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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineAll in all a very funny movie with enough solid, believable story to take it beyond the realm of teenage summer fare.
- 70Time OutTime OutOne of Hollywood's better 'growing up' movies, this steers well clear of tear-jerker material by tracking the on-off juvenile romance of car-mad (post-Star Wars) Hamill and apprentice hooker Annie Potts through the neon glare of Las Vegas.
- 70The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayFrom the jargon-heavy dialogue to the loving shots of tricked-out autos, Corvette Summer is heaven for people who love hot wheels.
- 60The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayCorvette Summer was originally billed as "a fiberglass romance," and that about sums up its thematic ambitions. Robbins cares about the automobiles much more than the drivers. From the jargon-filled car talk to the repeated shots of tricked-out machines, Corvette Summer is about hot wheels, not what they mean.
- 60The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelThe picture doesn't have a snappy enough rhythm, and the repartee is often too slow, and the story takes a bad turn just past midway by making a melodramatic villain out of a likable character. But until then it's generally fresh, and it has a lovely soft visual quality, with unusually pleasing camera placement.
- 40The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThe central portion of Corvette Summmer, set in Las Vegas with an Alice in Wonderland air, has a visual zaniness that meshes effectively with the script. But for the most part, the movie takes a slender, boyish conceit — of the sort that is suddenly so popular among Hollywood's current batch of boy wonders — and invests it with silliness rather than whimsy.
- 40Washington PostGary ArnoldWashington PostGary ArnoldThe premise breaks down just at the point when it needs to be cleverly elaborated into a story. [05 Aug 1978, p.H1]