Product Review

Summer Rental (DVD)

This routine comedy is about a series of misadventures during a family v acation at the beach and stars John Candy (who died of a hea rt attack w hile filming in Mexico in 1994) as John Chester and Karen Austin as his long-suffering wife Sandy. When the family leave for what turns out to b e a pretty decrepit shack on a public beach, Jack eventually locks horns with the owner of this dubious piece of real estate, and their conflic t terminates in a boat race in which Jack and his motley crew are at fir st glance, and even second , no match for the others in the race. In the meantime, there are plenty of skits with Jack dressed as anything from an ample, unint entional likeness of a geisha to the normal tourist dude in a Hawaiian shirt. His wife and daughter tackle their own problems, r elat ed to sex in one way or another, mostly another.