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COMMENTS SUMMARY:

A bawdy, playful comedy with likable characters and an intriguing island locale. The witty dialogue and broad physical comedy hold our attention. There is plenty of opportunity for the right comic actors to have a field day with this material. Spencer and Randy are colorful protagonists. They have delightful repartee a la BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. The writers have a blast with their California surf lingo. The villain is ludicrously over the top and perfectly in keeping with the genre. Bobby Blue, the ex-beach blanket movie star turned congressman, is a unique invention. Amid all of the comedy, the details of the villain's plot to rule the world are a bit sketchy until all is revealed at the end. However, the script's sexy, lighthearted tone make it easy to overlook any story problems.

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                     EXCELLENT    GOOD   FAIR   POOR

PREMISE                        X

STORYLINE                         X

CHARACTERIZATION          X

DIALOGUE                 X

STRUCTURE                        X

SETTING                  X

OVERALL WRITING ABILITY    X

PROJECT RECOMMENDATION:        RECOMMEND AS COMEDY FEATURE

SYNOPSIS:

RANDY BLUE and SPENCER BOLLES are a couple of Malibu surf locals. One day, while out on the waves, they see a beautiful girl, LABIA LUSCIOUS, in a tiny dingy, being chased by a huge yacht manned by WEGO, YUGO and IGO, latter day Marx Brothers. Spencer and Randy save her life and cause the yacht to crash into the rocks. Randy brings Luscious home to meet his father and mother, BOBBY and ANNETTE BLUE, ex-1950's beach movie stars. Bobby Blue is now a U.S. Senator. Before dinner, Luscious sprays an atomizer full of "lust gas" into the room. Luscious explains that she works for a small medical school on the Caribbean island of Provincia. Overpowered by Luscious and her lust gas, Senator Blue agrees that Randy and Spencer should go to St. Catherine's medical school.

Randy and Spencer cause havoc on the plane ride over to the island. They are welcomed at the school by the GO Brothers, musical bumpkins who survived the yacht's demise. They meet the school's headmaster DR. SCHMENDRAKE, a sinister German. Back in the U.S.A., Senator Blue receives a call from SENATOR COTTONMOUTH, an evil politician. Cottonmouth warns Blue that if he ever wants his son back alive, he'd better hand over the original film stock from all his old beach blanket films.

Randy and Spencer discover that the campus looks disappointingly unlike the brochure and more like an abandoned veterinarian school, which it is. They meet the school's resident manager, SCAROUCHE, a Jamaican with a refined British accent. That night, Randy and Spencer meet up with CARMEN and INGA, a couple of horny coed's. After Schmendrake's ridiculous first day of orientation, Randy and Spencer begin to suspect that this place is a fraud.

Schmendrake is the inventor of the "lust gas" and works for Senator Cottonmouth. He trains pigs on the side. Spencer, Randy, Inga and Carmen decide that the school is evil and that they better get off the island. Senator Blue flies into Provincia with film stock to get Randy and Spencer off the island. Blue is captured by Schmendrake's thugs. Randy, Spencer, Inga and Carmen set off to escape. While running from Schmendrake's thugs, they meet up with Scarouche. He explains that he is a C.I.A. agent that Schmendrake is an evil scientist. Schmendrake's lust gas requires a special ingredient, XP90, that is only found in certain old film stock - specifically the films of Bobby Blue - and that Schmendrake plans to use the gas to conquer the world. He is financing his scheme through the sale of Gatorsnaps, a snack food made with a mysterious ingredient. Our young crew decide to stop Schmendrake's evil plan, but Scarouche is captured by the singing Go Brothers. Spencer and Randy break into Schmendrake's castle and discover Blue, totally incapacitated by the lust gas. While seeking to escape to get help from the Marines, Spencer is captured by thugs with trained pigs. Randy and the girls regroup and form a plan to invade the castle.

The girls distract the guards while Randy dresses up like a pig and sneaks in through the pig farm. At a huge scientific convention in this castle, SCHMENDRAKE explains to his colleagues that he is planning to release the lust gas on Harvard University, which had thrown him out. The gas causes sex cells to multiply so fast, people will have an insatiable urge for sex. They will literally copulate themselves to death. With Harvard as his example, Washington, and then the world will capitulate to him. His benefactor, Senator Cottonmouth, will be the new President of the United States of Schmendrake.

Randy bursts into the meeting and releases a tube of lust gas before escaping. The gas malfunctions, and all of the doctors turn green, blow up like balloons and float up to the ceiling. Blue explains that he gave Schmendrake Abbott and Costello films for the XP90 extraction instead of his original beach movies. Using their surfboards, the crew escape from the castle. The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES shows up at the island with the Marines and proclaims Provincia a U.S. colony. Senator Cottonmouth is hauled off by the Go Brothers to be fed to the alligators. Randy re-unites with his father, who has gained respect for Randy. Randy and Spencer decide to stay with Inga and Carmen on the island and to continue manufacturing Gatorsnaps.

COMMENTS:

A bawdy, playful comedy with likable characters and an intriguing island locale. Although the storyline is unclear in the beginning, all is explained by the end of the play. Witty dialogue and broad physical comedy hold our attention. There is plenty of opportunity for the right comic actors to have a field day with this material. The script's sexy, lighthearted spirit makes it easy to overlook any story problems.

Mirroring the irreverent tone of a National Lampoon, SURF DOCTORS creates some memorable comic characters. Spencer and Randy are colorful protagonists. they have delightful repartee a la BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE or BIODOME. The writers have a blast with their California surf lingo. The villain is ludicrously over the top and perfectly in keeping with the genre. Bobby Blue, the ex-beach blanket movie star turned congressman, is a unique invention. Luscious, the ultra sexy bombshell, is a fun Jessica Rabbit-esqe parody of the manipulative femme fatal. the script has a hip, sarcastic attitude which is apparent in the witty dialogue. Each character has their own unique comic voice. the writers have an intricate sense of wordplay and rhythm. The incorporation of music and rap into the story keeps the script moving at a fast pace.

The island setting offers up loads of comic and visual possibilities. The writers have fun with the backwards, isolated island culture. It is amusing to see these Malibu boys lost in the tropical rain forest and to use their surfing skills to help them out of sticky situations.

Senator Cottonmouth's place in the entire scheme could be made more clear -- why he has the boys sent down to the island in the first place. The blackmail aspect could be accentuated and made more threatening. It also should be made clear that Schmendrake needs a much larger supply of XP90 for his grandiose scheme.

Despite these minor deficiencies in the story line, SURF DOCTORS is a lot of fun. This is not particularly heady stuff and we can easily accept the scant storyline in the spirit of the script. In a broad comedy like this one, the characters, dialogue and comic situations keep us intrigued. This script has the elements necessary to make a sexy, hip and altogether goofy comedy.