Excerpt:
Summer Holiday finds Richard and his buddies heading to Greece in a red British double-decker. They pick up a bunch of strangers along the way, including a trio of girl singers, a circus troupe (including a particularly verbose mime) and an undercover American teen pop star. Once again, the material is typical, if energetic, but the filmmaking and the energy of the young cast make it stand out. Peter Yates' directing is as assured as Furie's on The Young Ones, starting with a beautiful grainy, black-and-white opening sequence straight out of Italian neo-realism, and through all the Technicolor numbers. The mix of studio shooting with locations in Greece and France helps make Summer Holiday another fun flick.