ajhswimmr
I watched this movie because it had so many cast members from snl, a great comedy show, and was written by an snl member. It was not a very good movie, I only stuck around because I liked seeing the actors. I'm 14 so I'm a bit on the young side of the target audience, but I know I wouldn't have enjoyed it more if I were older. It's super cliché and even more predictable. But if you don't have anything to do, and you want to see snl actors Bobby Moynihan, Fred Armisten, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, Mike O'Brien, and Colin Jost be silly together outside of late night television, then watch it. It's a good movie for when you're bored or need I waste time.
bkoganbing
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.
The Couchpotatoes
Well there is not much to write about Staten Island Summer. Thirty years ago I might have liked it but now I'm not a teenager anymore, not even close, so this movie is just not for me. It's not the worst thing I ever saw, it's just an average movie about kids wanting to get late for the first time and trying to throw a party to get some actions there. We've seen it all before, and even better. For teenagers this might be a good movie, because they might recognize themselves in it, but for me it doesn't do much. I thought it would be a comedy but honestly if I said I laughed twice during the entire movie I would be lying. Well, like I already said, it's not the worst thing I ever saw, but I certainly won't watch it again.
Maureen Donohue
I have lived on Staten Island for over 40 years and am sick of Staten Island being depicted in this way. I couldn't even watch more than the first 15 minutes before turning it off. First of all the pool is supposed to be in Great Kills at their club which is expensive and maybe filled with some dunces but not the type of dunces depicted. That area is high income white and those people would not like this stereo type which does fit a great number of Staten Islanders and New Jersey types. The types depicted are lower income blue collar workers and even though Great Kills has some of the latter the club prides itself on being above all that and is much too expensive for me or my family to have ever attended. Second what is funny about a bunch of clueless teens spending their aimless summers trying to get laid and have fun preening muscles at idiot girls and cannon balling into the pool in totally irresponsible fashion. (Even at our city pool which is lovely this behavior is not tolerated.) It's all been done before and better. The days of Animal House being amusing are over. There are tons of other types both here and in New Jersey (a state of which I as a New Yorker do not have a special fondness) who have complex intelligent lives. If this was even slightly amusing I might have continue to watch but other than showing that some of the neighborhoods and beach are often overlooked in their beauty I was completely repelled. I live on the opposite shore depicted in the film (North Shore) but I am sure that those on the South Shore might also not find this film to their taste.
AD
