See it again for the first time.
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scottrob36 — 15 years ago(March 13, 2011 05:46 AM)
I totally agree with you. I love this feel good film with serious issues that are tackled with lighthearted comedy. I probably saw it for the first time just over 20 years ago and it has lost none of its charm. The location really suits the movie well and the acting is good with some great comedy moments.
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javajuly — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 08:15 PM)
I'm amazed you've seen it, a rather obscure (not at the time, I meant more now) 80s flick that was out the year before your username!
Climb on the back and we'll go for a ride in the sky! Cincy
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franzkabuki — 14 years ago(September 11, 2011 09:39 PM)
I almost believe one needs to be kind of braindead in order to find this tragically dull, unoriginal and unfunny number to be worth anything at all. Dont recall one single "joke" that was even amusing, partly due to the uniformly dismal delivery, but I guess thats understandable cuz how are you gonna spark enthusiasm in Michael Caine towards delivering that crap, anyway? Even the scenery and the nudity are powerless to redeem this terrible accident.
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The_I_G — 10 years ago(October 04, 2015 01:51 AM)
I think you are telling us more about your sense of humor than
about the movie.
I have thought about it many times but I haven't come up with
any other actor who could carry it off as well as Caine did.
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mikeflw1 — 9 years ago(April 02, 2016 05:00 PM)
I agree.
Remember that his wife of many years just informed him she was taking a separate month-long Club Med vacation, almost casually, when they were finishing their final packing for the trip?
To say that character would have been "down" from that newsflash would explain the way Michael Caine played the character, and most of what went on.
This movie might have seemed to be a throw-away fantasy fest, but if you think about it for a bit, there are some pretty well planted lessons that could be seen and maybe learned.
Read down further in this thread for my longer comment about Caine's character sleeping with Victor's daughter, and Nikki's reaction to that too
Victor was long divorced in every sense but the settlement papers, and that (divorce and bad-mouthing his daughter's mother) had to have an effect on his daughter (Michelle Johnson's character) too. -
mikeflw1 — 9 years ago(April 02, 2016 04:32 PM)
Most of the negative comments forgot, or ignore, the movie's set-up to that point, and focus on the topless (rebellious?) daughters, and women, and sex.
What am I talking about?
In more ordinary circumstances, Michael Caine's character may well not have gotten reluctantly involved with his best friend's daughter, even if she was that persistent. The set-up was how he only discovered his wife had planned her own separate month-long Club Med vacation when they were finishing their packing, and went to the airport.
Forgot about that did you?
That was pretty significant, IMHO.
He didn't have time to think much about that with the travel to Brazil, the travel to the villa, the distractions of the new locations, and the dream vacation (which may have been planned as the vacation of a lifetime) spoiled by his wife not going on the vacation with him and their own daughter. To say he was in a vulnerable state might just be a huge understatement.
It would be an entirely different movie if his wife would have been on the trip,
right
?
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Thinking I lost my wife when she went off thinking.
" (The neighbor.)
Remember that was before the daughters at the beach?
I will skip the "spoiler" precautions since this is a long released movie
Caine's "wife" did not go on the Rio trip, because she had been cheating on Caine's character with his best friend! She didn't want to be in the same villa, and not be sure who (and when) she would share the trip with. Caine's character would probably have felt her emotional 'distance' before the trip, and would have been more vulnerable because of that as well. Did the daughters (yes, both or either of them) know before the trip? It seemed that Nicole/Nikki (Demi Moore) might have known, or at least suspected, and, her mother 'talked with her' alone, just after telling Caine's character and before they took the taxis to the airport
TA-DA!
And you have the movie BLAME IT ON RIO!
I may be mistaken, but have there been
ANY comments
about the cigar smoking woman Victor slept with, as her twelfth lover in the twelve days since she left her husband? (And he didn't care when she told him really?)