John Cusack is supposed to spend his vacation with the family of his girlfriend, Wendy Gazelle, but for various reasons he misses them. While her father, Monty Markham, and mother, Shelley Fabares, talk about how its all for the best, Miss Gazelle sulks on the airplane, on the way to an unnamed Caribbean island -- clearly Jamaica judging by the people, clearly Ixtapa judging by the buildings and landscape. Cusack trails Miss Gazelle like a hunter, running into a series of eccentrics, including loony sailboat master Robert Loggia, Jerry and Ben Stiller, and other amiable maniacs.
It's clearly PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES for the teenage audience, and it's all done most amiably in terms of the performance, but there's something mildly annoying about its episodic nature. I'm clearly not its intended audience, and it has a nostalgic value for the days for people who were teenagers when it came out, but there's little here to make it worth a second viewing.
It's clearly PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES for the teenage audience, and it's all done most amiably in terms of the performance, but there's something mildly annoying about its episodic nature. I'm clearly not its intended audience, and it has a nostalgic value for the days for people who were teenagers when it came out, but there's little here to make it worth a second viewing.