It even has with its own Vacation-style Christie Brinkley moment. It’s like National Lampoon’s Caribbean Vacation, but in a boat instead of a station wagon. A siren beckons Martin to join her, or so he thinks. Will Martin fire Captain Ron? Or will Martin learn to embrace “the Captain Ron way”? That’s the one, thin dramatic thread that strings this story along. Ron takes a “Zen” approach to life and ship-piloting, which a threatened Martin tries to play off as incompetence. Ron Rico is everything the uptight, hemmed-in Martin wishes he could be: always relaxed and totally free. Captain Ron videotapes Martin’s wife from behind.Ĭaptain Ron has almost no drama, but what conflict there is arises between Martin and his skipper. Martin’s son Ben, slugging a beer Captain Ron boogies with mother and daughter. He salsa dances with Martin’s trampy teenage daughter Caroline (Meadow Sisto, sister of Jeremy Sisto) and not-discreetly-at-all videotapes Martin’s shapely wife Katherine (Mary Kay Place) bending over. He drinks beers with Martin’s middle school age son Ben (played by Benjamin Salisbury…like Martin, they didn’t even bother changing the character’s name from the actor’s), and gambles with him. Kurt Russell’s Captain Ron is more or less a send-up of his famous one-eyed Escape from New York character Snake Plissken, but removed of any heroic qualities. Kurt Russell, who displays remarkable natural comedy chops, tears into Captain Ron.
Kurt Russell, looking especially and hilariously foolish as Captain Ron Some critics at the time of the film’s release were upset that leading man Russell was cast in the screwball character role, while comic whiz Short (fresh off playing a flamboyant wedding planner in smash hit Father of the Bride) was given the straight man role. This shouldn’t be surprising given the film’s title, but Kurt Russell owns this movie. In comes Captain Ron Rico (Kurt Russell), a one-eyed salty dog mariner with loose morals and shaky boat captaining skills. Martin needs to pilot Wanderer to Miami so he can sell it to a used yacht dealer (played, oddly, by 60’s crooner Paul Anka with a Trump-esque orange tan). Then, BOOM! Martin inherits a dilapidated sailboat named Wanderer from a crazy dead uncle with a wandering soul, and within what seems like seconds the whole Harvey family is suddenly in the the Caribbean. That whole set-up lasts approximately three screen minutes, over opening credits. One good aspect of Captain Ron is that it doesn’t waste time getting to the real story. Why is he always the butt of other people’s thoughtlessness? If only there was a way for him to be the captain of his own destiny… Badly Photoshopped photo of Martin as a child at the ship’s helm
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The world is full of a-holes, or at least it seems that way to Martin. Then Martin orders a cup of coffee, only to have some other a-hole with a cold sneeze into it. This is established early on, when he’s rushing to work in downtown Chicago and gets trapped in a revolving door when the a-hole right in front of him decides to strike up a conversation before exiting, blocking Martin inside. He has a pretty good middle-management job. He doesn’t have anything to complain about, really.
The movie’s story starts like this: Martin Harvey (Martin Short) is frustrated with his life. Martin, trapped in his big city daily grind Somehow the idea of Captain Ron marinated in my brain for over two decades, until one fateful day, totally out of the blue, I was overtaken by a strange desire to watch it. So I didn’t end up going to see it (few did it was a huge flop).īut something about it spoke to me. It didn’t seem like a movie my parents would enjoy. On the other hand, it just looked… weird. On one hand, it seemed like just another of those warm-hearted, family-oriented movies that the studios shit out or at least used to. I remember seeing ads for Captain Ron as an 11 year old. I created this drink on the fly, just for the movie, using whatever beverages I had on hand at the moment.ġ part Trader Joe’s orange-peach-mango juice
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