In the years following A Hard Day's Night, it seemed everyone with a hit single was entitled to make a movie. Projects like the Dave Clark Five vehicle Having A Wild Weekend and Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter (starring Herman's Hermits) seem as foolish now as basing a film around the irrepressible charm of the boys in Matchbox 20 or Marcy Playground, but that didn't stop them from being made. While the trend stopped short of producing Chad And Jeremy: The Motion Picture, it unfortunately didn't stop short of producing the recently reissued Good Times, starring Sonny & Cher and directed by future Exorcist director William Friedkin. Bono and bride play themselves as a couple of flat-voiced, groovily attired squabblers who occasionally stop fighting long enough to sing Phil Spector-derived songs about the depth of their love. While that's essentially the same shtick they employed as variety-show hosts in the early '70s, it's insufferable when stretched out over an hour and a half. The charming George Sanders plays a wealthy eccentric who hopes to ride the wave of Sonny & Cher-mania by producing a movie starring the pair. Sanders, unfortunately, has a hopelessly old-fashioned melodrama in mind, and our hip heroes cannot stomach the thought. This prompts future congressman and ski casualty Bono to spend much of the remainder of Good Times fantasizing, through a series of charmless fantasy sequences (or are those acid flashbacks?), about a more appropriate debut before ultimately deciding, after an angst-dripping motorcycle-riding montage sequence, not to make a movie at all. Anyone forced to see Good Times—a movie from which only the most hopelessly nostalgic should be able to suck any pleasure—will wish the real-life Bono had decided to do the same. It's the Spice World of the '60s.