
With a name like Hoops McCann, he's bound to get that basketball scholarship after high school, right? Wrong! What Hoops really wants to do is write and illustrate a love story. To help him find his way, his friend George invites Hoops to come with him and his sister to spend the summer on Nantucket. The friends Crazy Summer begins when they pickup Cassandra on the way--she's being chased by a motorcycle gang. From here on in, it only gets crazier. Once on the island, Hoops a... (Full plot summary below)
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With a name like Hoops McCann, he's bound to get that basketball scholarship after high school, right? Wrong! What Hoops really wants to do is write and illustrate a love story. To help him find his way, his friend George invites Hoops to come with him and his sister to spend the summer on Nantucket. The friends Crazy Summer begins when they pickup Cassandra on the way--she's being chased by a motorcycle gang. From here on in, it only gets crazier. Once on the island, Hoops and George, along with George's island friends the Stork twins and Ack-Ack (son of a marine), must help Cassandra save her grandfather's house from the greedy Beckersted Family. Along the way, Hoops must find a way to write his cartoon love story - and maybe a real one of his own.
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| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasHolland fills this film with so many throwaway gags that it is impossible to communicate the outright zaniness. Every scene contains dozens of jokes, some that work and some that don't, but they keep coming so fast and furious that the duds are easily forgotten. Strung together on the flimsiest of plots, Holland's film works as well as it does because he stocks it with several likably eccentric characters. While certainly not for all tastes, it's refreshing teenage fare, and underlying its cartoony insouciance is a welcome touch of innocence. |
| Chicago ReaderPat GrahamNot a bad film, and certainly more polished than Holland's "Better Off Dead" debut, though it's marred by unevenness and the director's ineradicable penchant for infantile clowning (think Three Stooges, think Soupy Sales and worse). |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonSome of the early imagery... seems to suggest that anything is possible in this "crazy" universe, but the wrap-up is just so aggravatingly bland. |
| Washington PostPaul AttanasioThe film is so successful at turning your brain into something resembling mashed potatoes that it is not clear when you'll be able to respond to intelligible stimuli again. |
| Oregon HeraldMark SellsQuirky, fun comedy with John Cusack - classic 80's summer fare |
| User ReviewJared CZany, wacky, no-holds-barred (And very atypical) romantic comedy starring a young John Cusack & Demi Moore, he as a wanna-be Basketball star, and she as a free-spirited dreadlock-wearing hippie-chick singer who band together with Cusack's memorably-bizarre assortment of friends--Bill Murray's chubby, younger sibling Joel, stocky little gnome Curtis Armstrong, gawky Tom Villard, and the wildly-manic Bobcat Goldthwaite-- in the hope of saving Moore's grandfather's home from ruthless developers. Rife with side-splitting set-pieces, outrageous, almost surreal happenings, & wild dialogue. Moore is interesting here, playing an atypically-non-glamorous part, and the budding romance between she and Cusack's character is improbable, but amusing. Director Savage Steve Holland also helmed the almost-as-funny "Better Off Dead" , also with Cusack. |
| User ReviewNancy HAnd the other Savage Steve Holland masterpiece. Of course having my boy mr.Cusack in it doesn't hurt either |
| User ReviewAj VA hilarious movie from Savage Steve Holland, director of Better Off Dead, which also starred Cusack. This movie is a bit more goofy, but it's got a good story and a lot of quirky characters, and I loved it, it's a perfect summer comedy. |
| User ReviewKristina KI love this movie. It was a great early film for John Cusack and Demi Moore. Bobcat Goldthwait is hilarious as the Stork twin Egg. Jeremy Piven is also another thing to enjoy in John Cusack films. Just love it! I enjoy it every time I watch it :) |
| User ReviewLisa Rjust a crazy goofy ass comedy , that makes you laugh . look out !!! A giant dolphin with Rabies !!! |