I have to admit I have a soft spot for this movie, despite it's obvious cheesieness. Why? Well, because in the life of almost every boy comes the time where he realizes that girls/women are rather fascinating. Well, if that boy is interested in girls in the first place, of course.
I saw this movie here in Germany one Sunday morning where it was shown as a rerun from the previous evening. I think it was on RTL 2 (a really small TV station, so I guess they could get away with the mild nudity in the morning?)
I watched it with my brother and a few friends, and well... a few boys, just hitting puberty. Lots of girls in bikinis. No wonder we left this movie on. But it wasn't just the girls, we were invested in the story as well, we wanted Alan and Todd to succeed against all odds. We wanted Alan to realize that Ronnie is the right woman for him, not Jane. We even chuckled at some of the jokes. Or, to put it in another way: We were 100% the target audience of this flick.
In retrospect, the movie is bad, of course. Predictable and unfunny and very sexist. Only thing that's still the same is the good looking girls in bikinis. Plus Barbara Horan is still as cute looking as I remembered her.
Overall, this movie is a guilty pleasure for me. If you haven't seen it when you were around 14 years old, then I guess you shouldn't watch it at all, because it really doesn't have much to offer. There are far better movies out there.
I saw this movie here in Germany one Sunday morning where it was shown as a rerun from the previous evening. I think it was on RTL 2 (a really small TV station, so I guess they could get away with the mild nudity in the morning?)
I watched it with my brother and a few friends, and well... a few boys, just hitting puberty. Lots of girls in bikinis. No wonder we left this movie on. But it wasn't just the girls, we were invested in the story as well, we wanted Alan and Todd to succeed against all odds. We wanted Alan to realize that Ronnie is the right woman for him, not Jane. We even chuckled at some of the jokes. Or, to put it in another way: We were 100% the target audience of this flick.
In retrospect, the movie is bad, of course. Predictable and unfunny and very sexist. Only thing that's still the same is the good looking girls in bikinis. Plus Barbara Horan is still as cute looking as I remembered her.
Overall, this movie is a guilty pleasure for me. If you haven't seen it when you were around 14 years old, then I guess you shouldn't watch it at all, because it really doesn't have much to offer. There are far better movies out there.