Storyline
When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve the vessel. Upon arriving on a small island and realizing that the ship is in rough shape, Martin and his family end up with more than they bargained for as the roguish Captain Ron signs on to sail the boat to Miami. It doesn't take long before Ron's anything-goes antics get the Harveys into plenty of trouble.
Directors
Cast
Roselyn Sánchez, Kurt Russell, Mary Kay Place, Marty Eli Schwartz, Martin Short, J.A. Preston, Tom McGowan, Sunshine Logroño, Dan Butler, Craig Rondell, Benjamin Salisbury, Meadow Sisto, Jorge Luis Ramos, Tanya Soler, Raul Estela, Jainardo Batista, Katherine Franco, Clement Talkington, Paul Anka, Shanti Kahn, John Scott Clough, Katherine Calzada, Diego de la Texera, Janine Okada, Eliseo López, Gustavo Cerezo, Efrain "Chico" Rosario, Jose Ciro, Silvestre Ramos Gonzalez, Antonio Valdes Lazo, Jose Angel Ortiz, Gustavo Rodriguez, Victor Emilio Rodriguez, Ralph Arrieta, James Dudley, David Canal, Edwin Delgado, Carlos Miranda, Gil Baldiris, Rolando D'Lugo
Trailer
Reviews
63
San Francisco Chronicle
It's going to be easy for some to dismiss the new Touchstone Pictures comedy, Captain Ron, as a leaky boatload of predictable gags. But it's what you can't predict that keeps this stupidly amusing seafaring tale afloat, making it surprisingly fun. [18 Sep 1992, p.C3]
60
Empire
A family comedy lacking the double level of humour that make the modern ones so successful. The jokes are obvious but never very far away. Russell puts in a worthy performance as the irrepressible Ron and Martin Short is typically neurotic as the father.
50
Captain Ron is a movie about trapped suburbanites who break out into romantic seas, but it never really leaves suburbia. Its spiritual home is in the shopping mall. Like the Cap'n himself, this movie guzzles up its dreams and ignores the busted engine.
50
The scenery is pretty but the movie never makes one wish to be in it. Mr. Russell, a good, reliable actor, prompts a few smiles as the raffish, impossibly self-assured sailor who is always half tight. Mr. Short and Ms. Place also are attractive in spite of the dim material.
50
Boston Globe
Captain Ron is an inconsequential but inoffensive little comedy dedicated to the proposition that inheriting Clark Gable's yacht can be a real problem. A throwback to the plastic Disney family comedies of the late '50s and early '60s, it's at least trim and shipshape, if never inspired or original. [18 Sep 1992, p.56]
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