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Summary: ONE OF THE FOUR BEST MOVIES OF ALL-TIME!!!
Review: I seriously PITY anyone who doesn't agree with this; especially someone who don't agree with this WHO'S ACTUALLY SEEN the movie! I recently looked at 'The Wizard of Oz', 'It's a Wonderful Life', and 'Star Wars' as the three best flicks of all-time (not necessarily in any particular order), but ever since I got 'Hollywood Knights' on DVD for Christmas last month and have seen it ever some more times since I first became familiar of it all them years ago, I would HAVE to say that it DOES join in the Top-FOUR (neither of the quartet in any particular order). The flick is just so POWERFUL to me! Yes, the flick has a bit of 'Porkys', 'Animal House', and 'American Grafitti' inspiration, but the thing is......is that it's BETTER than ANY of them flicks! BETTER than 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High', BETTER than 'Sixteen Candles' or ANY of the awesome brat-pack flicks, BETTER than 'Dazed and Confused'; etc, etc, etc......HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS RULES!! Plain and simple. 'American Grafitti', as classic as it is (and it is INDEED a classic, and deservingly so), is a little too politically-correct/PG-rated ala Richy Cunningham/Shirey (Happy Days). Hell, Lucas already is in my Top-4 flicks of all-time anyway. 'Knights' is a little more lewd, but much more to-the-point than 'Graffiti' as far as straight-comedy is concerned. Tony Danza and Michele Phiefer are the two 'stars' of the flick (most-likely because the movie wanted to sell more tickets being that Tony was already known for starring in 'Taxi' at the time and that Phiefer was a budding-star and EVER-so a Goddess - and is she EVER, EVER-so a Goddess in this flick; oh my!!), but it really is Robert Wuhl (in his first ever role) who completely steals the flick with his non-stop, endless comedy tactics as the role of Newbaum Turk. Too, too, TOO funny he is! He just rules!! And to think (acccording to the director's take) that he actually was 'nervous', 'shy' when this flick was being done. I can't even TELL you just how much of a trip he is throughout this flick without keeping you for 3 hours so I will simply just have to tell you to get this flick and see it for yourself. He practially REINVENTED comedy-relief in this cult-classic. This is one of Fran Drescher's first roles as well. Not only is she, as well, hot-as-hell in it but she also shows just how cool, fun, and spunky she can be as well. Fran rules! However, this flick isn't only a strictly funny flick with practical jokes galore (ala 'Porkys'), but it definitely takes you back to a crossroads of an era - an era that not only is of the most significance of the 20th century, but the most significant decade in AMERICAN HISTORY (the 1960s) - most drastic! Haloween 1965 is when this classic takes place, and although the 60s was already 'the 60s' when this flick took place, there were still many circles throughout the country that were still feeling the 50s (hot-rod clubs, greasers in leather jackets, etc). Despite the colorful 60s-friendly soundtrack, not a single Beatles or Dylan song was in it. The Hollywood Knights was a hot-rod club that was spending it's last night before their main hangout, Tubby's Drive In - Home of the Big One, would get closed down by some conseravative Beverly Hills beauracracy crap. Play as many practical jokes as possible before closing down, ala Neubaum, would be their game. One can actually feel the LATE 60s creep in as the movie went on. That character, one of the Knights, (who ended up playing in 'Alien Nation') who was going to Vietnam the next day and everyone in the flick wondering if the 'Knights' were going to stay together after the closing of Tubby's and the car which they were going to save for him when he came back home (with an EIGHT-TRACK inside - 'California Dreaming' playing ), only FOUR guys trying to initiate themselves into the 'Knights' instead of many more like in years past and having to run naked through Watts - when it wasn't quite what it would become - and request a song on the local radio station to Tubby's then make it back to Tubby's by 2AM are ALL examples of this change in the era. Even if you weren't around in this very very turbulant era, you can for sure feel it in this flick; and laugh out loud all at the same time. Just like 'Fast Times' marked a time just before the 80s became...MTV and just like 'Wayne's World' marked a time when metal-heads were still doing their thing when Cobain and Pearl Jam (Ugly Kid Joe) were already making their mark, 'Hollywood Knights' marked that time just before the 60s, indeed, BECAME THE SIXTIES. This movie simply offers you everything, without boring you for a second. Even the cheesy love plot between Danza and Phiefer have something to offer, whether it is with the help of such powerful 60s songs like 'Out of my Head' or just the fact that the two wanted to simply do something else with their lifes; MOVE ON (to, perhaps, the LATE 60s). Like 'Grease' (obviously a super-classic), what made the movie a total blast wasn't just the 'nerd' of the movie getting picked on and the odd way in which he acted ('mother, I knooooow'; 'I need my puffer'), but everything else besides it (ESPECIALLY Wuhl); but what makes this one even BETTER, is that Dudley at least ended up getting EXCEPTED where as Eugene even on the last day of school (carnival) was still not liked by the others. 'Hollywood Knights' is simply one of the four best flicks of all-time and if you see it for yourself and don't agree, I truly, TRULY feel sorry for you. I do. KNIGHTS RULE!PS - And for those who do see it for yourselves and AGREE, I expect you to say, "Thanks.....maaaaaaaan."
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Summary: Great cars
Review: Beautiful cars and very funny. I own this movie and I've seen it 100's of times and it still makes me laugh. I give it 1 thumb up cause I only have 1 thumb he he.
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Summary: Voolare!!!
Review: This movie is still making me laugh, even after 20 years. My wife and I watch it every Holloween night, and we still can't get enough! Seeing all this funny stuff again makes me want a glass of punch, race down Main Street, or go to a gymnasium, pick up a microphone and....
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Summary: Great Flick!!!!!!
Review: i saw this film when it 1st came out in 1980, I was crying from laughing so hard, I was so glad to see it on VHS after all these years. Newbomb Turk is a riot, one prank after another, lots of famous people in this movie, Danza, Pfifer, Wuhr, also the fat cop in the bathroom scene went on to play a sheriff in Mississippi Burning in 1988, dont remember his name though. I dont remember Fran Dresher from this film, have to watch it again. Highly Recommended, great party movie or if you need cheering up,a good movie to get your mind off your problems for an hour or so....
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Summary: Crazy fun
Review: this is a fun movie, one hilarious scene after another, a time when things were simple. not since American Graffiti has there been a movie where it brings back memories of a time in all our lives where we went to the local hangout with friends and made great memories. We have all known someone like Newbaum Turk, the guy who gives us Comic relief, one that looks like he is going nowhere in life but at a 20 year reunion he is the one that has made it to the top. great movie, fun to watch where later on you see the ones cast in the movie who later went on to be big stars that have given us more entertainment to enjoy.
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Summary: Sh-Boom
Review: I have just found this movie available and will have it immediately. I first saw the movie about 12 years ago and have looked for it over the years, but to date have only a copy from HBO to show for my efforts. This has to be the funniest movie of all times and I put it in a catagory by itself, one of a kind. To see some of the actors who have gone on to become big stars is incredible. Maybe they should have done a follow-up to this one. I can whole heartedly recommend this to all young and old adults alike. I even let my 13 year old son watch it, of course, I censored some of the parts until he is at least 21.........lol. Being a baby boomer myself, this film takes me back to the way many things were in the mid 60, just as I was getting out of high school, and I thank the producers and whoever for a great film.
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Summary: Finally released!
Review: This movie became a cult classic amongst my group of buddies back in high school (late 1980's). My best friend's older brother had a tape version off UHF and we would watch it every couple of months, in fact we still use some of the fantastic one liners from this film.
Since the release 5 copies have found their way to 5 very happy guys. A few of us had been searching for this for years.
Anyway, you can see some of todays stars early in their careers in a great comedy. A little tamer version of Porky's but with stars and hot cars.
Music is great and the jokes are moronic- which is perfect.
Great film.
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Summary: Still Love it after all the years.
Review: I'm a big fan of Robert Wuhl.Looking foward to the start of Arliss on HBO this summer. I watch the copy of the movie I have from a 19 year old video,taped from HBO in 1983.Been waiting to get a VHS copy but never could find one around. Saw a segment about ARliss on EXTRA today (June 14)and decided to check a DVD store and found it now availible. Cool!!!!! I'm glad to have it & I have highly recommended this fun comedy to several people who loved it after seeing it. 2 years ago in Toronto Canada,I found & bought an original movie poster with the licence plate over the butt picture that I saw in the theater when I saw the movie when it came out in 1980.So this DVD is great to own.
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Summary: This 2000 Edited Reprint lacks original hillarious material.
Review: I really enjoyed this film in its debut in 1980. It was one of the funniest films of its genre. In 1996, I and many of my friends would call every Blockbuster and later Hollywood video store in the state if they had 'The Hollywood Knights'. Most claimed they had movies titled, 'Hollywood Nights', but not the 'Knights' we grew up with and enjoyed. Well, something clicked with Columbia Pictures and the music buisness realizing the marketplace of the '80s generation. Almost everything we knew of from our highschool years is for sale now, great. However, there is a catch. Political Correctness and the, then no-name actors of the these movies. Many scenes in this particular movie have been cut out in the republishing process. Either out of PC, or pressure from the now, big names of the actors of today who don't want to be embarrassed by what they did in this film. What a shame. We are paying top dollar for a scrubbed teen classic. There are several other "new" VHS and DVDs of old films out today that are also scrubbed of good entertainment. If you can get a viewing of this movie in its original form, check it out and see all you missed with this sad reproduction. This review refers to both the VHS and DVD version.
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Summary: Yeah its cool
Review: I love this movie.It reminds so much of Animal House, and if you liked Animal House you wll love this. One of my favorite movies of all time
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