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7[[caption-width-right:315:''"Call me Cap'n Ron, boss!"'']]
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9''Captain Ron'' is a 1992 comedy film directed by Thom Eberhardt, starring Creator/KurtRussell and Creator/MartinShort.
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11The film opens with Chicago businessman Martin Harvey (Short) and his family--wife Katherine (Creator/MaryKayPlace), daughter Caroline (Creator/MeadowSisto), and son Benjamin (Creator/BenjaminSalisbury)--discovering that they've inherited a vintage yacht that once belonged to Creator/ClarkGable. Traveling to the sunny island of San Pomme-De-Terre to claim the dilapidated vessel, the Harveys soon realize they need to hire someone to help them sail it to Miami so they can sell it.
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13That "someone" turns out to be the bumbling, mischievous, [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]]-sporting rascal, Captain Ron Rico (Russell). With his somewhat dubious nautical skills and excessively laid-back attitude, Captain Ron ends up taking the Harveys on a wild adventure around the Caribbean, managing to charm the rest of the family along the way even as he creates some serious tension with Martin himself.
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16!!This film contains examples of:
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18* TheAllegedCar: In this case, the alleged boat. It's in extremely poor condition despite the fact it previously was owned by Clark Gable. Probably because it's been in storage for decades.
19* BigDamnHeroes: Both Captain Ron and [[spoiler: The United States Coast Guard]] toward the end.
20* BilingualBonus: San Pomme-De-Terre translates to "Saint Potato" (a mix of [[GratuitousSpanish Spanish]] and [[GratuitousFrench French]]), and the name of the pirates' ship, "Albondiga", is [[GratuitousSpanish Spanish]] for "Meatball".
21* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Caroline. First, she’s getting engaged to her boyfriend when not even out of high school (said boyfriend is practically tailor-made to be her parents’ worst nightmare), then she’s sneaking off with every boy she meets on every island they visit, coming back from one such adventure with a tattoo. She’s also uninterested in pulling her weight on the boat.
22%%* BumblingDad: Martin.
23* CaptainsLog: Martin starts a log of their adventures, but his jealousy of Captain Ron's easy charm with his family leads to it becoming just a book of complaints about everything Ron does. After Ron saves them from the pirates, Martin starts a new log which is much less crabby and notes that the previous log mysteriously got destroyed by the pirates.
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26* EyepatchOfPower: Captain Ron, though he's quite a departure from Kurt Russell's [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork other one-eyed role]].
27* CloudCuckooLander: Captain Ron is a hard-drinking, womanizing, ex-Navy sailor-for-hire of questionable skill and judgment. Of course, he turns out to be right surprisingly often...
28** When questioned about maritime right-of-way rules, he dismissively says, "Don't worry, they'll get outta the way." He learned this lesson from having previously been a helmsman on USS ''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Saratoga_(CV-60) Saratoga]]''. That their 40-foot sailboat is decidedly smaller than an aircraft carrier evidently hasn't occurred to him.
29* FunWithHomophones: Martin is dismissive when Captain Ron tries to warn him to look out for gorillas on an island, claiming they aren't a native species. He soon gets captured by a small ragtag army - Ron had been saying "guerrillas".
30* HeelRealization: Captain Ron when Ben tells him that compared to him, their dad is a screw up.
31* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Captain Ron says that he has broken his leg and that "the bone is about to push through the skin". Yet he limps just fine and barely has any reaction to it. It's a sign that [[spoiler:he's actually faking it to help Martin be the hero for his kids.]]
32* MaleGaze: Captain Ron ''loves'' him some Katherine and Caroline...
33* PrecisionFStrike:
34--> '''Captain Ron:''' We're all gonna fuckin' die!
35* RuthlessModernPirates: Martin, [[CallBack who had previously scoffed at the idea of pirates being a real thing]], suddenly regrets throwing all of Captain Ron's guns overboard.
36* ShowerOfAwkward: When Captain Ron catches Martin and Katherine "playing 'hide-the-salami' in the shower." [[DumbassHasAPoint He rightly reminds them that the boat carries a finite supply of fresh water]].
37* SpitTake: Benjamin, upon learning of his parent's shower antics.
38* StripPoker: Ben learns the game from Captain Ron
39* WakingNonSequitur:
40--> '''Captain Ron:''' I didn't do it! I didn't do it, I swear!
41* WalkingShirtlessScene: Not only does Captain Ron spend most of the movie without a shirt on, he even spends a couple of scenes wearing only a snug little [[BrandNameTakeover Speedo]], and another scene shows him in his underwear, a pair of itty-bitty briefs. Good thing he has the physique for it, [[BrainBleach otherwise]]...
42** Caroline spends most of the film in either a bikini top or tiny halter top.

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