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Summary: To Dude, With Love!
Review: Predictable high school farce film with predictable characters and plot (Teacher hates students, Principal hates teacher, so teacher gets back at Principal by helping students and learns to love students etc. etc.). Mark Harmon cruises through SUMMER SCHOOL just like all the student characters in the film. It is as if he knows he is going to get paid for his work no matter how little effort he puts into it... the students think they're going to pass summer school just by showing up to class. Not much here except for a couple of standout characters in the film. Two student/buddies who are a cross between Siskel and Ebert and Beavis and Butthead whose ambition is to work on slasher flicks, are pretty funny and not too annoying. However, the rest of the cast of characters including the principal are not very likable and Kirsty Alley's comic talents are wasted. One of those films where the trailer was way funnier than the film itself and makes one look up to the movie gods and ask, "Why and for what purpose was this film made for?!". Overall, a lackluster effort from director Carl Reiner. For a more worthy film along the same lines, watch TO SIR, WITH LOVE with Sidney Poitier. Note: Look for Shawnee Smith (tv's BECKER), Fabiana Udenio (Austin Powers' "Alotta Fagina" and Courtney Thorne Smith (Melrose Place) in support roles.
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Summary: KILLER BUNNIES!!!
Review: Screw the Amazon editorial reviewer. That person doesn't know what they're talking about. This movie is AWESOME! Silly...absolutley. Serious...no way! Pee in yer pants funny...HELL YEAH!Mark Harmon is fantastic as Freddy Shoop a lazy surfer beach bum gym teacher who only teaches to get his summers off. He is forced to teach a group of "misfits" during summer school or he loses his job. Simple and easy. But most comedies don't rely on story, it's all about the characters and the situations. This ones got great characters galore. All the students are fully fleshed out characters each with their own stories and situations. From the horror loving goofballs Dave and Chainsaw, Pam the surfer chick, Inkian the nerd, Larry the sleeper, to Anna-Marie the-HOLY MOLY-she's-HOT Italian foreign exchange student, all of them are unique and loveable. Mark Harmon pulls it all together with a great comic performance. Plus he's great while he tries to win the heart of fellow summer school honors class teacher, Kirstie Alley away from her boyfriend, the vice principal who sentenced Shoop to summer school. This movie is a classic of the teen/college movie genre. Much like "Sixteen Candles", "The Sure Thing, "Weird Science", "Real Genius", and " Revenge of the Nerds. This is one of the best 80's comedies. If you haven't seen it, then run, drive over the speed limit, push an old lady out of the way, do anything as fast as you can to see this movie and buy it. It's not out on DVD, so you gotta find a VHS copy. Hey DVD manufactures...put this out on a special edition 2 disc collectors set with loads of extras like cast commentary, a couple of making of documentaries, a where are they now segement with interviews with the entire cast, deleted scenes, and a long gag and blooper reel. Cause if you don't I will search the four corners of the earth to find you, and if you don't gimme what I've asked for, I will throw the biggest temper tantrum you've ever seen an adult do, and it won't be pretty. To everyone one else. See this movie and have a blast watching it over and over again, just like me.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: Summer School is by far one of my all-time favorite movies to watch. You can never get bored with it, I must have watched it 200 times or more. The movie is all about a high school gym teacher (Mark Harmon) Freddy Shoop who is forced to teach remedial English class in summer school to a group of social misfits. Shoop has no idea how to teach and instead of hitting the books, they hit the amusement parks, beaches, petting zoos, amongst other places. His students include: Chainsaw & Dave who are obssessed with horror movies and play pranks on the vice president. Larry who sleeps in class throughout the entire movie. Pam who has a crush on her teacher Mr. Shoop. Jerome Watkins who spends 9 weeks in the bathroom because his zipper got stuck! Allen Ekian who is your basic "geek/nerd". Ronda who is pregnant and doesn't know who the father is. Denise Green who is trying to get her drivers license but is a terrible driver to say the least! In order for Shoop to get his students to learn he has to bribe them! Chainsaw & Dave get to have a party at shoops house on the 4th of July, a ride to and from work, plus a in school screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. Larry gets his own bed in the classroom. Pam "needs a place to stay" and gets to move in with Mr. Shoop. Mr. Shoop has to become Ronda's Lamoz coach. He has to give Denise driving lessons. And Mr. Shoop has to be Kevin's "tackling dummy" in case he makes it back on the football team. It's hard to explain in words how funny this movie is, you'll just have to see it for yourself!
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Summary: Mr. Shoop for Teacher of the Year!!!
Review: Sure, teachers are the unsung heroes of society...from Robin Williams in DEAD POET'S SOCIETY to Richard Dreyfuss in MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS, teachers truly teach only if they first inspire their students to want to learn something. Personality goes a lot further than text book narrative in the classroom. Sure, SUMMER SCHOOL is not and never will be an Academy Award-winner, but in its own funny and unique way, it's a movie that has found its way into the hearts and minds of many, many film lovers. The "School of Shoop" quite simply rocks! OK, the movie is very by-the-numbers in terms of narrative, but is also one of those comedies that relies on the talent of its starring and supporting actors in making an impression with its audience. Characters like Chainsaw and Dave offer up some of the best and most memorable lines and a very mellow Mark Harmon reminds everyone of that one favorite teacher they had in high school or college. Let the stuck-up, snooty film circle critics mock those of us who love movies like this. For those with closed minds like that, your exposure to the finer (and funnier) things in life are very, very narrow. I tend to respect the visions of many instead of those of a few. The 80's was my decade and it was the movies more than the music that molded its generation into who we are today. And it's great, feel-good movies like 1987's SUMMER SCHOOL that flood us with nostalgia for an era gone by, but never too far away.
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Summary: Pleasant & Underrated Comedy
Review: The people who are writing negative reviews of this film are taking themselves (and this movie) WAY too seriously. Sure, "Summer School" is innocuous and fairly predictable fluff, but it's also good-natured, pleasant and at times extremely funny; there are plenty of worse ways to kill 100 minutes. The movie is very well acted (Mark Harmon's breezy "What, me worry?" charm is in full bloom here) and benefits from comedy vet Carl Reiner's expert sense of comic timing. Not a film that's going to change the world, but great non-think entertainment...a sort of lost classic from the 80s.
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Summary: Pleasant & Underrated Comedy
Review: The people who are writing negative reviews of this film are taking themselves (and this movie) WAY too seriously. Sure, "Summer School" is innocuous and fairly predictable fluff, but it's also good-natured, pleasant and at times extremely funny; there are plenty of worse ways to kill 100 minutes. The movie is very well acted (Mark Harmon's breezy "What, me worry?" charm is in full bloom here) and benefits from comedy vet Carl Reiner's expert sense of comic timing. Not a film that's going to change the world, but great non-think entertainment...a sort of lost classic from the 80s.
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Summary: One of my top 3 favorite movies of all time
Review: This film is awsome. It's funny and ...... funny at the same time. I'm in summer school right now as a high school student and watching this movie makes me wanna go . Well if summer school was as fun as the way school was in the movie than i would go to summer school everyday. The characters in the movie are the same different types of kids there are in schools today. My favorite character is MR. Shoop the PE teacher that has to teach during the summer to a bunch of misfit kids who don't want to learn, but who later on realize how the teacher is trying to help. Highly recommended if u have a sense of humor and is looking to blow off 2 hours of the day! SUMMER SCHOOL RULES!
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Summary: very average
Review: this film is two films in one.the classroom antics that make up Summer School and the CHemistry of Kirstie Alley&Mark Harmon.but the problem with this film is the typical cliches of School films in the 80's.
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Summary: The perfect 80's movie
Review: This is an excellent 80's comedy. Mark Harmon's zany humor and Kirstie Alley's more sarcastic humor compliment each other perfectly. When you combine the humor of these main characters with that of the school "rejects," this movie is a load of fun. This movie's purpose isn't to really make you think or to tug at your emotions. It's purpose isn't that elevated. It's there to make you LAUGH......and it does just that! It not only makes you laugh, but it takes you back in time to that wonderful decade known as the 80's. I love Mark Harmon, and I love this movie. It can be enjoyed by both "children" of the 80's and 90's as well as older adults. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: I can watch it over and over again
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. I have watched it infinite times. This movie is funny and entertaining. I never get bored watching it. It's a story of a gym teacher who gets to teach summer school, and in order to get a tenure for next year he has to make the students pass their english tests, but they are students lacking motivation and skills. On the way to the test the story has a lot of sub plots, and very funny and memorable moments, with great characters like Chainsaw and Dave who love horror movies, Denise a dislexic girl, Larry an underage stripper, Pam (Courtney Thorne Smith) a surfer, and of course Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon) and Robin Bishop (Kirsty Alley).
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