HONEYMOON ACADEMY. 1990. Kim Cattrall, Robert Hays, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jonathan Banks, Christopher Lee, Doris Roberts, Gordon Jump. Director: Gene Quintano.

HONEYMOON ACADEMY

   What do you do when you want to do Romancing the Stone and Kathleen Turner runs too high for your budget? Kim Cattrall is as exact a look-alike as you can get, without quite the same underlying seductiveness. A little too wholesome. I guess for underlying seductiveness you pay extra.

   Robert Hays is the man she marries. Unknown to him, his new bride is actually a member of a super secret government agency, a courier service of the State Department, so to speak.

   They do all kinds of deliveries: blackmail, ransom, that kind of thing. They meet, she quits, and on their honeymoon she is asked to perform one last, small task.

   We’ve read or seen that before, haven’t we? In this case: a small matter of counterfeit plates. There are a few funny scenes, but most of them border on the silly.

   But then, I laugh at almost anything.

— Reprinted from Mystery*File 33, Sept 1991 (slightly revised).



[UPDATE] 01-15-09. Speaking of Kim Cattrall, as I was at the beginning of this review, I suppose some of you saw her in that HBO series she was recently in. I haven’t had the opportunity, I regret to say. What I have found, though, is a trailer for Honeymoon Academy, which you can access for yourself by following this link.

   After watching these small snapshots and snippets of the film, I still think she looks like Kathleen Turner. And I also think my review covers everything else you’ll see in these previews. Certainly nothing less.