The Rosebud Beach Hotel (aka The
Big Lobby/1984/Empire Pictures DVD)
Picture:
C- Sound: C Extras: D Film: D
A lame
attempt to do a film comedy that is not even good enough to make a bad sitcom,
Harry Hurwitz’s The Rosebud Beach Hotel
(aka The Big Lobby/1984) is the
tired story about a young man (Peter Scolari) who meets the girl of his dreams
(Coleen Camp) but has the father (Christopher Lee) of his nightmares and they
will not be getting along anytime soon.
Her father runs and owns the hotel and it has some oddball types living
there.
Hot L Baltimore has nothing to worry about.
The place
needs revived, but it may just implode from all the idiocy. The film sure does and Scolari’s career
stalled until Newhart. Fran Drescher is here years before The Nanny and does her best with what
little she has to work with here, little being the operative word. At least Lee tired something different.
The 1.33
X 1 image is as soft as an old analog transfer can be and is almost an outright
disaster. There is also damage and
scratches on the print occurrently. The
Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono is flat and very aged, down a few generations like the
image. Nothing stands out except for the
sets. A few stills are the only would-be
extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
