On the last day of summer, where can two oversexed high-school boys and two thrill-seeking high-school girls meet and fall in love while evading a trio of comically incompetent diamond thieves? Where else but a cut-rate fun park known simply as Fun Park? But for these car-free teens, getting there requires more than the skillful manipulation of bus transfers. For the buff Carl Marotte, it means getting a day off from his job at Fun Park so he can enjoy its pleasures as a customer, and convincing nebbishy, Canadian-accented pal Thor Bishopric to tag along. For mischievous Carolyn Dunn, it means punking out her hair, donning pink underwear reading "I [Heart] U," and recruiting shy friend Rachel Hayward for an afternoon of aging roller coasters and heavily processed snack treats. Can these two twosomes fall in love? Absolutely, but as it would in a Shakespearean comedy, it takes time to sort out who belongs to whom. After Marotte attempts to grope Hayward on a roller coaster, and Bishopric fails to make sparks fly with Dunn, it looks like their romances are going in four different directions at once. Left with no other recourse, the boys retire to the sewer, where they attempt to look up their potential girlfriends' skirts through a grate. Earning nothing but a faceful of urine from a passing sheepdog for their trouble, they decide to trade off and romance their better-suited partners. (Presumably after bathing.) But not if the criminals behind the theft of a priceless diamond have anything to do with it. Having earlier stashed the gem in a stuffed animal, then misplaced it, the thieves are forced to go through the park slitting open one toy after another, until, through the process of elimination, they settle on the one carried by Hayward. A wild chase ensues, until the gang eventually tricks the baddies by luring them onto a grease-filled stage in the middle of a breakdancing contest. After the villains pop and lock their way into jail, the quartet, now properly matched, retires to the skylift for some midair lovemaking, accompanied by Shannon's mid-'80s club sensation "Let The Music Play."
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