Muffy's Fools *Edit

What gives?!

 You know, Bernstein's score in Walton's April Fool's Day (1986) really for me is one of the film's significant highlights. It sort of paints the film with colors the slasher genre, which this film imitates somewhat but doesn't commit all the way. While the cast has some interesting choices, some of whom are Ivy League prick characters, others frustrated with certain aspects of their college and personal lives, I guess the idyllic setting and aforementioned score helps. I still feel this way. Each year I watch this, my impression sort of remains about the same. I still love Foreman and Steele. That'll never change. Foreman's increasing weirdness, Thomas Wilson's goof, and the holiday pranks and island getaway murder mystery gimmick do remain annual reasons to revisit it. Rohner and Goodrich are made for each other. Pinsent as the awkward, bookish, sort of out of place theater pal of Foreman I could relate to as the popular crowd I always felt an outsider. Olandt as Steele's buff, medical school washout beau is a nice enough guy, while Jay Baker as capitalist-in-training future CEO wannabe has his corny, affable nature that clashes with Bohner and especially Goodrich. There is some serious tension among the cast, with obvious personality conflicts.