Where the Boys Are '84 Reviews

This cinematic tripe bears as much resemblance to the original film of 1960 as Brian De Palma's miserable SCARFACE bore to the original. The first film made stars of George Hamilton, Connie Francis, Jim Hutton, and Paula Prentiss. The stars of this movie will be lucky if it doesn't drive them out of show business entirely. Jennie (Lisa Hartman), Carol (Lorna Luft), Laurie (Lynn-Holly Johnson), and Sandra (Wendy Schaal) are coeds on their spring break in Fort Lauderdale with fun and games in mind. Jennie meets two men and is wooed by both--Camden (Daniel McDonald), a wimpy musician, and Scott (Russell Todd), a hitchhiking hunk. Meanwhile, Carol's beau has trailed her to Florida, thus putting a crimp in her action. Sandra is a snobby type until she falls for local police officer Tony (Christopher McDonald), and Laurie is the nympho of the group. Four story lines are played against each other, but they really never register. The movie appears to be a feeble attempt to show hijinks by the sea and little else. It would have been better off if the casting were more believable, the acting more honest, the emphasis off the obvious sexuality, and the script destroyed before production began.