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Just Out August 5, 2008 - VE Picks

Would you believe Season One of Get Smart?

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

I Got the Feelin':
James Brown in the '60s


Original Star Trek:
Season Two—Remastered

VE's SummerFest: One Crazy Summer

 

One Crazy Summer
1986 
Warner Home Video
PG

Cast • John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Matt Mulhern, Curtis Armstrong, Joel Murray, Mark Metcalf, Tom Villard, Kimberly Foster, Jeremy Piven, Billie Bird, Joe Flaherty, William Hickey

Writer/Director • "Savage" Steve Holland

A MORE STUPID MOVIE probably doesn't exist. As in his earlier film with John Cusack, Better Off Dead, director/writer "Savage Steve Holland's brand of humor is an idiotic gagfest. Some work, some don't, but folks they just keep comin'. The ironically named Hoops (Cusack) is an aspiring cartoonist who heads off to Nantucket with pal George (Joel Murray) after graduating from high school. Along the way, Hoops and George meet Cassandra (Moore), a "singer" who is trying to save her grandfather's home from being bought by evil developer Aguilla Beckertsted (Metcalf, who played Niedermeyer in Animal House). Beckersted's spoiled and nasty son Teddy (Mulhern) makes trouble for our heroes, who by now also include the Stork Twins (Bobcat and Villard) and Ack Ack (Armstrong). Variations on both the "let's put on a show" and "our only hope is to win the big race" scenarios ensue.

Egg Stork: Ack Ack, let me tell you a little story. A story about a little fat kid who everybody made fun of, and nobody liked and he had a twin brother, and everybody said he never looked like his twin brother, but he wanted to...

Ack Ack : Egg, were you that little boy?

Egg Stork: No! No! But I used to beat the shit out him! "Why are you so fat? Why are so ugly?" Aaagghh! 

The cast is great (although you'd be hard-pressed to find a couple with less chemistry than Cusack and Moore), it's shot on-location in Nantucket, and you get scenes involving overexposure to methane, John "The Tooz" Matuszak in a men's room, Demi Moore "rocking out" while holding a guitar, a visit to a local drive-in (nope, there's not really one on Nantucket), and Bobcat in a Godzilla suit.   • DAVE YOUNT

Notes:

+Ack Ack's name probably came from the three letter abbreviation for Nantucket, ACK.

+The name Hoops McCann is from the Steely Dan song "Glamour Profession."

+Savage Steve Holland created the animated Whammy for the game show "Press Your Luck."

+ Don't miss Taylor Negron and Rich Hall as nasty gas station attendents. (Nice outfits.)