Blame It on Rio (1984)

Michael Caine and Joseph Bologna may give decent enough performances as best friends on a spree in Rio, but the romance that develops between Caine and Bologna's teenage daughter (Michelle Johnson) is just too leery for comfort. The holiday atmosphere is well evoked, but the bad taste from director Stanley Donen, who made such stylish nonsense as On the Town and Charade, is an unpleasant surprise, while, for Caine, this misfiring comedy was one of a series of disasters during the 1980s.