I saw a commercial for the third Santa Clause movie, and the announcer referred to it as the "Greatest Holiday Trilogy ever". Now at first glance, that just sounds like an overly self indulgent euphemism for what we in the Biz call a cash grab. I mean there'd be no Santa Clause two or three if one didn't make any amount of money. And we all know that just one Elf, or Grinch that Stole Christmas is worth ten different Santa Clauses.
Just the same, I wondered if there might actually be a holiday trilogy that actually was better than the Santa Clauses. That's when I remembered the Columbus Day Blow Out trilogy. They're your run-of-the-mill guys at a camp big party series, probably second to Porky's or Ski School in overall enjoyment, but they do in a pinch.
The first film, entitled simply Columbus Day Blow Out, was about two guys, Freddie and Jack, who are bequeathed their grandfather's Vermont cabin, and they decided to throw a huge party there over the long Columbus Day weekend. Jack meets Laura, daughter of the local canoe shop owner. She stonewalls his initial advances, only to eventually relent in a long scene of love making. Freddie somehow comes across the brokendown bus of the Boston football team's cheerleading squad (they invented a team that wasn't the Patriots). Let's just say hilarity ensues.
In part two, A Roman Columbus Holiday, a mysterious woman joins Freddie and Jack, who we eventually find out is the runaway princess of the fictitious kingdom of Muglonia. At the same time an evil land developer is trying to steal the camp to make a bunch of high priced resorts. They try to raise money with a party, only to have to pay for all the repairs to the camp, only to have the princess offer to pay with her kingdom's money collected through inflated taxes from the peasantry.
Finally, in part three, The Long, Hot Columbus Weekend, all bets are off. The guys are grown up, and they've passed the torch to their two younger cousins, Vance and Koy. The hijinx are amazing, with my favorite scene, the lesbian bikers playing monopoly with some exiles from a nearby band camp, being one of my all time favs in any movie. At the end, Freddie and Jack return for one last madcap romp of the lake.
If you get the opportunity, I would buy the new special edition boxed set which includes a four disc, a behind the scenes of the making of the greatest holiday trilogy ever.
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