense of it if you didn’t get to defend yourself adequately. It made me think of moments in my life

[avavangaard]

I agree with your review. AM is soooo hung up on this I feel it has overtaken his life. The others have also been far more successful in my opinion. I thought it was just kind of sad to be honest.

[ThathorrorguyFU]

The article was terrible because every single member and the rest as well were great actors and still are. Andrew McCarthy was doing some of his best work in BRATS.

[eddierascalhaskell]

I liked it. I just thought the absense of Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall was disappointing.

[emanuellawton]

Andrew McCarthy comes across as bitter, angry and self indulgent. He clearly has not gotten over the fact that his career suffered as a result of being labeled as part of the Brat Pack.

[lucaswilliams]

Only Demi and Tom went on to become legends and tom wasn't even a big part of it. Rob lowe would have had toms career if it wasn't for the sex tape thing. So Demi was the enduring survivor of the whole thing

[dlamancha]

Awesome review! I just had a thought on the term "Brat Pack." Remember that scene in 16 Candles where Anthony Michael Hall was making martinis like he'd been making them all his life, with "New York, New York playing in the background? Well, I think it was GENIUS that the Writer Blum picked that up with the play on words Rat Pack/ Brat Pack.

I wonder if John Hughes had it in mind himself?

Anyway, I found the documentary a huge disappointment. The Brat Pack and actors were all over in the 80's. Girls wanted to be Molly Ringwald. There were even commercials emulating the actors!

I wanted to see all of them talking about what they are doing now. Instead, we got a borderline hostile, definitely confrontational McCarthy even with his co stars at times.

He didn't seem happy, then or now. That story Rob Lowe told about the Brat Packers going to Sammy David Jr.'s house is a prime example (one of the original Rat Packers)
When he said 'I love what you are doing, " it still wasn't enough for McCarthy.

It would have been enough to sustain me for 100 years!

McCarthy does not seem comfortable in his own skin. It's too bad that a man who has so much, can't recognize itl

[drlarrymitchell]

I see your Taps (1981) and raise you Class (1983). And about last night was just a Hollywood snooze that happened to star a few brat packers.

[reiders]

How did tom cruise avoid the label when his name is mentioned in the article also?

[KrisBryant]

I feel like Blum hated the personalities of the actors because when you think about Blum was right considering the fact that McCarthy comes off an uneducated ass, Lowe did a sex tape with an underage girl, Ringwald keeps ranting about the work that made her famous, and Estevez, Sheedy and Judd just give off overall creepy vibes. But at the same time Blum couldve kept his opinions to himself and just took some positives from those kids instead of putting them down.

[haroldlebo]

There might be a bit of rivalry considering blum only meant McCarthy once, on the other hand Nelson, Ringwald, McCarthy, john qrier who???

[drlarrymitchell]

More than East Coast/West Coast, I think there's an agism thing. Punching down. Rewind the clock by 40 years. The man who wrote the article is 28, writing about a gaggle of young 20s actors, all suddenly being inundated with more money, pussy, acclaim and clout than he knows he will touch in his lifetime. Twenty eight is old enough to start getting bitter about stuff, and I think that david bloom was.

[bartsullivan]

There were so many young stars in that decade Michael J Fox, Patrick Dempsey, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Robert Downey Jr, James Spader, Kevin Bacon, Christian Slater, Charlie Sheen. Outside of the label brat pack young adult films is what was selling at the time Hollywood has always been a bandwagon type of industry like the raunchy slutty teenage comedy of the early 1980's (god bless them for those type of movies by the way.) I still think Demi and Emilio's careers did not suffer from the article they were still getting cast and doing well into the early 90's. Maybe Andrew Macarthy should have told us all the rolls he auditioned for and didn't get or wonders why he didn't get cast. Seems like a lot of the stars of that decade rebounded nicely into TV shows in today's market Jon Cryer, James Spader, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Dempsey. So Demi was correct in the show Andrew probably just couldn't market himself or needed a better agent to get back on the horse or back in the game. Rob Lowe I am sure is cashing a lot of high numbered checks from the Hallmark channel even if its just the same movie plot over and over and over. G rated romance perhaps Andrew should have gone that route.