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Summary: Throw away your VHS !
Review: Yes, you will toss your well-loved VHS edition of this RAMONES classic when you viddy what the DVD has for ya! In addition to the spiffiest presentation yet available (sharper, cleaned-up picture and sound), you get a buttload of extras! Start with a booklet with a Johnny Ramone interview, add a special intro and thank you from director Allan Arkush on the disc itself, stir in the original trailer (will YOUR school be NEXT?), sprinkle with audio outtakes from the Ramones' concert sequences at the Roxy, and garnish with a second audio track featuring hilarious and sometimes harrowing commentary from Arkush, producer Michael Finnell and screenwriter Richard Whitley (you won't believe what everyone went through to get this pic made, and made right!) and you have a DVD that is a winner from start to finish! There is even more stuff on the disc that I won't get into here, but you'll love it. A classic movie deserves a classic (and classy) DVD. THIS IS IT! Great job, guys! Joey and Dee Dee are smilin' down at'cha!
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Summary: Oh Joey!!!
Review: I have loved this movie since being the age of four, since then it has been crimped hair and leather jackets all the way. I was a playground punk at the age of five, and by the age of six my whole family called me Riff.
This movie has been the frame of my life, from the first time i saw it I have been in love with Joey. I am now in High School, and none of my friends are familiar with The Ramones, yet I am still hopelessly devoted to them.
If you dont like the Ramones, you will after you have watched the movie. If you do like them, watching this will make you like them even more! It's funny, kinda cool and the music rocks!!! It tells the story of Riff Randall, the Ramones' number one fan, who will go to any lengths to defend them, AND MEET THEM!
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Summary: Just Sit back and enjoy
Review: This movie is great, it's got the ramones in concert (Blitzkreig Bop, California Sun, Teenage Lobotomy, Pinhead, and She's the one live) And it's funny and creative and a school gets blown up. Just lay down and watch it and you'll feel better.
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Summary: BEST MOVIE EVER
Review: This is the best movie ever...ever...ever....it has the best music and even though the plot is stupid the movie is still very good...watch it!!
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Summary: HELP Goes to High School!
Review: I originally had this on VHS from some used video store collection around 1992; I was so scared it would break that I bought two copies. Thank heavens it's on DVD! "Rock And Roll High School" was a giddy over-the-top b-movie from the king of the b's, Roger Corman. I am sure it was patterned after the teen rebellion movies of the 50's and the anarchy of The Beatles' films, but probably with less of a budget than The Ramones spent on their albums. It's that cheesy low budget quality permeates this movie and gives it charm. The jokes are often beyond silly (the exploding rat, for instance) and the acting just above cornball caricature. It makes me love it all the more. The soundtrack has all the standard when-teens-attack songs like "School's Out" and The Ramones' brilliant title song. Then for added musical pleasure measure, there's a never released Paul McCartney song and inclusions from Nick Lowe and Eddie & the Hot Rods. There are so many classic moments here, from Dee Dee playing in the shower, Mr. McCree's (Paul Bartel) transformation to a punker in the hallways, the EEEE-Vul Miss Togar, the "office" of Eaglebauer, and of course, the wish fulfillment fantasy as The Ramones and the students do what every student who ever hated High School and loved Rock and Roll would want: take over Vince Lombardi High. (And let's not forget the fantastic Ramones concert sequence!) "Rock And Roll High School" may not be the best Rock driven movie of all time, but I'd probably call it my personal favorite. It's Gabba Gabba Groovy.
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Summary: We're Not Students...We're RAMONES
Review: You've got to see this movie--I don't care if you love the Ramones or just like movies or WHAT! Everyone will enjoy this riotous '80s movie. It's hilarious, it's colorful, it's pure fun, and...the Ramones aren't only great musicians, they're such fabulous actors. *gasp* Who would have guessed? yeah...Anyway, here's the lowdown: Girl's obsessed with Ramones, evil EVIL EEVVIILL principal comes to her high school, hates Ramones, thwarts plans to attend concert that she camped out to get tickets to, thwarts evil principal with nerdy best friend, goes to concert, gets uptight music teacher 'hip' and on side of kids, meets Ramones, gives them new song "Rock and Roll HS," thwarts evil principal, nerdy friend gets a man, and...OOH I can't disclose the ending but it has some pyrotechnic action. Oh, and the Ramones kinda save the day. This movie rules. The music's great, the energy's high, and the characters are all perfect confectionous, high colored paintings. All this comes together into the perfect crowd-pleaser film.
Some highlights:
"We're not students, we're Ramones."
-Joey Ramone (does not move mouth)
"Do your parents know you're Ramones?"
-Evil Principal
"He looks like a POEM."
-Riff (our hero) on Joey Ramone Get this film, and get ready for a really great time...!
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Summary: I'm so glad they re-released it!
Review: I love this movie! It's so good. It's a fun movie that has great music, including Ramones (of course), the Velvet Underground, MC5, and Paul McCartney and Wings. If you want a fun, great movie, then buy Rock 'N' Roll High School.
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Summary: A classic!
Review: This movie is such a classic....if you are a lover of the Ramones then you have to see this ridiculous yet entertaining movie. It's hysterical, especially if you are a fan of late 70's, early 80's movies. A must for your dvd collection.
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Summary: Corman and the Ramones at their peak.
Review: It's possibly the only movie i've ever seen that can stand up to Death Race 2000. The funniest thing about this movie is that Joey Isn't the worst actor, and the backstage scene with him eating the wheat germ and sprouts is a classic. Watch this with a new school know it all punk and watch his/her jaw drop when he/she discovers that the fabled band that spawned the movement are lovable cartoon delinquents that just want to be the beatles. So perfect.
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Summary: D.U.M.B. Everyone's accusing me!
Review: I just watched this. It's completely stupid, thoroughly irresponsible (from my thirty-something perspective) and it just completely rocks. As rock movies go, it's up there with Gimme Shelter and Don't Look Back. A must for anyone who hated high school and who's life was saved by rock n' roll (extra points for the inclusion of the VU tune from which those words come and for the poignant image of "Highway 61" on fire just before the Ramones show up and help destroy the school)
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