What a waste of my time!!!

good back-story, and good acting

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Staten Island Summer finds recent high school graduates Graham Phillips and Zack Pearlman are on a quest that summer. Both are lifeguards at the Great Kills Beach Club there and both want to get themselves laid before they leave for college and whatever other future they might have. For Phillips it's the best kind of future, it's Harvard. But first pleasure before business.They also want to have one big blowout of a party at the club, but their boss Michael Patrick O'Brien is determined not to have one there. The kids and most of the adults think O'Brien is an idiot, still he's the boss.Nothing to out of the ordinary for the usual teen sex comedy. In fact the film is shot in Staten Island and at the Great Kills Beach Club. When you come right down to it, it's one long commercial for the club.

Just another silly teenage sex and drug movie. Enough SNL stars to bring some humor to it. And thank god for leaving Seth Rogan out of it. It was worth a few laughs.

This is a coming of age story for the lifeguards at the Great Kills Swim Club on Staten Island. The crew try to find true love and sex during the last day of summer bash before Danny (Graham Phillips) goes off to Harvard. Krystal Manicucci (Ashley Greene) daughter of local mafia leader (Vincent Pastore) shows up with over-the-top swagger as she becomes the focus of Danny's attention, a woman who was his former babysitter.The lifeguards include a diverse cast of characters, that would generally be good enough for any teen sex comedy. The downfall of the film was that the actors couldn't pull it off. There were good scenes, but no great scenes. Guide: F-bomb. Brief sex and nudity.

To paraphrase another reviewer and a line from the movie's opening narration, it's as if Caddyshack and Superbad had a love child. A very funny love child...As you watch this movie, it's easy to pick out influences from other flicks. Jonah Hill type? Check. Michael Cera type? Check, but let's go with black hair so it's not obvious. And so it goes, even including a mumbling grounds-keeper a la Caddyshack. Mind you, these are not necessarily bad things. Considering I laughed myself silly quite a few times, I won't complain. This movie was a refreshing change from the standard fare of late. It's just a silly comedy with barely enough plot to move from scene to scene. It's not a dreary underdog saga set in a dystopian future. It's not another overwrought superhero movie with a 45 minute CGI battle scene to fill up the running time once the creators ran out of ideas. And most thankfully, it's not an angst-filled critique of relationships. It's just a funny story. I wish there were more movies like this one. The many supporting characters were great fun. Kate Walsh and Jim Gaffigan played their parent roles to deadpan perfection. The kid from Bad Grandpa played a great straight man (straight kid?) to the totally inappropriate influences of Fred Armisen. Don't expect too much, but do sit back and enjoy a few belly laughs. And be thankful not everybody in Hollywood has given up on making light-hearted comedies.