Waste of time

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The content is actually a bit hot: a young couple goes into vacations and each one loves and get intimate alone or together with the same woman… Today, it would be an almost porn movie whereas in the 80s, it's like a spicy enchanted experience: sure the movie is lucky to have a young Darryl but we don't see much of her skin and we recall foremost her soft, sweet attitude! In addition, their vacation happens in the most beautiful place for that, Santorini Island! I went there like us, in the summer and really, blue sky, blue sea, white houses are really like paradise! It's filled with great pop songs of the 80s (Johnny & Mary) and the story has the real flavor of those summer loves that never last. So it's really a great movie, just to get out of a dark, bleak daily life!!

Santorini, a beautiful island paradise with donkey rides to the top and a fun vacation. I made two visits, but never got to spend a summer there. That is reserved for those who are much more well off.So, here we have well off Peter Gallagher (Short Cuts, American Beauty) and his girlfriend Daryl Hannah (Splash, Kill Bill Vol. 2) spending the Summer on Santorini. Is there anything in the world you could imagine that would top that? Why would you even want to? Well, it seems that Michael (Gallagher) isn't satisfied with a hot girl on a beautiful island and wants to add Lina (Valérie Quennessen) to his life. Naturally, Cathy (Hannah) objects, but eventually agrees after becoming friends with Lina. Right I can just imagine the crazy mind that dreamed this up. Every girl would share her man. And, no, there is no hot lesbian sex going on to seal the deal. It's share with no benefits.They move in together and become a loving family. They even get depressed and cut their vacation short by two weeks when Lina disappears. Are these two mental? Yes, we see Darryl in her skin debut as she sunbathes nude, and she has a fantastic wet-t-shirt scene, and there are babes galore on the beach topless and fully nude, and on and on, but face it, if you suggested this to your girl and she looked like Daryl Hannah, she would probably tell you to take a hike.

I'm tempted to call this movie a guilty pleasure, but I don't think there's really that much to feel guilty about. Yes, some of the editing is choppy, and I suspect the lighting could be better in spots, and so forth, but there is a romantic and spiritual magic to this movie for me! I was 19 or 20 when it came out, and I longed very much to have such a sexual adventure. There is romance, sex, history, and even a bit of spiritual questing I'd say in this film. When Michael (Peter Gallagher)turns to Cathy on their first full morning in Santorini and asks, "Don't you feel something?" he is clearly referring not only to Santorini's sparse and rocky beauty, its sense of history, but something perhaps even a bit metaphysical.Valerie Quennessen was lovely -- anyone who'd say she was a "butterface" (as did a previous poster) is a buffoon: "She's quite pretty but her (butter) face." Anyway, I think this movie is great fun and very rewarding despite its technical flaws. It features gorgeous scenery (human and geographic) and an engaging escapist theme. I love the composer's ambient soundscape mixed with early 80's rock.

I saw this movie originally over 20 years ago. I have never forgotten it. If that is a gage of a movie, then I guess it is a "10." But this one certainly has flaws.I don't care about the flaws of this movie, though. I have wanted to go to Greece since seeing this movie 20 years ago. The landscapes and scenery are breathtaking. That alone makes this movie worth seeing.I also liked the sexual adventurousness of the film. Not from a "it makes me horny" perspective but just the openness that the characters have. There are dumb, trite parts to the love story, but when you are basking on the beaches and sun of Greece, who cares?