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Summary: MADE ME FEEL YOUNG AGAIN
Review: GREAT SCENERY. GREAT MUSIC. MADE ME WANT TO CATCH THE NEXT JET TO RIO AND SEE IF IT WAS FOR REAL. VERY FUNNY AND ENJOYABLE ACTING. MICHAEL CAINE IS SMOOTH AS ALWAYS ,AND HE MADE ME FEEL YOUNG AGAIN. ENJOY THE MUSIC AND FEEL THE BEAT OF BRAZIL.
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Summary: It's like La Cage Aux Folles
Review: I just saw this movie at a friend's house. Oh my God this is so funny albeit the moral issues. It's like The Birdcage- that old French school of hysterical comedies you can watch a million times. Caine's best friend was the best part of this movie. This guy really made me scream on the floor because he's like Robert Deniro's character in "Meet The Parents" on Benzedrine ("iF YOU DO ANYTHING TO CORRUPT MY PRECIOUS FIRST BORN DAUGHTER i WILL BRING YOU DOWN. I WILL BRING YOU DOWN TO CHINA TOWN!)
And remember the look on that maid's face when she walked in on Caine and his friend in a suggestive position?!Although an old guy shagging with a young girl can make one hurl- it works in this film. You know- in a Froggie way.
Good stuff!
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF 1980'S
Review: I love this movie! it is one of the funniest movies of my time Michael Caine is brilliant. His comedy in this movie is off the wall and his some what "sqaure stlye" makes his role work. He co-stars in the film with Joseph Bologna (My favorite year) Demi Moore (Striptease , St. Elmo's Fire) and the beautiful Michelle Johnson. The film was directed by oscar winning director Stanley Donen. this is a great off the wall romantic comedy about Middle-aged executive who just cant's resist the sex appel of his best friends teen-age daughter so he finally dicides to BLAME IT ON RIO. Bottom Line: Great movie with a good cast great music and fine director its fun and it never stops moveing you'll laugh from start to finish.
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Summary: Simply 1 of the best
Review: I loved Blame it on Rio. It is one of the best comedy movies in the 80's. I wish they had the unedited version of it on dvd. I do not like movies that are edited or cut out certain scenes.
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Summary: Odd Couple with A Twist
Review: I never grow tired of seeing this video. The locations, breathtakingly shot in and around Rio, are enough to make anyone with or without an imagination want to book the next flight. Caine and Bologna play marvelously off each other reminicent of Walter Mathow and Jack Lemon. Good writing and a terrific supporting cast including a teenage and throaty voiced Demi Moore as Canie's daughter make this a movie not to be missed. While the subject matter may be taboo...remember...it is a comedy.
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Summary: Movies Are For Entertainment....This One Does Just That!
Review: I read other reviews that, either slated the movie as a waste of time and money, found fault with the DVD picture quality or felt that some of the music was irritating and would have preferred more authentic Brazilian music instead (ala Antonio Carlos Jobim for example) to presumably give the movie more of a 'travelogue' flavor rather than supporting the comedic thrust of this movie. Personally, in a comedy, I don't mind if some of the music is corny. With few exceptions I don't look for great music soundtracks in comedies. Rather than provide another synopsis I'll explain why I recommend this DVD. Michael Caine is perfectly cast and capitalizes on the opportunity to characterize this role with the wit and charm that give practically every film he's in a uniqueness only he can provide. His chemistry with Joseph Bologna (who can portray the archetypal cynic as well as anyone) gives the film enough comic thrust to overlook the somewhat pedestrian performances of some of the other principal actors. In my opinion, Michelle Johnson played her role well and Valerie Harper qualified her relevance to the story but Demi Moore did little to impress. In fairness, that probably had more to do with her role in the story than her characterization. The supporting cast was ideal for the flavor of this film. I think it would be a mistake to install this film in an '80's time capsule, especially with some of the second-rate drivel that's been produced recently. Overall, it's a great movie to look and LAUGH at........and I found nothing wrong with the DVD image.
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Summary: very funny and very sexy
Review: I saw this movie when it first came out back in 1984, and it has always stuck in my mind as a very fun movie. The movie opens with two middle-aged men, both of whom are going through difficult marriages. One (Joseph Bologna) is getting a divorce and the other (Michael Caine) finds his marriage on the rocks. They travel to Rio on a vacation with their teenage daughters, but without their wives, in order to forget about their marital troubles. Because the daughters replace the wives on this vacation, it creates a vaguely incestous tension. In one of the movie's early scenes, Bologna's daughter (Michelle Johnson) and Caine's daughter (Demi Moore) are bare breasted as they walk up to their fathers on the beach. Moore seems somewhat shy as her hair mostly covers her chest, but Johnson is clearly very confident and proud of her breasts. Her father asks her to cover her breasts and she refuses. Though the direct incestous tension between father and daughter doesn't go any further than this, the sexuality definitely builds between Johnson and dad's friend Caine to the point where they are soon having an affair. The affair creates a series of situations that are downright hilarious, and many scenes had me rolling on the floor laughing. For the guys in the audience, Michelle Johnson is definitely gorgeous and we get to--well--see a lot of her, and she seems very comfortable and happy with her nudity. Demi Moore plays a more minor role both in terms of nudity and in terms of her character. The movie is not intended to make any grand in-depth statement, and is probably not very accurate about Brazil, but if you want a light-hearted, sexy comedy it would be hard to do much better. On a personal note, this movie was something of a rite of passage for me because it was, I believe, the first movie showing adult nudity that I ever saw on the big screen. I still thought of myself as a bit of a kid at the time, and I thought of topless and nude scenes as something that adults (i.e. people a lot older than me) did. I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that Michelle Johnson was exactly the same age as me (we were both born in Sept 1965). I came to the conclusion that if an actress my age were doing topless scenes, I must have reached adulthood myself. The movie is a hilarious comedy without considering the nude scenes--since it is a sex comedy set on and around Rio's topless beaches, the nudity tends to fit right in. And because it is set in Rio (where 'the play gets done') the viewer is allowed to relax and take a vacation for a couple of hours, even if the characters aren't always relaxed in their antics. All in all, you won't find any deep statements about the world here, but it is a really fun movie.
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Summary: The DVD is too dark
Review: I wrote a 4-star review of the VHS version of this movie on 11/22/00. Later I bought the DVD version. The DVD was much darker. Some of the night scenes were almost completely black. This was annoying and made the DVD useless to me. It made no sense to me why they did this. The VHS version is great!
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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: My wife and I both love this movie and never seem to get tired of watching it. Michael Caine was hilarious while Michelle Johnson was really Hot and Sexy. It's a very funny and sexy movie with the beautiful scenery of Rio as the backgound. Very funny, beautiful girls, gorgeous scenery, nice music and a very good story, it has it all. Were so glad when the DVD came out. One of our all time favorites! What more can I say!
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Summary: An...interesting film!
Review: Ok folks, let's just list some pros and cons about this film, shall we? You didn't really care about the *plot* of the film, did you now? PROs:
1) Directed by Stanley Donen, who used to do really good films like Charade or Singin' in the Rain.
2) Has some rather lovely scenario throughout, of the human kind and also of the plant kind. In fact, it remains me of Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (I loved that film as a kid).
3) It's actually a rather funny film, like one of those 1930s screwball comedies or 1950s Cary Grant comedies, albeit with a lot of nudity. The music sets a nice, light-hearted mood for the film.
4) Michelle Johnson shows us a *couple* of good reasons to watch this film, too! And boy does she show us...
5) Michael Caine, normally a good actor, is also in this film.
6) The DVD itself has a solid transfer of a good source print. It's nice to know the film looks good!
7) Uh, it's an inexpensive DVD. Cons:
1) Demi Moore is in this film. Ok, she doesn't show us anything really, so we're just stuck with her acting. At least she does a decent job in a somewhat thankless role.
2) Michael Caine is in this film. For a normally good actor, this is one of his more forgettable roles, although he was pretty funny at times, I must admit.
3) Michelle Johnson comes from the Tanya Roberts' school of acting. I'm not kidding. She got a Razzy Award for this (worst actress of the year), and it's not hard to see why. Or hear why, actually. Every time she opens her mouth, you are reminded that she was obviously not cast for her acting ability.
4) The DVD itself is practically monophonic sound (booo....) and has nothing of significance in the extras (cast info, trailer, that's it really).
5) I've seen this film advertised in stores as "A gift for Dad!" Trust me, if you are a daughter, this is NOT the sort of film to buy dear old dad.
6) The storyline, though funny, is somewhat lame (but you didn't really care about the plot, right?). And the direction makes this look like a second-rate TV movie. Okay, an HBO TV movie. Bottom line - Ok, the acting won't win any awards (good awards, that is) and the premise of the film is questionnable (married man has affair with YOUNG daughter of best friend at topless beach), but it is fairly fun and may make you laugh, intentionally or not. I had a good time watching this film; if you have a couple of hours to spare, why not go ahead and try this film out?
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