Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

ted_isted Just like a boy and his dog a story of a boy and his car!. This is one of the most underrated movies ever. People are so brainwashed and dumbed down so much that they have no idea what is good or bad unless someone on TV in a suit who is supposedly trendy tells them if something is good or bad! This is why we no longer have good movies or shows and also why music is destroyed. And it is also why we are loosing our free country to rich banker fascists. I hope that one day people wake up and realize that they are the very zombies that they watch on TV, And then finally realize that the trendy guy on TV in the suit is a douche and has horrible taste. Until this day life is going to continue to be very very dull.

happipuppi13 One thing I really like from the entertainment world (besides music) is movies that are not "perfect". If you read my other reviews here you'll see that I have some off the wall celluloid favorites.Corvette Summer is certainly one of them. Just two weeks ago a found a near mint copy in the original early80s box it came in. I only had seen it twice before. Once on network TV and again on local TV late night. I liked it well enough but the first time I was to young to "get it" and the second time the print shown was scratchy & muffled. With my "like new" copy,I fully see how good this movie is. No,it's not up there with box-office giants but it's a fun film with,believe it or not,a good message at the end of it. In watching Hammil's performance as an auto-obsessed youth,I think he completely threw himself into this role. His character is so much like that,that he has even not had time for girls in his life! Demonstrated by his shyness from Annie Pott's sexual advances to him.Annie Potts definitely is a fire-cracker in this film. She's funny,touching and even a little heart-breaking in her role. It's no wonder she went on to bigger things like "Designing Women". I disagree that she completely steals this movie from Mark though. The underlying message is the revelation near the end,that almost relates to today's world. The shop teacher Mr. McGrath is an underpaid educator who basically takes advantage of his prize pupil and has the car stolen (like many others most likely) to give his family the things a teacher's salary cannot. Hammil's reaction in discovering the truth about the man he so admired,is just as real as the way a lot of us felt when we learned the world isn't "perfect". Overall,the movie is great but I just didn't buy Hammil's sudden change into the egotistical jerk he became almost overnight,after forced into the shady business. (Unless his character was just trying to put on an act to fool the bad guys.) Also,when trying to escape from the garage,his character hides in a large oil drum that's full. Now,how would he get into that thing with all that stuff stacked on top of it? Does he have that keen a sense of balance? Of course,that's not really important,the main thing is it's a fun movie to watch and while not perfect,I feel the fact of Mr. McGrath's reluctant dishonesty,makes this a film with at least some grasp of reality. Without that plot point,it actually would just be a silly movie about a teen who's car is stolen and has crazy adventures in finding it. Along the way,losing his virginity. In other words,just another mindless teen flick. 9 stars out of 10,just one off for Mark's very temporary bad guy.

KDWms Less than a dozen comments, none in the past couple of months: meets my criteria for throwing in my two cents... I found this to be an okay movie: not dreadful; but not great, either. I'm not a car fanatic, so, I suppose that THAT decreases one's rating right there. Mark Hamill's physique also failed to convince me that, as the film asks us to believe, he is a just-graduated high schooler. I did the math and concluded that, at the time, he was at least 26! Otherwise, it's fairly interest-holding and inoffensive. The premise is that the auto-body-class's project was the restoration of a Sting Ray, which gets stolen. Hamill's passion is to recover it. Eventually he tracks down the thieves, and, along the way, he develops a relationship with a gal who attempts a number of careers, including the world's oldest profession. Also central to the storyline is Hamill's teacher, who he looks up to. All in all, it's an okay expenditure of time and/or (a reasonable amount of) money.

spynine Let's face it. Perhaps you have been initiated to Corvette Summer as a chunk of 70's "cheese," or a must-see flick for Star Wars fans.Well, despite it's rep, it's a fun, watchable film with decent acting, and a ton of energy and heart. Unlike teen oriented films of today, it is not mean-spirited, gross, or dumb. CS is sweet without being lame.Mark Hamill get this film thrown at him as if it was some kiss of death career killer. But watch Corvette Summer, and you'll see why it just cements his superstar 70's status. (Yes, Corvette Summer, and the previous year's Star Wars didn't translate to a serious career outside Lucasfilm in the 80's, but it's a success on its own.)Hamill rips up the screen in a role that combines the naive and hotheaded aspects of Luke Skywalker - but set in 1970's LA and Vegas.Hamill, as Kenny, has a total commitment to recovering the hot car, and it's fun to watch him sleuth it out with no regard to his comfort or safety. All the while during this adventure, he is falling (against his will) in love with an aspiring call girl -- who's incredible van he camps out in. Love, he finds out, can apply to women as well as tricked-out left-hand drive Stingrays with Gabriel shocks and racecar height spoilers.Favorite scenes: Kenny tossing a tray of full Cokes at a squad car, and beating down Kootz, who lost the Corvette to thieves. "I don't want no Cokes! Who said I was thirsty!?!" Screams Kenny, in a shrill, anti-product placement rage-against-the-cola war-cry. Kenny, hitching a ride from a gang of Lowriders with hydraulic lifters - at 20 miles per hour on the highway. He decides he can walk faster than that.This movie would never get made today, that that's too bad. It rocks.