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Summary: Good eighties flick!
Review: I've recently rented this and Better Off Dead, and this is my favorite of the two (which should be seen together). It's funny, and a great geeks-beat-the-cool-guy movie. There are really cool animation shorts, Demi Moore sings (if that's actually her voice) and it's also got Bobcat Golthplait and Jeremy Piven as a preppy jerk. I laughed out loud. My favorite scenes were the one where the preppy bullies make a human basketball hoop out of one of Cusack's friends and when Bobcat Golthplait gets stuck in a Godzilla costume and crashes a party. Definately worth viewing.
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Summary: "Go back to your feline world."
Review: If I had to list my top 20 favorite comedies, this would have to be in that list somewhere. Lighthearted and funny, and the DVD contains a commentary track that had me laughing throughout. If you like this one, check out "Better Off Dead", also by Savage Steve Holland and starring John Cusack.
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Summary: "Go back to your feline world."
Review: If I had to list my top 20 favorite comedies, this would have to be in that list somewhere. Lighthearted and funny, and the DVD contains a commentary track that had me laughing throughout. If you like this one, check out "Better Off Dead", also by Savage Steve Holland and starring John Cusack.
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Summary: A Brilliant and Hilarious Comedic Experience
Review: If you liked Better Off Dead, then you'll love this wonderfully mastered thrill ride. The beauty of Demi Moore combined with the charm of John Cusack, surely a movie you'll want to add to your collection. The challenging life of the college grad Hoops McCan finds conflict and love in a small New England town with his buddy George. Look for the brightness of Bobcat in his role as a Stork twin. This movie is all laughs from beginning to end - 80's style!
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Summary: This movie is amazing!!![...]
Review: Ok, so it doesn't fall into the category of a cinematic masterpiece, but it certainly is in the top of its class. This flick milks the 80's cookie cutter genre for all it's worth and then some, the other reviews that mention Better Off Dead as being a required view with this film are correct in my opinion. Very well acted and the script is well written. The comedy flows nonstop and definitely one I will own on DVD!
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Summary: One of the great goofy comedies
Review: One Crazy Summer is not a serious film; it's a comedy with a cartoonish style, but it's a wonderful example of what such an exaggeratedly wacky movie should be. Starting on the foundation of the basic 1980s screwball comedy, it transcends the other B movies of that genre with its characters and its own unique laugh-out-loud moments.Bobcat Goldthwait in particular steals the show as Egg Stork, but he's still there to back up the main character Hoops McCann (John Cusack), whose own cartoon creations--the cute and fuzzy bunnies--are determined to thwart his quest to find love. The standard '80s comedy elements come into play with Cassandra (Demi Moore), who's trying to save her grandfather's house from a nasty stereotype villain who wants to build a lobster restaurant in its place. Everything seems to click pretty well in the movie; it doesn't have any dull spots and the humor stays pretty fresh even at a second and third viewing. It's become one of my perennial favorites. There are some especially worthwhile moments, mostly due to Bobcat's wonderful zaniness. The Godzilla scene alone makes the movie memorable. The cartoons drawn by Cusack's character appear now and then to illustrate how his search for love is going; those cute and fuzzy bunnies are vicious. Parents take note: This is family fare; feel free to watch it with your kids. There's nothing really objectionable in the movie, and Demi stays dressed for a change. It's plenty funny without being raunchy, which is fairly refreshing. If you like a good top-of-the-line goofy B movie as much as I do, One Crazy Summer belongs in your collection. I can't wait for it to appear on DVD.
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Summary: Screwball comedy at its best!!!
Review: Savage Steve Holland ("Better Off Dead", "How I Got Into College", and the defunct "The Adventures of Beans Baxter" TV series) is truly one of the best comedy writers/directors I've seen next to Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, John Hughes, & the Coen Brothers! "One Crazy Summer" presents a warped buffet of insanely funny antics, jokes, visuals (both live and animated), and underdog heroes headed up by a decent all-star cast. John Cusack's "Hoops" McCann is unforgettably hilarious; he's a somewhat-underachieving, helpless-romantic, and terribly hydrophobic teenager who usually "tends to wallow in his artistic miseries". His best friend George also has his own share of personal doomsdays that include a dilapidated 1970's Caddy, a vengeful kid sister who seeks out & destroys anyone who picks on her poor, sick pooch Bosco, an offbeat grandma and a reclusive, bazooka-wielding uncle who'd make even tight-lipped William F. Buckley cringe, and of course, no summer girls at his side! Other memorable characters in this flick include "Hoops" & George's nerdy pacifist friend AgAg (Curtis Armstrong), AgAg's gung-ho military pop ("SCTV's" Joe Flaherty), villianous developer Mr. Beckerstead ("Animal House's" Mark Metcalf), and uproariously loud-mouthed mechanic Egg Stork (as Bobcat Goldwaithe could only play) alongside his goofy, mismatched twin brother Clay (Tom Villard) (these two guys make a pathetically lovable dimwitted duo)! The story focuses on "Hoops" and George's zany misadventures following their high school graduation on the summer haven of Nantucket Island. They and their misfit friends try to aid their starving-artist chum Cassandra (Demi Moore) by saving her late grandfather's coastal home from being turned into a beachfront restaurant by the evil, wealthy Beckerstead clan (check out "Christmas Vacation" star William Hickey as the grumpy, ear-pinching, cigar-smoking patriarch). While in the process of helping Cassandra out, "Hoops" and his buds contend with overzealous wilderness troop tykes, "giant dolphins with rabies", wacky beachgoers, Drive-In bloopers, tormentful jocks, dog bullies, trying to get the girls, and building a Ferrari-charged schooner that they ostentatiously name as "The Boat"! Also, "One Crazy Summer" boasts an awsome soundtrack consisting of songs by The Beach Boys and Honeymoon Suite. One thing's for sure, I wished Holland would have kept on crankin' out the sure-fire laughs that are uniquely delivered in his films and shows! He and Cusack were an unbeatable comedy combo in the 1980's! Outrageously silly and sweet, especially for a "PG" rating, "One Crazy Summer" is a must-see for any die-hard comedy fan!
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Summary: John and a very young Demi for one crazy summer
Review: This is a light comedy that was prolific early in the 80's. Along the lines of Meatballs and Caddy Shack, you either like it or not. It is easy to watch, with John playing around with cartoons that have provided me with funny lines in many conversations. Vary hard to find a copy in a video shop. so if you are in to this sort of American humor get it!!
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Summary: Another 80's Movie
Review: This is another John Cusack movie from the 1980's. It is not his best, but is still an entertaining movie for all those kids who have had the summer jobs and have wracked up hours of daydreaming. This movie has funny animations like that of Better Off Dead, another John Cusack 80's movie. Nonetheless, I give this movie three stars.
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Summary: This is One Crazy Movie!!
Review: This is one of the craziest movies I've ever seen, and in my opinion this movie is better than "Better Off Dead"(Savage Steve Holland's previous flick). This film stars the wonderful John Cusack as Hoops McCann, a struggling cartoonist who takes a trip to Nantucket to visit his relatives. Once there he meets an oddball group of characters. His cousin, George (Joel Murray--brother of Bill Murray) , is a simple-minded guy and the best looking one out of his group of nerdy friends. George's family is even crazier than his friends are, with a wacky grandmother and a sinister little sister and her flea-ridden dog. His uncle Frank is a virtual recluse who sits by the radio all day trying to win the same contest he's been trying to win for years. Ack Ack Raymond is the smallest guy out of the bunch and the wimpiest. Ack Ack's father is a gung-ho boyscout leader and ex-marine, thus there's a conflicting relationship between him and his father. Dont worry Ack Ack gets medieval later in the movie; this guy also played "Booger" on Revenge of the Nerds. Then theres the Stork twins, Clay and Egg Stork; the latter is played by Bobcat Goldthwait, you know, the guy from police academy who talks funny. These guys come up against Teddy Beckersted, a snobby young man, and his rich developer father, and their socialite friends. They are trying to take away the home of Casandra (Demi Moore), an aspiriing singer, so they can build their condos on the property. Throughout the movie these two groups are constantly pulling pranks on each other, that finally culminates in a regatta sail ship contest, in which the boys get their own boat and fix it up. Get ready for a funny surprise at the end of this race. At the same time Hoops develops a romance with Casandra. Add to this movie numerous interludes of bizarre cartoons with devilish animated bunny rabbits. This movie is very corny but very funny too. This is the type of movie you can just sit back to and enjoy all the wackiness. In my opinion Uncle Frank steals the show, especially at the end. Get ready to laugh your socks off!
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