Fantastic!

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This movie begins with a man named "Martin Harvey" (Martin Short) and his wife "Katherine Harvey" (Mary Kay Place) inheriting a sail boat once owned by Clark Gable. The only problem is that they have to sail it from a small island in the Caribbean called Pomme de Terre to a port in Miami to have it surveyed in order to sell. However, once they get there they find that the boat is in great disrepair and unable to sail it themselves they hire a local sailor named "Captain Ron" (Kurt Russell) to help them out. What they don't realize is that Captain Ron is a complete idiot and is liable to get them all killed before they ever get to Miami. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that a friend recommended this movie to me many years ago and upon eventually watching it I found it to be as good as he said it was. I especially liked the acting of Kurt Russell who was absolutely hilarious. In any case, those who are looking for a good light-hearted comedy might want to check this one out and I have rated it accordingly. Above average.

Captain Ron deserves its low rating because it's a pretty rubbish film.I happened to watch it only because a couple of people had mentioned it as a guilty pleasure on the Once Bitten boards.The only thing I liked was Mary Kay Place's acting as she came across as very natural and comfortable in her own skin, making her easy to watch.Martin Short inherits a run down boat and takes a trip - I can't remember the destination. He hires Ron to captain the boat and various disasters ensure as Ron continually gets lost and the boat falls apart.Captain Ron is an antagonistic character that the father (Short) begins to despise but the rest of the family slowly come to love. It is very much What About Bob on a boat but far less convincing and much less entertaining.I fell asleep after about an hour and feel no need to finish the film.

A family in Chicago inherits a yacht, 'The Wanderer', formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of St. Pomme de Terre, to Miami. They sail with the assistance of Captain Ron and their little holiday turns into more than they bargained for....This is one of those films that I always wanted to see as a teenager. It was never released theatrically here, and I believe my rental store only ever had one copy, so I had to wait over twenty years for the pleasure.and it's so not the film I thought it was. Russell is great as the titular character, all Plissken and Gabriel Cash, whenever he is on the screen, the film is hilarious, it's just the family have no dynamic, and spend the majority of the film moaning and looking miserable.I know CR is supposed to vex Martin Short, but he whines from the moment his character is introduced.The locations are wonderful, and it goes along at a fast pace, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would, maybe I left it a little too late.and I was really surprised by the nudity and foul language. I'm no prude, but it really threw me.Shame the film didn't.

Best Movie Ever! Captain Ron is my hero. I love Captain Ron, he would be my best friend if i knew him. I first met him in my aunts trailer in Florida when i was 10 years old and I rented Captain Ron and Jumanji. He is just the greatest captain and if I was a captain I would be just like captain ron. Captain ron goes to the coolest places and i have the DVD of captain ron but when i first saw captain ron it was on a VHS because there were no dvds. When i went to an island on vacation i found a dedication to captain ron and i told the man whos shrine it was that i was looking for the captain ron soundtrack and the man was like oo there's a captain ron soundtrack? and i was like i don't know but i want there to be.