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Cinematical's Friday Night Double Feature: Dangerous Vacations
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Between Forgetting Sarah Marshall last week, and Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay this week, the comedy world is all aflutter with dangerous vacations, whether that danger is watching your newly ex-girlfriend snuggle up to her raunchy new pop-star boyfriend, or heading to Amsterdam to get some Maria lovin'.
So this time around, I figured I would dip into vacations that go bad. We could break into the smaller-scale travel films, where protagonists only go a town or state over, but Harold and Kumar already did the close traveling. Now they're going a heck of a lot farther. Interesting adventures, strange people, and romantic dysfunction are the players in this game, and for this week's double feature, I give you: Blame it on Rio and Joe Versus the Volcano.
And, just to be clear, me choosing two infamously bad movies says nothing about my thoughts on H&K. I swear!
Moore and Caine, Together Again
Remember way back in 1984, when a young Demi Moore played Michael Caine's daughter in Blame it on Rio?
(Believe me, Roger
Ebert does. I think he's still pissed off about that movie.) Well, the wait is finally over for all 12 of
you who have been hoping against hope that they'd one day team up again: the pair has signed on to costar in director
Michael Radford's Flawless - and this time,
they won't be related. Nudge nudge.In the movie, Caine plays a pissed off janitor at a jewelry store (You already know where this is going, don't you?) who spends a lot of his time dreaming about pulling a heist, and walking away with the shop's entire inventory. Lucky for both him and the movie, he runs into Moore, who is also pissed off. She's an executive whose progress upward within in her company (presumably the same one that employs Caine) has been "stymied by the old boys' network." Together, they make robbery magic. Flawlessly, of course. The film, which is set in 60s London and, as a result, suddenly sounds much more appealing, is due to begin filming later this month.
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