Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)

User Rating:

2.8/10   

Director:

George Mendeluk

Writers:

Janis Allen (characters)
Len Blum (characters)

Release Date:

9 January 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Rudy struck out two summers in a row... this will be his year to score!

Plot:

The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.

Plot Keywords:

Virginity | Nerd | Ghost | Bully | Nudity

Cast

Sally Kellerman	...	Roxy Dujour
Patrick Dempsey	...	Rudy
Al Waxman	...	Peter
Isabelle Mejias	...	Wendy
Shannon Tweed	...	The Love Goddess
Peter Snider	...	Tom
Jan Taylor	...	Rita
Hudson Bishop	...	Hillary
Mark Blutman	...	Andy
Justine Campbell	...	Val
Peter Saecks	...	Tim
Caroline Arnold	...	Lee
Pamela Collyer	...	Karen
Colleen Passard	...	Cheryl (as Colleen Karney)
Willye Fleming	...	Guardman

Also Known As:

Meatballs III - Académie de vacances (Canada: French title) (video title)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Norway:16 | Iceland:12 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PG (rental video rating) | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Canada

Company:

Dalco

Trivia:

Acting debut of future television hostess Caroline Rhea. She can be seen in an uncredited role as 'Beach Girl #4 playing beach volleyball in a red bikini.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Saturday Night Live: The Best of David Spade (2005) (TV)

Sophomoric in a good way

I can't believe the myriad of negative comments and reviews I've seen for "Meatballs III". It, like most other Canadian summer-camp movies, are meant to provide cheap laughs in a stupid way and weren't really made for people to analyze the plot, character development, etc. If you don't like sophomoric humor, then you should have known better than to watch it in the first place. Not everybody likes the trite, dry, boring humor of typical big-production films. Movies like "Meatballs III" provide relief from such ennui.

I remember seeing "Meatballs III" on USA back around 1990, and have loved it since, especially because back then I was still a teenager and this is the kind of movie that a teenage boy would probably like. I remember while watching it my mom came downstairs and told me to turn off "that garbage", and I liked it even more.

On a side note, there was an episode of SNL (when Jeff Goldblum hosted) in 1993 where David Spade, as Karl the video store clerk, recommends "Meatballs III" to Rob Schneider. Of course I had to laugh at that.