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Lina has come to santorini to escape jealousy and confinement She thinks Michael is cute but has no interest in breaking up the Ken-and-Barbie relationship she sees giggling on-the balcony 50 yards from her own. Bur wait...this is Santorini, island of passion. Lina's willing to try a sub-let arrangement on Michael's taut brown body, and lo and behold, Miss Wonderbread, Cathy, finds the whole thing kinky enough to give it a whirl. They all fall in love with the concept and move in together...
...DeLuise again, less lucky than he is in The Secret of NIMH). His part is so badly written that he never develops either menace or humor. The rest of the movie talks dirty in a witless way, yet always looks cute and sanitized. In its roundheeled way it wants to please everyone...
Director Arthur Hiller wanted a cute film. He can't resist focusing his camera on the mischievous faces of the kids at the dinner table, or the birthday cake that goes sailing into Pacino's face. The theme song emphasizes the point with its ridiculous refrain: "Comin' home to you is like comin' home to milk and cookies...
...help but feel somewhat cheated at the end, as if coming down from an artificial high. For an adventure, there is very little plot and not much character development. Like Spislberg's first blockbuster, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the story is strung along by special effects and cute tricks. The scenes designed to choice you up accomplish their end because the kid is so charming, not because you really care about what happens...
...like the books. You do not like the instructor. You do not like anybody, and you are filled with existential angst. You never signed up for "Religion and Politics in Ukraine Since 1917" in the first place; why are you there? Does man have free will? What is the cute girl across the hall taking? Law and Pyschology"--why does it draw you closer, entice you? It is irresistable...