Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in
Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago fireman injured in the line of duty, who uses his disability money to open up a run-down Caribbean resort. Jack eagerly awaits the planeload of tourists who will be his first patrons. This group of low-rent jackanapes include Barry Nye (
Rick Moranis) and Barry Steinberg (
Eugene Levy), a couple of horny geek bachelors; Phillipa Lloyd (
Twiggy) and Terry Hamlin (
Joanna Cassidy) as a couple of gals on the make; and Linda White (
Andrea Martin), as a bossy American tourist. While the tourists shindig around Jack's ramshackle resort, a revolution is brewing on the island headed by revolutionary Ernest Reed (
Jimmy Cliff). Trying to prevent the revolutionary upheaval is the dissipated British governor-general of the island, Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes (
Peter O'Toole), and the pompous Prime Minister Solomon Gundy (
Adolph Caesar). ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide