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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie never really comes together, and I think the fault for that begins with Williams. When the star of a movie seems desperate enough to depend on one-liners, can the rest of the cast be blamed for losing confidence in the script?
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyIt's very easy to make it sound funnier than it ever is. Like ''Caddyshack'' and ''National Lampoon's Vacation,'' which Mr. Ramis also directed, and like ''Animal House'' and ''Ghostbusters,'' which he also wrote in part, Club Paradise is full of funny ideas that are never adequately developed. The best it can offer are successful one-liners....The movie is painless, and everybody associated with it is good company, but considering the obvious effort and the expense that went into it, the result should have been much, much better.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThe movie is a succession of shticks--which, when they succeed, are very funny. Unfortunately, not all of them succeed.
- 50Chicago TribuneSid SmithChicago TribuneSid SmithThroughout, Williams seems hampered, hand-tied and almost mind-controlled, as if afraid of letting his hyperkinetic style take off. That`s too bad, because without it, Club Paradise is amiable, amusing and effortless, words that are good news when the subject is bittersweet comedy and disaster when the intention was clearly slapstick.
- 50Miami HeraldMiami HeraldNext to Club Paradise, Caddyshack looks like comic art. [11 July 1986, p.D1]
- 42Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe unchanneled energy of Robin Williams can't redeem this messy yarn.
- 40Williams can be a terrific actor/comedian, but the spark isn’t there. Somehow, Murray might have come up with cleverer ways of getting back at complaining guests (Andrea Martin, Steven Kampmann), nerdy, sex-crazed weaklings (Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy, respectively) and the other expected amalgam of folks.
- 40Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrIt doesn't display an ounce of planning or simple craftsmanship (the Jamaican locations are photographed to look like the banks of Lake Calumet), but with a cast like that, it can't help but have its moments.
- 30Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonLos Angeles TimesSheila BensonA frenetically unfunny and charmless movie.