My review was written in June 1992 after watching the movie on HBO video cassette.
Wise-cracking Corey Feldman highlights this summer comedy, which should do just fine for HBO Video in the rental market. Film received a modest theatrical run in March in Cincinnati and various Southern cities.
Series dates back 13 years to the Ivan Reitmn-helmed Canadian comedy "Meatballs", which launched Bill Murray as a major movie star. Subsequent entries have strayed from the young campers format; the fourth more closely resembles "Hot Dog... The Movie" on water skis.
Feldman portray a ne'er-do-well water skier hired by owner Jack Nance to serve as recreation director of Lakeside Water Ski Camp. Their enemy is Sarah Douglas of nearby Twin Oaks camp who wants to buy Nance out and use his site for real estate development.
Two cmps are competing in an annual sk mee and Douglas' henchmen contrive to sabotage Feldman's efforts. Lakeside wins anyway an the film climaxes in a corny, winner-take-all rematch.
Lame plotting is just an excuse for some okay water skiing stunts. Filmmaker Bob Logan takes care to include t&a jiggle scenes of his scantily clad female cast (such as a game of strip charades), which should gain high marks among adolescent video renters.
Feldman's act is obnoxious, but that's what the script calls for. He even includes some self-deprecating humor at fadeout, when he turns to the camera to protest that he's a movie star: "I was in "Goonies'".
Nance, prematurely aged looking since starring in David Lynch's "Eraserhead", is amusing, as is the colorfully monickered chubby comedian Johnny Cocktails. Distaff cast is pretty but not given much to do acting-wise.
Wise-cracking Corey Feldman highlights this summer comedy, which should do just fine for HBO Video in the rental market. Film received a modest theatrical run in March in Cincinnati and various Southern cities.
Series dates back 13 years to the Ivan Reitmn-helmed Canadian comedy "Meatballs", which launched Bill Murray as a major movie star. Subsequent entries have strayed from the young campers format; the fourth more closely resembles "Hot Dog... The Movie" on water skis.
Feldman portray a ne'er-do-well water skier hired by owner Jack Nance to serve as recreation director of Lakeside Water Ski Camp. Their enemy is Sarah Douglas of nearby Twin Oaks camp who wants to buy Nance out and use his site for real estate development.
Two cmps are competing in an annual sk mee and Douglas' henchmen contrive to sabotage Feldman's efforts. Lakeside wins anyway an the film climaxes in a corny, winner-take-all rematch.
Lame plotting is just an excuse for some okay water skiing stunts. Filmmaker Bob Logan takes care to include t&a jiggle scenes of his scantily clad female cast (such as a game of strip charades), which should gain high marks among adolescent video renters.
Feldman's act is obnoxious, but that's what the script calls for. He even includes some self-deprecating humor at fadeout, when he turns to the camera to protest that he's a movie star: "I was in "Goonies'".
Nance, prematurely aged looking since starring in David Lynch's "Eraserhead", is amusing, as is the colorfully monickered chubby comedian Johnny Cocktails. Distaff cast is pretty but not given much to do acting-wise.