The movie tries to inject emotion by playing popular pop songs on the soundtrack, but it doesn't work.
As for Chevy Chase, he doesn't even TRY to be funny. He seems to have a contempt for what he is surrounded by, making his character very unlikable. I agree with the Leonard Maltin movie guide that Allen seems to be phoning it in. This poor writing of the characters may explain the awful performances from the adult members of the cast. The bad guy of the movie doesn't appear until the last 15 minutes of the movie, leaving no time to develop him. The rest of the characters are poorly written as well.
We have four youths on the team Allen is leading, and we learn next to nothing about them. What went wrong with this movie? The main reasons the movie is a stinker can be traced to the script. With movies like this (a box office flop, partly due to the fact it was not screened for critics, a sign audiences know usually means a stinker), it's no wonder that Revolution Studios closed its doors a year later. I have seen a number of movies from Revolution Studios, and with almost all of them I have found them to be souless "product" - movies put together with ingredients that seemed to guarantee a big hit, but lacking soul.
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