Details
Director: | Harold Ramis |
Writer: | Harold Ramis, Chris Miller |
Producer: | Trevor Albert, Alan Greisman |
Theatrical: | 1986 |
Rated: | PG-13 |
Studio: | Warner Home Video |
Genre: | Comedy |
Duration: | 1 hr 44 mins |
Languages: | English |
Subtitles: | French |
Sound: | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] |
Aspect Ratio: | Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) |
Picture Format: | Widescreen |
Discs: | 1 |
Region: | Region 1 |
Release: | Jan 1986 |
Summary
Robin Williams went through a period in the mid '80s when he looked like he'd turned into the next Richard Pryor: yet another brilliant standup comic neutered by the script mills of the Hollywood studios. Indeed, Williams seems almost like a spectator in this film, reacting to a supporting cast extremely deep in talent doing what they can with the mediocre script by Brian Doyle-Murray and director Harold Ramis. Williams plays a heroic Chicago fireman, who is injured and retires after saving several lives in a fire. He takes his insurance settlement and buys a resort on a poor Caribbean island (the film was shot in Jamaica). He spends the rest of the time playing straight man to a gaggle of guests that includes such "SCTV" alumni as Rick Moranis, Andrea Gross, Eugene Levy, and Robin Duke, as well as Jimmy Cliff and Peter O'Toole. Occasionally rising to the level of mild amusement, "Club Paradise" is, disappointingly, little more than a series of hit-and-miss sketches strung together by the feeblest of plots. "--Marshall Fine"