Thu 15 Jan 2009
Archived Movie Review: HONEYMOON ACADEMY (1990).
Posted by Steve under Action Adventure movies , Reviews[4] Comments
HONEYMOON ACADEMY. 1990. Kim Cattrall, Robert Hays, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jonathan Banks, Christopher Lee, Doris Roberts, Gordon Jump. Director: Gene Quintano.
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.
[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.
January 16th, 2009 at 5:27 am
I thought Kim Cattrall was very attractive in the Oliver Stone-produced miniseries, Wild Palms.
January 16th, 2009 at 8:41 am
There was a long period of time while I was still teaching that I did not watch network TV, nor was I very much aware of what was on.
Which is a long lead-in to my confession that your mention of Wild Palms rang no bells with me.
So I looked it up on IMDB. One person leaving a comment described it thusly:
“It’s like classic Film Noir crossed with cyber-speak, doused with a fifth of Single Malt Scotch and set on fire.”
Allowing for a certain amount of exaggeration, it sounds as though it was a series I should try to get caught up with.
Thanks, Juri!
— Steve
January 16th, 2009 at 8:51 am
I remember it being a pretty imaginative and intriguing thriller with a very convoluted plot, somewhat Twin Peaks/Philip K. Dick -influenced. The ending wasn’t as good as the first part. It’s almost 20 years since I saw it, though. Don’t know what I’d think of it now. It was released in VHS at the time, but maybe it’s not on DVD.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I’ve already looked into it. Sellers on Amazon have copies for sale on DVD here in the US from $12.99 and up. For a two-disk set, that’s not a bad price.