Club Paradise

1986

Action / Comedy

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 11% · 28 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 36% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 7421 7.4K

tropical island

Director

Harold Ramis Photo
Harold Ramis

Top cast

Robin Williams Photo
Robin Williams as Jack Moniker
Joe Dorsey Photo
Joe Dorsey as Data Processing Supervisor
Rick Moranis Photo
Rick Moranis as Barry Nye
Eugene Levy Photo
Eugene Levy as Barry Steinberg
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877.89 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 2
1.59 GB
1918*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mjk280-523-908286 4 / 10

Missed opportunity

I don't know why this couldn't have just been Robin Williams running or fixing up a hotel. That's a great, simple premise. Alternatively, this also could've been Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy as two clueless buffoons trying to get laid at a beach resort.Instead of either of those ideas, the movie decides to go with the most overly-complicated script I think I've ever seen for a comedy. There are so many characters and so many of them get their own scenes that go on for quite awhile. As a result, Robin Williams isn't even in the movie for significant stretches.The filmmakers seemed to think this would be more of an ensemble with a lot of strong comedic actors and that was a mistake. Some of the others are okay, but not enough to sideline Williams for half the movie. They had a great lead actor and a script that could've written itself but decided to overcomplicate things.The last 20 minutes of the movie take a crazy left turn into a civil war taking place on this Caribbean island. It's so bizarre and a little tasteless too with how comedic it's portrayed. It was the 80s I suppose. The ending took this down from a 5/10 though. It really hurts the movie, which could've just ended with comedic hijinx with Robin fooling the rich guys into not buying the property. IThis review is becoming as convoluted as the script it talks about, so in the end I'll just say they whiffed and could've easily had a fun comedy with Robin Williams in a fun setting. They literally made their jobs harder and made a worse movie because of it.
Reviewed by gwnightscream 6 / 10

"Good, Wacky 80's Comedy!"

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 6 / 10

Long live the Caribbean, mahn!

Before Robin Williams solidly established himself as a star in "Good Morning, Vietnam", he starred in several innocuously silly movies such as "Club Paradise". He plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago firefighter who retires and moves to the Caribbean island of St. Nicholas. There, he joins up with tour guide Ernest Reed (Jimmy Cliff) and the two of them open a wild business, with the help of Gov. Anthony Cloyden Hayes (Peter O'Toole). Once the rich American tourists start arriving, the high finks take off.The movie is mostly an excuse for a bunch of goofy things to happen, especially when the characters played by Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis embarrass themselves. True, Williams did better with some of his later work, but "Club Paradise" is still pretty funny.
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