His Martin Harvey is an everyman character who just wants to sail the boat to Miami. Known for being the over-the-top part of a comedy act, Short gets to play it straight, which is an incredible performance by the comic. Martin Short plays the perfect straight man to Russell’s absurdity. Playing against type and building a unique persona that is unlike anything done in his past, Russell makes the audience love Captain Ron, despite the fact he is the worst captain anyone could ever hire. Not only does Kurt Russell transform into this slacker perfectly, but he is also genuinely funny in every scene. The audience doesn’t expect someone with Russell’s past to be able to pull off the beach bum look.

Kurt Russell is well known for his action hero past, but his work as Captain Ron is something unlike anything he has done before or since. Confronted by pirates and with Captain Ron injured, it’s up to the Harvey family to make the boat function on sail power alone or else they are going to die. Martin despises Captain Ron, and for everything that goes wrong with the journey, Martin blames the affable skipper. As the journey begins, skepticism gives way to downright hatred. This laid-back beach bum does not instill confidence in Martin. To make matters worse, the boat skipper hired to help the Harvey family navigate to Miami, is Captain Ron. On arrival, the memories of an elegant yacht, give way to a trashy boat that is barely above the water line. One day while he is navigating the elevator at the office, he learns that his uncle has died, and bequeathed his yacht Wanderer to Martin.Įxcited from his childhood memories sailing with his uncle, Martin convinces his wife Katherine and two kids Caroline and Ben to fly down to a remote island, San Pomme de Terre (what an awesome name for an island) and sail the boat to Miami and sell it for a profit. Martin Harvey lives a hectic life in an unfulfilling job in Chicago. This Caribbean voyage will be impossible to forget. It’s cold outside where I am, and what better way to shake off the winter blues, then by setting sail with Martin Short and Kurt Russell in Captain Ron.

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