"One Crazy Summer"
Having watching the first part of the Cusasckian 80s trilogy (unoffical of course) last week, I figured why not watch the second part this weekend? For those who weren't fortunate enough to watch HBO everyday after school circa 1987-1990, One Crazy Summer finds John Cusack venturing to Nantucket, Massachusetts to find love, fun and frivolity with his good friend George Calamari, played by one of the younger brothers of Bill Murray. This film made up part of the core cable movies of my youth, along with such other classics as "Kidco", "Midnight Madness" and the first four Police Academy movies. It also was a significant step up from Better off Dead and is overall a better, if not more memorable flick, for the following reasons:
-Better supporting cast. Between Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis "Booger" Armstrong, Mark Metcalf, Mrs. Feldman from the Police Academy films, the guy who played Sloth in the Goonies, Taylor Negron and Rich Hall, it's a veritable time capsule of 80s comedy.
-Better bad guys. Metcalf and his movie son make quite the gruesome twosome.
-Better love interests. And its not even close. Even if Demi Moore was a few years away from her hotness peak, she and the girl who played Cookie just mop the floor with the dogs from better off dead.
-Better character names: Hoops, Squid Calamari (who says only one line in the whole flick), Egg and Clay Stork, Ak-Ak, Cookie. Just great names.
-Much more quoteable. This may be a point of contention, but Bobcat alone has at least a dozen great ad-libs.
-Finally, the DVD. Granted, I don't own BOD on DVD, but I do own One Crazy Summer. Pretty bare bones release except for the fact that there is a commentary with Savage Steve Holland, Bobcat and Curtis Armstrong. Booger and Bobcat on a commentary? How the hell can you go wrong there?
-Better supporting cast. Between Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis "Booger" Armstrong, Mark Metcalf, Mrs. Feldman from the Police Academy films, the guy who played Sloth in the Goonies, Taylor Negron and Rich Hall, it's a veritable time capsule of 80s comedy.
-Better bad guys. Metcalf and his movie son make quite the gruesome twosome.
-Better love interests. And its not even close. Even if Demi Moore was a few years away from her hotness peak, she and the girl who played Cookie just mop the floor with the dogs from better off dead.
-Better character names: Hoops, Squid Calamari (who says only one line in the whole flick), Egg and Clay Stork, Ak-Ak, Cookie. Just great names.
-Much more quoteable. This may be a point of contention, but Bobcat alone has at least a dozen great ad-libs.
-Finally, the DVD. Granted, I don't own BOD on DVD, but I do own One Crazy Summer. Pretty bare bones release except for the fact that there is a commentary with Savage Steve Holland, Bobcat and Curtis Armstrong. Booger and Bobcat on a commentary? How the hell can you go wrong there?
posted by Mike at 11:05 AM
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