1978 Directed by Howard Morris
The toothsome singing duo, Donny and Marie Osmond, head for Hawaii in this comedy. The trouble begins when Marie acquires a lovely necklace without realizing that it is coveted by a group of thieves. An enigmatic woman is also after the necklace. Mayhem, music, and sibling rivalry ensue.
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I like this innocuous Donny & Marie heist comedy despite it's obvious weaknesses. The film has the singers come into possession of a valuable necklace and are chased by bumbling crooks. It comes off like a weak TV movie or a particularly stupid episode of The Hardy Boys, with silly sideplots and annoying song and dance numbers.
Not a bad classic comedy drama crime movie and stars Donny and Marie osmond and it looks incredible in HD love it
I'd forgotten how white movies could be in the 70's because at first I thought I was watching a photographic negative print of 'Sweet Sweetback's Baaad Asss Song'. But no, it's just Donny and Marie's bland Hawaiian vacation - sort of if you took The Brady Bunch's Hawaiian vacation movie and sucked all the color and excitement out of it. Also stars Odd-Job, Inspector Kemp, Lurch, Wo Fat and that guy from Murder, She Wrote.
Donny and Marie Osmond prove that they are even worse actors than they are serious musicians. Maybe that is harsh since I can see a little why they were popular with kids in the 1970's. They have a sweet and wholesome playfulness that I'm sure made parents see them as role models. But their contribution to pop culture is mostly cringe worthy, and this is coming from someone who is from Utah! This nonsense centers around Marie and Donny in Hawaii. Her necklace is stolen because it hides a secret inside. Maybe the secret is the answer to why the film even got bankrolled in the first place. There's not even enough material here for a twenty minute sitcom that gets canceled after its pilot.
Originally reviewed for Cinescene..
The first and only feature film vehicle for Donny and Marie Osmond is by any standards a lousy movie. Jokes are badly timed or just bad: in one chase scene, a villain hijacks a car with a little old lady in the passenger seat , reinforcing the subordination of women in the patriarchal society; the car takes a bad turn and rolls over, the little old lady peering out of a broken window with what one assumes are massive internal injuries. This and other chase scenes are shot at what look to be breakneck speeds upward of 20 mph.
Editing is crude. As Donny sings a ballad to his love interest in the hotel lounge, the…
