Roger Corman's (Julie Corman's, rather) attempt to cash in on that National Lampool Vacation money suffers from looking too cheap - it's set on not-overly-pretty Catalina Island when it cries out for Hawaii or something - but it has a decent star in Charles Grodin (who rewrote the script) and is full of emerging stars in small roles, like many a Corman film: Mario Van Peebles having a high old time as a local (it's set in the Caribbean), Megan Mullaley (wearing a bikini and quite hot as Grodin's horny daughter forever making out with a local hunk), Phil Hartman (who has a funny scene discussing 'Step by Step' with Grodin), and Jon Lovitz (bartender).
This isn't bad. It took a while to get its groove. I like how the women were more sexually aggressive eg the wife who goes topless. That felt different. Plots felt undeveloped - all the kids needed a resolution. The local revolutionary plot was really small - they only come in at the end.
It's like the script needed another pass or just a script edit and then some more production value.
I love how Julie Corman kept trying to produce medium level comedies - that was novelty.
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