The Only Thing Worth watching in this is the charming performance of Shelley Long as the beleaguered housewife and mother who has a 30-second demand of silence and decides that she needs to get away from her overbearing family and go away with her two college girlfriends to Paradise Beach Florida for a little r&r. The first 5 minutes of the film might make certain people either turn the channel or pull the DVD out and fling it across the room because Long's family is one of the most obnoxious I seen on screen, and I've seen some pretty obnoxious TV sitcom and movie families. They certainly aren't the Brady Bunch, the more popular of the TV moms (for the big screen) that Long had played.
I really had little interest in her two friends, both cliched and cold characters, one a recent divorcee and the other a hard-nosed business woman, both manipulated by Long to meet up with her, finding out that the hotel they once stayed at has been condemned (even though Long had just apparently made a reservation. They end up in the hotel run by Ian Zierling who has one of the feel amusing moments, seeing right through Long's claim that they belong to the Chamber of Commerce, and the fact that he takes an interest in Long creates complications, one of the few conflicts in the movie. This seems to be a rip off of the much better written British play "Shirley Valentine", which had real wit and a freshness to it that this lacks. Definitely skippable unless like me you are a Shelley Long fan.
I really had little interest in her two friends, both cliched and cold characters, one a recent divorcee and the other a hard-nosed business woman, both manipulated by Long to meet up with her, finding out that the hotel they once stayed at has been condemned (even though Long had just apparently made a reservation. They end up in the hotel run by Ian Zierling who has one of the feel amusing moments, seeing right through Long's claim that they belong to the Chamber of Commerce, and the fact that he takes an interest in Long creates complications, one of the few conflicts in the movie. This seems to be a rip off of the much better written British play "Shirley Valentine", which had real wit and a freshness to it that this lacks. Definitely skippable unless like me you are a Shelley Long fan.
