Movies

Goin' Coconuts (1978) The Donny and Marie Osmond movie. I never thought anything would make me want Donny and Marie to sing more, but the rest of this movie did. Only a few musical numbers, but they are the high point of a story that I think Donny and Marie wrote themselves, and simply ad-libbed without a script - it's that poor. Herb Adelman is Sid the Manager - I've seen him make some pretty bad material look good, but this was too much even for him. Directed by Howard Morris, one of the pioneering TV comedians of Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, and familiar TV voice and face for decades thereafter - and he shouldn't have done it. When the kids are performing, they are great, and they do some pretty challenging things without faking it - Donny did know all the lyrics to Hawaiian War Chant, and the dance too. When they are trying to keep the villains from getting the necklace that's the key to mystery, it's awful. What the hell did I expect? 3/10