Staten Island Summer

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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.

Nothing to new here, but I did get a few good laughs out of it. There was no PC garbage and teens acted like teens act. Recommend it.

Staten Island Summer is a very generic teen movie. It has a cheesy plot line, a very specific audience that will enjoy it, and some humor inserted into it that some find funny, while others hate it. It is a movie that, like nearly every other teen movie, has a character battling through his late teens. Women, sex, and friendships are all a huge part of the movie. Regardless of all previously mentioned, I still did not find Staten Island Summer to be a bad movie. It had its moments. There were a lot of foreseeable things that you might notice very early on in the movie, but you still have some things that you might not expect. There are a couple of genuinely funny scenes, although a couple of them own a rather blunt taste of humor that at least did not make me really laugh. For fans of teen movies, Staten Island Summer is a good choice, although there are many better. It is best described as a rather lame and not as funny version of American Pie, but some might really enjoy the humor - and some might actually find the plot to be good.

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.

Another R rated comedy about teens that isn't over the top raunchy like American Pie and Super Bad. This film was more of a week in 2 friends lives that are moving on to college. Nothing stood out other then the solid cast. Pretty straight forward storytelling.

Very dumb story,cast was good but bad script,not good enough comedy for comedy genre movie.

And make a horrible clone! Horrible writing, pointless scenes and just plain plagiarism. Couple kids that look like Michael Cera And Jona Hill: check. Friends are having beef because one is going of to college and the other is a dumbass: check. A lot party scenes that make no sense: check. Female love interest that appear unreachable but at the end somehow they get: check. Friends are desperate virgins: check. Couple of looney cops like Bill Hader and Seth Rogen: check. The only saving grace is Fred Armisen, the character he plays is truly naturally funny. Should have called it "trying so hard to be super bad" the movie. Who knew Colin Jost was such a hack writer.

Not knowing anything about this film or evan hearing about it when i was asked to review this, as you could guess i was not optermistic......but happy to say i was wrong as this film was absolutely amazing! This film has everything you could ask for great one liners funny moments great story of a bunch of friends and there journey to take the next step. It has the American pie feel because they just want to get laid and throw a party but it stands alone in the way they go about it, all of them are life guards in a swimming club and working for a dumb annoying boss who wants to wreck there summer party plans to which they must come up with ways to beat him. The creepy guy on the train from euro trip is the maintenance worker who in this film is a cross between inspector clouseau and johnny knoxville from jackass is perfect. This has the ability to become a cult classic a great funny heart warming story that is a must watch

Having just gotten some very bad news from the doctors yesterday, I've been in a deep depression. I've been looking for movies to help bring me out of it. There's an awful lot of movies out there nowadays that are try-hards. Long gone are the days of Porky's and Meatballs. Once in awhile, you can find a great movie like Wet Hot American Summer, which was a blessing because they went on to have 2 small Seasons after the movie. But most movies are things like American Pie that really aren't that funny and then they go on to have a ton of sequels that just get less funny as you go. So when I saw Staten Island Summer, I very nearly flicked past it until I saw that it had Saturday Night Live alumni on it. Now I'm not familiar with any of the young actors, but there was one that played the maintenance man in this movie who I always thought was funny on SNL, so I gave it a chance. There was some spots what kind of dragged but every time it started to drag, they would drop in things like actors from The Sopranos or police officers that help them get booze because they're underage and it would just make me break out laughing! This movie is definitely what the doctor ordered! Our main protagonist is the young man who's graduating high school and going on to college at Harvard, while his best friend is staying home with his parents. These two have worked as lifeguards at this really beautiful pool as soon as they were old enough to work and they've been swimming there all of their lives! So this is the last hurrah, and all of the lifeguards collectively being the same age one of the other ones is about to join the Navy, they decide that that closing weekend they were going to have a staff party. However the guy who is the manager is just a despicable human being just awful sexually harassing the guests to the pool, putting a out of order sign on a bathroom stall so he can have his own personal shall we say make out space for only himself. And he is taken the keys to the entire pool and they have to get those keys in order to have the party. So I'm not going to give you any spoilers because I really want you to watch this movie but I'm going to get into the positives and negatives. The positives are definitely the acting. Everybody was very believable. It was thoroughly enjoyable the actors were very well cast! The script was GREAT! Other than a couple spots where things kind of slowed down, it was VERY well written, and I think most people who grew up in the 80's & 90's could identify with this at least in part! Camera work was great, I could find no flaws! For the negatives, I really can't say, other than a couple slow spots, because it was so thoroughly enjoyable that I didn't see any other negatives! OOOH! I SHOULD mention, this ISN'T family friendly, even though there ARE kids in it! There's A LOT of dirty jokes, sexual situations, and at least 1 topless female that I remember! So, if you are looking for something to make you laugh, forget your troubles, and the kids aren't around, THIS is the movie for you!!!