Savage Steve Holland somehow conned a major studio and an already dramatic-leaning John Cusack into his film One Crazy Summer, a looking glass of random chaos that plays like an acid-fried Zucker Brothers pilot. The introduction to One Crazy Summer is, literally, a deranged, animated bunny popping out of the Warner Bros. logo, as the audience is plunged into the id of the struggling cartoonist and basketball prodigy Hoops McCann (Cusack), animated by his own hand as a lumbering rhino. The Rhino sets off to find “love,” portrayed as a diapered, blind baby cupid with sunglasses. Immediately into his journey, the Rhino meets the “cute and fuzzy bunny gang” who, he assumes in his good-guy naiveté, will help him find love. The drunken and hostile bunnies instead beat and insult him, plaguing him throughout the film until—in ’80s movie logic—McCann saves singer Demi Moore’s family home, and true love defeats the cute and fuzzy bunny gang—for now.
