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| Blame It On Rio |
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100
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Romance |
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English |
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17/02/1984 |
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Posted on
7/15/2008 12:35:42 AM
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Rajesh
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I don’t think you can write such a erotic subject and then just ‘blame it on Rio’.
The film Blame It On Rio is a porno film at heart. I don’t know what the American society was going through in the 80’s but as a Indian when I watched it. This film would have serious problems with the sensor board. I can guarantee you the film would be chopped of mercilessly if ever the studios try to play this film in the theatres.
As a general rule, I think it's wrong for a married man of forty-seven years to have an affair with his best friend's seventeen year-old daughter. Don't you? And especially if the girl has emotional problems, as is shown in the film. I can imagine a movie being made about the situation, and indeed the right movie might even be sensitive and poignant.
But to make a cynical sitcom out of it is questionable. That's what they've done with "Blame It On Rio." This movie is clearly intended to appeal to the prurient interests of dirty old men of all ages. This film seriously reminds me of the film ‘10’
It's really unsettling to see how casually this movie takes a serious situation. A disturbed girl is using sex to play mind games with a middle-aged man, and the movie get its yuks with slapstick scenes where one guy goes out the window when the other guy comes in the door. What's shocking is how many first-rate talents are associated with this sleaze. The director is Stanley Donen, of "Singin' In the Rain." The man having the affair is Michael Caine, one of my favorite actors. His friend (the father of the girl) is Joseph Bologna. The girl is played by a zaftig model named Michelle Johnson, who is set up as the new Bo Derek.
The plot is the usual silliness: Two families are planning a vacation in Rio, but then Caine has a disagreement with his wife, who decides to go to Club Med instead. What finally happens is that the two fathers and their teenage daughters go to Rio, where Johnson shamelessly seduces Caine with techniques that seem more appropriate to a brazen hussy than to a seventeen year-old kid. The rest of the movie alternates uneasily between the girl's neurotic attempts to manipulate Caine with sex, Caine's real qualms, and wildly inappropriate screwball scenes. Sample: Caine thinks Bologna has found out the secret. He has to listen as Bologna reads from his daughter's diary. The daughter mentions her new lover's great teeth. Caine tries to hide his teeth with his lips while he talks. Funny, sure, but not in a movie where the underlying subject is so potentially serious.
But let me think about the whole plot of the film once again and ask myself this one question. Is the film worth criticizing so much or dos it still have some bonus merits attached to it? Frankly speaking, yes. But I can’t imagine the part of Mathew Hollins being played by anybody else other than Michael Caine. The only reason the film manages to survive otherwise I’m sure it would have turned into a sleazy porn flick and nothing more than that…
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Michael Caine
Joseph Bologna
Valerie Harper
Michelle Johnson
Demi Moore
José Lewgoy
Lupe Gigliotti
Michael Menaugh
Tessy Callado
Ana Lucía Lima
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| Music Composer | | : Kenneth Wannberg |
| Cinematographer | | : Reynaldo Villalobos |
| Art Director | | : Marcos Flaksman |
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