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Hot Resort is an American Lemon Popsicle-style movie without the strangeness of The Last American Teen Virgin. I feel like I could stop writing here, but let's trudge on.
Directed by John Robins, who worked on The Benny Hill Show which had to have served him well in this film, and co-written by Robins, Boaz Davidson (who, yes, made Lemon Popsicle and the American version, the aforementioned The Last American Teen Virgin) and Norman Hudis, who wrote several Carry On movies and lots and lots of TV, Hot Resort has four guys — Marty (Tom Parsekian), Kenny (Michael Berz), Chuck (Dan Schneider, who ends up being in two Cannon movies I watched in two days) and Brad (Bronson Pinchot) — working at a resort and really, that's the plot. There's some Meatballs competition against a rowing team and the winner gets to be in a soup commercial and you know, maybe this movie is pretty strange. Not bringing oranges to the hospital odd, but close.
Also, it seems like every teen comedy has to have some old Hollywood in it, and we all know that Satan is inside every actor from the time, so here's Frank Gorshin. Marcy Walker — ex-daughter-in-law of Dick Warlock — is in this, as well as Debra Kelly and Linda Kenton, Penthouse Pet of the Month May 1983.
There are good 80s sex comedies. Then there's Hot Resort. And Hot Chili, which is the same movie just about.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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Unprofessional American seasonal workers at the Royal St. Kitts irk management and preppie guests. This hotel apparently does not hire locals. Very annoying comedy. Golan-Globus should have stuck to action films. This was worse than Hot Chili.
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02/13/23
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During the 1980's, raunchy teen comedies saturated the marketplace and while a handful became classics, most were made quickly to make a quick buck and quickly disappear. The blandly titled "Hot Resort" definitely falls into that last category, and the film is simply pieced together from the decade's worst films to make a new, super-awful film.
It's full of raunchy humor but not a single laugh, and it's obviously modeled after "Police Academy" with a motley bunch of rejects bucking the system. It's class conflict at its worse with the working class slobs versus the rich kids, and the film is little more than a collection of vignettes with the barest thread tying it all together.
Only a handful of the large ensemble cast made a name for themselves after this debacle, but that short list doesn't include the film's star, Tom Parsekian. That name doesn't exactly translate well to stardom, and he's basically a poor man's Michael Keaton. He only made one other film after the bad taste from this one faded away. It's chock full of distasteful jokes and gay stereotypes, which were common in films like this, and even culminates in a sports competition between the jocks and the screw-ups. You don't get much more common that that.
And the production values are shockingly low. This looks years older than it really is. "Hot Resort" takes the worst elements of the genre and sinks it even lower. The most offensive thing about this is how ordinary it is.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/17/23
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Love bad 80s movies!
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/12/23
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Love bad 80s movies!
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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Even by Golan-Globus standards, this one is a stinker. "Hot Resort" is just a bad movie -- the boom mic even appears twice in one scene! What is supposed to be a class warfare comedy is a misfire. The most interesting thing about this movie is the cast list, which includes Frank Gorshin (The Riddler in the 1966 "Batman"), Bronson Pinchot ("Beverly Hills Cop" and TV's "Perfect Strangers"), Marcy Walker (who would go on to a 23-year career on "All My Children"), Mae Questel (the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl in the classic Popeye cartoons; also played Aunt Bethany in "Christmas Vacation"), and Dan Schneider (TV's "Head of the Class" and producer of kids' TV shows "All That," "Zoey 101," "iCarly" and others).
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/17/23
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