People either like or hate this film, it seems.
I was intrigued. Here you have 2 cousins encountering each other ... and some beautiful Spanish girls ... in beautiful Red Barcelona. Ted seems to need a rationale for everything including love and sex, although he is assured by cousin and girls that love isn't necessarily necessary.
Fred is a spontaneous young U.S. Navy officer mis-missioned to prepare a Barcelona port call for the 6th Fleet, while resident leftists in Barcelona are ready and eager to take offense at anything he says which they can.
There is tension between them over something Ted still accuses Fred of doing I forget what, but it's a lifelong grudge - when they were kids.
The very political Barcelona situation and crisis revolves around an ant analogy that has to be seen and heard to be fully appreciated.
Meanwhile, the camera periodically cuts away to a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier out in the Mediterranean, patrolling to ensure Middle Sea stability and peace.
Eventually, the hottest girl turns out to be unfaithful, a thief and possible a drug addict, while a hitherto unnoticed girl throws herself at the foot of Fred's hospital bed, desperately attempting to pray him back from death - a very overlooked and significant scene.
The outcome is as droll as the rest of the film and leaves you with a good, uplifted feeling about and hope for life and being an American.
It is a film you will think about for years ... if you like to think.
I was intrigued. Here you have 2 cousins encountering each other ... and some beautiful Spanish girls ... in beautiful Red Barcelona. Ted seems to need a rationale for everything including love and sex, although he is assured by cousin and girls that love isn't necessarily necessary.
Fred is a spontaneous young U.S. Navy officer mis-missioned to prepare a Barcelona port call for the 6th Fleet, while resident leftists in Barcelona are ready and eager to take offense at anything he says which they can.
There is tension between them over something Ted still accuses Fred of doing I forget what, but it's a lifelong grudge - when they were kids.
The very political Barcelona situation and crisis revolves around an ant analogy that has to be seen and heard to be fully appreciated.
Meanwhile, the camera periodically cuts away to a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier out in the Mediterranean, patrolling to ensure Middle Sea stability and peace.
Eventually, the hottest girl turns out to be unfaithful, a thief and possible a drug addict, while a hitherto unnoticed girl throws herself at the foot of Fred's hospital bed, desperately attempting to pray him back from death - a very overlooked and significant scene.
The outcome is as droll as the rest of the film and leaves you with a good, uplifted feeling about and hope for life and being an American.
It is a film you will think about for years ... if you like to think.