Blame It on Rio
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Movie Reviews of Blame It on Rio
Movie Review: The DVD is too dark
Summary: 2 Stars
I wrote a 4-star review of the VHS version of this movie on 11/22/00. Later I bought the DVD version. The DVD was much darker. Some of the night scenes were almost completely black. This was annoying and made the DVD useless to me. It made no sense to me why they did this. The VHS version is great!Movie Review: Bad script, nice scenery
Summary: 2 Stars
I can't believe we were watching the same movie here. Apart from the gorgeous body of Michelle Johnson and the scenic shots of Rio there is very little to like about this flick. Michelle's acting is bad, the script is sophomorish, the audio is amateurish, and subject matter borders on disgusting.Movie Review: Pedophilia as entertainment?
Summary: 1 Stars
What's with all the glowing customer reviews? A "great" movie? An entertaining, lighthearted sex romp? Harmless, fluffy fun? Absolutely not.
Plain and simple, this is a story of a middle-aged man conducting an affair with a teenaged girl. This is not the stuff of comedy, and there is only one name for such a man: a sexual predator.
I'm no prude, and I don't object to such subject matter in and of itself. For an intelligent, heartbreaking study of a very similar story - both films tell of of young girls seducing adult men - see Adrian Lyne's astonishing production of Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita," where the male protagonist is drawn as complexly brutal and yet also somehow unsettlingly sympathetic, but is in the end, without question, named for what he is: a monster. In "Rio," this is all played for laughs: the Michael Caine character is seen as a sort of amusing, lovable dolt, seduced by the 17-year-old daughter of his best friend; we are asked to buy into the idea that he really has no choice, and that his decision to bed the girl is understandable and forgiveable. Indeed, he suffers no consequences to his actions; he doesn't lose his friendship with the girl's father, and even his wife, it is strongly suggested, eventually forgives him, while the teenager herself rides off into the sunset on the arm of a young man her own age.
Reprehensible stuff indeed.
Movie Review: This is Donen?
Summary: 1 Stars
Hard to believe that Stanley Donen directed this movie. The plot is a male fantasy of the worst kind - older man seduced by a teenage girl without any negative consequences ("he never really had a chance", she says, suggesting he doesn't have to feel guilty); because she is his friend's daughter and his daughter's friend there are clear undertones of incest (the daughter confesses she had a crush on her father which might be perfectly innocent in other circumstances but takes on an ominous meaning when her friend takes her own "crush" to a very physical level); there is generally poor acting (Michael Caine projects very clearly how awkward he felt about this role, Joseph Bologna is - well, Joseph Bologna, and it's almost incomprehensible why anyone gave another role to Demi Moore after this movie), the soundtrack is awful and the cinematography tired and cliché-ridden. The only redeeming feature is Michelle Johnson who is just a joy to watch, with and without her clothes on.
The movie makes you realize how times have changed. I doubt any major Hollywood director would do a film with this much nudity today, which is a pity. 20 years later the US is even more uptight about these things than in Ronald Reagan's time (while hardcore porno movies are sold in the next aisle at your local DVD outlet) - I guess that's progress of a sort ...
Movie Review: Blame it on the Actors, Writers, Director et al.
Summary: 1 Stars
Unfunny and sordid tale about an aging man (Michael Caine)who goes down to Rio and has an affair with his best friend's (Joseph Bolognna) teenage daughter, played by Michelle Johnson.Most of this mess fails to find any laughs and how any characters with any sense of decency could stoop this low. Of course, this could be a statement about the general lack of morality in Hollywood where a babysitter one day becomes a wife the next.
Valerie Harper and Demi Moore have decent, if undersued roles. Caine, of course, has gotten much better roles in recent years. These days though, the only attraction in this movie is to see Michelle Johnson, who is now Michelle Williams, wife of Matt Williams of the World Series winning Arizona Diamondbacks. Hope she is set for life so she never has to dig this low for a role again.