sbsakin There Goes My Baby is another movie dealing with the magical reputation of the 60s generation. The movie passes in just a short period, but tries to capture what was going on in the whole decade. The main story is based on class of youngsters leaving the High School and preparing themselves to go to the adult life, which involves Universities for some, Army for others and "just hanging around" for the rest. This period of time is represented as "The Last Days of Paradise", an alternative title to the movie.The plot goes showing the indecision, problems, obstacles and the general crisis lived by each of the many people portrayed. Themes like Vietnam War, racial conflicts, hippie movement, counterculture, parents and sons clash of generation and sexual revolution are portrayed without much depth, usually using one or two characters to explore these facts of the 60s generation, but never going deeper in the questions.Apart from these subjects, the movie uses a local burger restaurant that will be demolished to give place to a new shopping mall and a radio DJ that will change from AM to FM, broadcasting his program from the restaurant, as symbols of "the end of innocence".Everything in the movie is used to emphasize the idea of change in the lives of the youngsters, and their lives are have a semi-heroic portrait, including some drama, but after all naive. In the end, the characters start separating, going each one his way and the narrator (one of the characters) talk about the destiny of everyone in the future, adding magic, naiveté and nostalgia to "The Last Days of Paradise", when confronting the future (adulthood) to those days.Being so, the history isn't deep or complex, the actors are not superb, just competent and it is a movie to enjoy the two hours watching to it and nothing more, but at least grants enjoyment during its length. And the soundtrack is very good.

damiano54 I saw this back in '94 when it was finally released. Apparently because Orion pictures was in bankruptcy, I think, the movie had not been released a couple of years earlier.I have problem remembering details partly because I haven't seen it in a long time, but I do remember it as a very dull movie. I kept debating whether to walk out of it. The store was not at all interesting or engaging. Was a 3rd rate America Graffiti imitation. None of the performances make it worth watching either. One of the biggest disappointments since a local newspaper reviewer gave it a high rating.

rhiannonveritas Floyd Mutrux didn't work too hard when writing this movie; it is "Hollywood Knights" all over again minus the funny parts. I suppose he figured no one would notice since the movies came out fourteen years apart. Both movies even have the same radio DJ and he plays the same songs and even says the same line "From the desert to the sea...soulfully." The closing of Tubby's Drive-In (Knights) was a much better plot element than the end of (Pop's) Paradise in TGMB. I suppose this movie is supposed to focus on the deep, meaningful side of what was happening for those coming of age in 1965, but I don't really see the need for both movies. "There Goes My Baby" really comes off as a big, pointless cliché.

G-Man-25 A fair-to-middling period piece, "There Goes My Baby" was written and directed by Floyd Mutrux roughly 14 years after he wrote/directed the cult comedy classic "The Hollywood Knights." Basically, "There Goes My Baby" is the same story as "Hollywood Knights," minus the humor; it's more serious-minded but also a bit bland and unmemorable by comparison It IS interesting for film buffs to watch the two films back to back and see just how similar they are.Not bad, but if you're looking for pure entertainment, choose "Hollywood Knights."