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By Andrea Beach
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Forgettable, crude comedy has lots of sexual innuendo.
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Summer's Last Resort
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What's the Story?
SUMMER'S LAST RESORT is about how Summer Martin (Violet McGraw) tries to break up her mother Milly's (Sophia Bush) relationship with the vice principal of her school, Glenn Winters (Jerry O'Connell). Glenn takes Summer, Milly, and Summer's younger brother, Grayson (Dawian van der Westhuizen), to a five-star tropical resort. Summer can't stand Glenn, and thinks he's all wrong for her free-spirited mother. So she and Glenn's daughter, Sadie (Clara Alexandrova), team up to try to ruin Glenn's plan to propose to Milly. But as Summer gets to know Glenn, and as romance starts to bloom for her too, she starts to understand that underneath the annoying goofball who is trying way too hard is a kind and caring person who only wants to make everyone happy. When the plan works and Milly breaks up with Glenn, Milly goes on a bender with Captain Otto (Tim Rozon), the sex-crazed recreation instructor at the resort. Can Summer and Glenn work together to find Milly and save her from Otto's clutches? And can they finally be a united, happy family?
Is It Any Good?
This crude comedy tries way too hard to generate laughs using stereotypes and sexual innuendo to keep audiences watching. Summer's Last Resort will appeal to a lot of teens for exactly those reasons: the epic farting, the close-ups of a man's bulge through tight shorts, the crude sex jokes about giving a dolphin CPR. But since the film has no emotional core and almost nothing redeeming about it, teens may enjoy a few laughs but more likely will wish they'd spent that hour and a half on something else.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the sexual innuendo in Summer's Last Resort. Is it too much? Is it funny? Who does it appeal to, and why do you think the filmmakers include so much of it?
Is drinking glamorized here? Are there realistic consequences for alcohol use? Why does that matter?
Did you notice any stereotypes? How did they make you feel? Why are accurate depictions in the media important?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming : July 3, 2026
- Cast : Sophia Bush , Jerry O'Connell , Violet McGraw
- Director : Melanie Scrofano
- Studio : Tubi Originals
- Genre : Comedy
- Topics : Adventures , Family Stories ( Moms , Siblings , Single Parents )
- Run time : 97 minutes
- MPAA rating :
- Last updated : July 29, 2026
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