gmacd1 I was in my senior year of high school. A bunch of us loaded up in cars and drove to a movie theater in a nearby town. The school had only 150 students and the town was/is still small. Anyway, we all went into the movie theater and before the movie started the class president who was also the clown decided to introduce us as the Class of 87 and this was our senior nite out. He proceeded down the line with all of the class and told people their names nicknames. A few minutes later the manager came out and told us we'd better behave or get thrown out.That alone made this movie memorable too me.

OxMoron Robin Williams and friends from the Second City gang take a vacation on the lovely, fictional isle of St.Nicholas (filmed in Jamaica) in the summer of 1985 and bring along Peter O'Toole, Twiggy and Jimmy Cliff. They even remember to make a feature film while they are there. Too bad they forgot to include more laughs. Sunstroke maybe? Enjoy the tropical locations and songs by reggae star Jimmy Cliff. The mindless and undeveloped story wastes a ton of comic talent. Fans of Williams and SCTV will get a kick of seeing all the comic actors in one place, but will be hard pressed to enjoy it. I think their home videos of the trip would have been funnier to watch. For some reason I find myself watching it every now and again.Turn your brain down to 'warm,sunny Caribbean beach' mode and just enjoy the few entertaining bits of this studio-funded holiday.

Lee Eisenberg 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.

lawrence142002 When I first saw this movie listed in TV Guide, I said to myself: "I must see this movie..." After viewing it, I asked myself what had gone wrong. Was it a bad cast???? Hardly. In fact, this is one of the best assembled comedic casts in any film I've ever seen. Was it bad direction???? No. Harold Ramis did a good job, though he wasn't at his best. Was it the script???? Possibly. Although I believe the true answer is character development was overlooked. Williams, O'Toole, and the rest of the cast are hampered by characters that are dull and uninteresting. I'm an aspiring screenwriter myself, and after I watched this film, I said to myself: "I could have written better characters..." That my dear friends is what went wrong.