A documentary that focuses on a dangerously legendary water park and its slew of injuries and crimes along with child safety concerns.... (Full plot summary below)
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A documentary that focuses on a dangerously legendary water park and its slew of injuries and crimes along with child safety concerns.
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| RogerEbert.comNick AllenA sharp, funny, and bizarrely responsible documentary about an amusement park in Vernon, New Jersey. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe documentary infers a good deal about Mulvihill’s underworld connections and political maneuvers without quite nailing them down. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattThe movie's just pure fun; a cock-eyed Valentine to a place so outrageous that death or dismemberment was an actual acceptable risk — but so was the chance to live, as one former security guard fondly recalls, in “an ‘80s movie that was real life. And it will never happen again.” |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerYet Porges (who pops up as an expert talking head) and co-director Chris Charles Scott III never quite hit an even tone - or rather, there's a big divide, like bouncing along on a kiddy coaster that suddenly turns into a brutal corkscrew with a massive drop at the end. |
| ScreenCrushMatt SingerLike the resort it captures, everything in this film is fun and games right up until the moment someone gets seriously injured. |
| The New York TimesJason BaileyClass Action Park loses its footing somewhat in the closing passages; Scott and Porges don’t seem to know quite how to wrap things up, and the film’s big tonal shift is a turning point that is all but impossible to come back from. |
| The A.V. ClubCharles BramescoFor all its attempts to build itself into something more substantive, it’s still a day at the theme park. |
| Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonNarrated quite drolly by comedian John Hodgman, Class Action Park is very funny in its dark way, the interviewees are all charmingly surprised that they lived through their teenage years and there’s a remarkable amount of action footage from the park, considering that it predates cellphones. (The animation by Richard Langberg is amusing, too.) Where the film has a problem is Mulvihill. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneyClass Action Park tries with only partial success to capture the dissonance between the funny war stories told about that hazardous site and how awful and tragic it was that young people lost their lives there. |
| User ReviewgeewahAn entertaining and funny doco on this legendary theme park. It doesn't take it's self too seriously, which is in keeping with park itself. |
