Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936694680
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 26, 2005
Running Time: 80 minutes
Sales Rank: 33286
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-04
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Charles Grodin (THE WOMAN IN RED, MIDNIGHT RUN, BEETHOVEN, DAVE) and Jon Lovitz (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, SMALL TIME CROOKS, CITY SLICKERS, BIG) can be found vacationing at Club Sand, a tropical resort with the wackiest escapades in the Caribbean! From the writers of REVENGE OF THE NERDS comes a comedy escape on the wildest isle ever. Club Sand's idea of 'deluxe accommodations' is army cots. The counselors specialize in seduction, and armed guerillas could invade any minute -- what a way to relax and unwind! Visit LAST RESORT, a comedy oasis where the only things that work are the jokes! Also starring Megan Mullally (WILL & GRACE, MONKEYBONE), John Ashton (BEVERLY HILLS COP, MIDNIGHT RUN), Phil Hartman (NEWS RADIO, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) and Mario Van Peebles (RUDE AWAKENING, POSSE).
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Rating:  - A laugh or two
This cheap rip-off comedy was a popular staple on CInemax or Showtime when it came out. It is filled with some notable comics like Charles Grodin, Gerrit Graham (Used Cars), Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Meagan Mulally (when she was about 20 and slim) and Mario Van Peebles. The talent pool can't balance out the bad writing, a joke or two will hit but as a whole picture, it's void of great laughs.
It's interesting to see how producer Roger Corman hurried this one out. The main location is a tropical island resort and Corman seems to have had built a set consisting of small shacks and canopies somewhere near Malibu instead of actually taking cast and crew to the Caribbean. The scene when the tourists arrive by palne is a riot in it's small potatoes budget- a mix of stock footage and a descent that was done with a tilt of the camera. There is a weak subplot involving revolutionaries trying to take over the island. I wouldn't be surprised if Corman used the guerillas as well as the brief battle scene in another film, a common Corman money-saver.
Zane Busby directed. She also plays head of the resorts daycare. Maybe you'll recognize her acting role from Cheech and Chongs "Up in Smoke" or the abysmal "Americathon".
Rating: - "It's going to be the vacation of a lifetime!"
Producer Roger Corman utilized a number of techniques in the production of his films, two of the main ones being keeping things inexpensive (i.e. cheap) and copying off pre-existing, successful features, both of which apply to the film Last Resort (1986). Directed by Zane Buzby, in his only film to date (he has done some episodic work on television), the film stars Charles Grodin (The Lonely Guy, Midnight Run) as George Lollar, a hapless, overworked husband and father who takes his family on the vacation of a lifetime, one that quickly turns into the trip from hell. Also appearing is Robin Pearson Rose ("Grey's Anatomy"), Gerrit Graham (Used Cars), Phil Hartman (Coneheads), John Ashton (Beverly Hills Cop), Ian `Mr. Pitt' Abercrombie ("Seinfeld"), Mario Van Peebles (Jaws: The Revenge), Jon Lovitz (Rat Race), Brenda Bakke (Demon Knight), Scott Nemes ("The Wonder Years"), and Megan Mullally (Stealing Harvard), who eventually went on to find success as the catty, snobby character Karen Walker in the television series "Will & Grace".
As the film opens it's Christmas time in Chicago, the weather's rotten, and office furniture salesman George Lollar has just lost one of his company's biggest accounts. Feeling burned out he decides to take his family, including wife Shelia (Rose) and children Brad, Jessica (Mullally), and Bobby (Nemes) on a fabulous vacation to a South American resort known as Club Sands. After a plane ride that was more like a thrill ride, the family arrives to discover ... Read More
Rating:  - Go someplace else on your vacation!
I had high hopes for this movie when I purchased it. It had John Lovitz, so I thought it would be funny. However, Lovitz is given little chance to be funny. As it is a Roger Corman flick I expected lots of T & A. However, the DVD fell short in that category too.
The movie centers around a man (Charles Grodin) who is sick of his job and wants to get away from winter. So, she takes his family to a resort to "get away from it all." When he gets there he finds out that the place is more "adult-oriented" than he would like. It has a nude beach and most of the people there are swingers. [Given all this, it makes it even more suprising that there's so little nudity - the film had plenty of opportunities]
The best thing about the film is Robin Pearson Rose. She is exquisite and a fine actress. I'm going to look to see what else she's been in as soon as I'm done w/this review. I'd like to see her in something more worthwhile than this farce. If she would have been exposed in the many teaser scenes of this flick, I would have raised the score to 3 stars. Yes, she is that hot!!
If you want to see a good Roger Corman comedy, check out LOOSE SCREWS. It's far, far better and much more funny than this one.
Rating:  - Packed with future stars -- and hilarious!
This is just classic. Charles Grodin as the straight man, surrounded by Phil Hartmann, Mario van Peebles, young John Lovitz, and other supporting actors. It's at times so stupid it is brilliant. I have seen it about 11 times.
It is an unknown cult classic. Maybe now that the DVD is coming out it will catch on.
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