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Summary: Pure-Rodney
Review: Pure Rodney mayhem, when he decides to join college to keep his son from dropping out of school. R.D. is at his best with the wisecracks, insults and jokes. The supporting cast is well suited to keep R.D. entertained. Dean Martin would like to see you ! Great Comedy from the famous one-liner himself.
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Summary: Take your DVD collection back to school with this classic!
Review: Rodney Dangerfield's follow-up to Easy Money (1983)is as equally funny as said movie. This time he plays Thornton Melon, a self-mad millionaire owner of a chain of Tall and Fat clothing stores. His son, Jason (Keith Gordon), is up at college, living the sweet life... at least in the phone calls home. He only has one friend, the campus weirdo (Robert Downey, Jr.), and is the lowly towel boy for the swim team. After a divorce with his shallow second wife (involving pictures of her with the butler and a midget), he comes up to the college, and winds up enrolling as the world's oldest freshman. He helps make college life fun for his friends, and winds uop ticking off his finance professor by stealing his poetry professor girlfriend (Sally Kellerman), who vows to make college life a living hell. Can Thornton make it by, even with the trouble he lands in?A good, solid comedy with great performances all around, the best by Dangerfield, Kellerman, Gordon, Downey Jr, and Sam Kinison as a crazed vietnam vet-turned-history professor(according to Thornton, "He's a good teacher. He really cares.... about what, I'll never know.") The disc gives you a choic between widescreen and full frame presentations of the film, bot with good video, with little to no grain present. The sound is presented in Dolby Surround 2.0, and sounds great. the only feature is the trailer (in full-frame), and this is a title that screams SPECIAL EDITION. Where is it? BACK TO SCHOOL
(1986, PG-13) Thornton Melon: Rodney Dangerfield
Diane Turner: Sally Kellerman
Lou: Burt Young
Jason Melon: Keith Gordon
Derek Lutz: Robert Downey, Jr.
Phillip Barbay: Paxton Whitehead Director: Alan Metter
Writers: Rodney Dangerfield, Greg Fields, Dennis Snee (all story), Steven Kampmann, William Porter, Peter Torkovei, Harold Ramis (all screenplay) MOVIE: 5
VIDEO: 5
AUDIO: 5
EXTRAS: 2
MENUS: 3
OVERALL: 4
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Summary: A great temporary cure for the blues
Review: Rodney delivers the goods here. I mean, let's face it, he was the ONLY reason to watch Caddyshack. He is one doggone funny guy. The one liners here are great and there are plenty of 'em. Plus you get to see Robert Downey Jr. in an early role as a wigged out college guy (now that he's a, you know, very conservative adult, catch this movie to see how much he's really changed). Yeah, OK, so maybe it's not exactly credible that a gorgeous babe like Sally Kellerman would fall for a goofy overweight guy like Rodney, but then again, he's loaded. And what babe would turn down a loaded guy, even if he's chunky? But he shows a lot of heart here which is what makes this work. Rodney (Thurman Melon, short for Meloni--I guess he didn't want to reveal his Italian ancestry) never finished college--actually, he never went to college. So he accepts a challenge from his college-age son to go to the same school his son attends to show how hard it is--or isn't. We find out that Thruman was a diving champ in high school and he gets to prove it in the story. Plus he belts out a great rendition of Twist and Shout. You also get to see Oingo Boingo when they were at the top of their game do a few numbers. (For those of you unfamiliar, they were a great party rock band from the mid-80s to the early 90s.) Thurman is married to catwoman Adrienne Barbeau who, despite her obvious, shall we say, endowments, is mean-spirited (Rodney loves to have a mean-spirited woman in his flicks; check out Geraldine Fitzgerald in Easy Money). But she fools around once too many times and the marriage is bust. Off to school Rodney (uh, I mean Thurman) goes which is where he meets Sally Kellerman's English professor with whom he's smitten immediately. It's predictable, but a lot of fun. Rodney is one of the very few guys around who really makes me laugh. Pretty hard thing to accomplish, but he does the job. So if you're feeling low, stick this in your DVD player and for at least 90 minutes or so you can relax and laugh a lot.
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Summary: This movie should inspire us all to go back.
Review: Rodney has been in many films. However this is the one I will always relate him to. Aside from his one liners and "I get no respect" gags he does a good job of bring out the best (and worst) abut collage. I will admit that he does not look like Bing Crosby in " High Time" (1960), however we have just as much fun watching him adjust and then do one better.
On of my favorite parts is when he has Kurt Vonnegut Jr. doing his homework; that is called delegation.
One annoying part of school is when someone says there is so much picture framing material and asks how do you make a picture twice [as] wide as it is high? People usually measure the picture for the frame. So when the professor said let's build a factory and Thorton Melon asks what are you going to make? I about fell off my seat.
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Summary: Rodney at his best!
Review: Rodney plays Thornton Mellon, a successful businessman married to Vanessa (Adrienne Barbiou) who fools around with any man she can find. Thornton does not really care because he is worried that his son Jason is failing in college and may drop out.
In order to keep his son in school, Thornton has to go there himself and do something he has never done - study for himself.
Thornton's problems are compounded by Phillip, the know-it-all Business professor who hates the street-smart Mellon. Phillip will do anything in his power to see that Mellon is expelled from school.
Thornton falls hard for his English teacher (Sally Kellerman) who happens to be dating Phillip, causing a bigger rivalry between Thornton and his teacher.
There are side splitting hilarious moments in this movie including a couple of tirades by Sam Kennison as the crazy history professor. One of the funniest movies I have seen!
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Summary: RODNEY SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Review: The GPA on BACK TO SCHOOL is a solid 4.0. You can see that Alan Metter and Harold Ramis gave Rodney the outline, threw away his copy of the script and said just run with it, which he does to near comic perfection. The lines are memorable ("I hate small food,"..."I got rid of Vanessa, I feel like I've been paroled!"..."Why don't you call me sometime when you have no class."). The best gag revolves around Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and anyone who had to essay his work in American Lit 101 will roar. This is Rodney in his prime.
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Summary: Rodney's Best
Review: The is Rodney Dangerfield's best movie. Sam Kinison was great as the History professor. As with most of Rodney's movies, it is mainly a showcase for Rodney's one-liners, but in this case I thought the plot was fairly interesting. Of course this movie could not be consider a great movie, but it was funny and enjoyable for someone who just wants to have a good time.
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Summary: back to school
Review: the pitcher in not the best mgm has to ofter the best move is spaceball on dvd
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Summary: absolutely amazing
Review: The scene with the Sam Kinison playing the history teacher is the funniest scene ever made
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Summary: hilarious!
Review: there's something about rodney that just cracks me up everytime i see him. i have seen just about all of his movies, and this is BY FAR the funniest. movie-wise its good- not great. but comedy-wise, it's 5 stars. also, the acting by the supporting cast is very good considering the content. i can literally think of 50 REALLY funny parts in this movie easily. if your looking for a simple movie that delivers PURE laughter, look no further than BACK TO SCHOOL!
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