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Summary: The Single Funniest Movie Ever
Review: 'Summer School' is truly the funniest movie in the history of film. You've gotta get past the 1987 styles and fashion, but once u do that...this movie is the great. Dave, Chainsaw, the pregnant surfer...ahh, you gotta see it to know what I mean. A cinematic classic. Its about time it came out on DVD. Go buy it now.
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Summary: Harmless Fun
Review: 1987's Summer School is an underrated comedy from the 80's. The plot revolves around reluctant summer school teacher, Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon), who is forced into the job after the original teacher hits the lottery. Shoop is a gym teacher and he must deal with a classroom full of typical high school misfits. Throughout the summer, Shoop's unconventional teaching methods get him trouble with the school's vice principal, but wins over the kids. The film is carried by the immensely likable cast. Mr. Harmon reactions to the student's quirks and miscues are perfectly timed and the students provide genuine laughs. Dean Cameron & Gary Riley are hilarious as shock meisters Chainsaw and Dave, Richard Steven Horowitz plays the perfect geek as Alan Eakain and a young Courtney Thorne-Smith is alluring as Pam House who develops a big time thing for Shoop. Kirstie Alley shows up as a love interest for Shoop. Summer School is a great, lightweight movie that is small on plot, but big on laughs and fun.
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Summary: Harmless Fun
Review: 1987's Summer School is an underrated comedy from the 80's. The plot revolves around reluctant summer school teacher, Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon), who is forced into the job after the original teacher hits the lottery. Shoop is a gym teacher and he must deal with a classroom full of typical high school misfits. Throughout the summer, Shoop's unconventional teaching methods get him trouble with the school's vice principal, but wins over the kids. The film is carried by the immensely likable cast. Mr. Harmon reactions to the student's quirks and miscues are perfectly timed and the students provide genuine laughs. Dean Cameron & Gary Riley are hilarious as shock meisters Chainsaw and Dave, Richard Steven Horowitz plays the perfect geek as Alan Eakain and a young Courtney Thorne-Smith is alluring as Pam House who develops a big time thing for Shoop. Kirstie Alley shows up as a love interest for Shoop. Summer School is a great, lightweight movie that is small on plot, but big on laughs and fun.
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Summary: Mark Harmon Rocks
Review: A very funny teen comedy about a handful of troublesome students who are forced to take an English class during the summer. Well, they are all pretty upset about this. Until they find out that the class is to be taught by the gym teacher! Woo-hoo!
It is really not as bad as it sounds. There are some really funny lines, Mark Harmon is great, and there is even a scene from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which the kids watch in class. And then they re-enact it for an unsuspecting lady and the principal!
Harmon and Kirstie Alley are the leading man and lady. They also star together in another cool Harmon movie, The Prince of Bel-Air.
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Summary: FUNNY, FUNNY, FUNNY
Review: After the would be summer school teacher wins $50,000 with a lotto ticket, laid back gym teacher Freddy Shoop is picked to teach the remedial english course. So begins our journey into laughter and fun. More lost in the class room than his underachieving group of charges, Shoop, as he prefers to be called, is a mere babysitter. Taking his class to petting zoos and go cart tracks until a sharp as a tack gramdma turns him in to the vice principal. In order to keep his job he must now TEACH, and get all of his students to pass an english basic skills test in only six weeks. The thing that really makes this movie work is the PERFECT casting of the players. Mark Harmon as the relaxed and slightly sexy gym teacher, Shoop. Kirstie Ally as the honors history teacher, Robin. Former child star and current JAG co star Patrick Laborteaux, as the football playing Kevin. Carl Riener, directs and makes a small appearence as the newly rich, lotto winning teacher, who's new word is MONEY! There is some swearing in the movie so it may not be suitable for the under 13 crowd.
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Summary: Don't wet your pants.....watch this...!
Review: Brilliant and sooooooo underrated. I'm a huge fan, and I'm so glad it's finally on DVD!
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Summary: Underrated Comedy
Review: Don't be fooled by the 'official' Amazon review. This is, in fact, a pretty funny movie.Mark Harmon stars as Mr. Shoop, a gym teacher who is forced to babysit a bunch of underachievers for summer school remedial English. At first, he takes the job as lightly as he does his gym classes (he allows his students in gym class to give themselves their own grades), and his students are more than willing to take advantage of the situation. Eventually, Harmon comes around and actually tries to teach his charges something. Undoubtedly, my favorite characters are Chainsaw and Dave--particularly their parody of Siskel and Ebert At The Movies. And I love it when Shoops asks one of them "Chainsaw? As in Black and Decker?", and Chainsaw responds "As in Texas Massacre." The cast includes Kirsty Alley, who went on to star in Cheers, as a fellow teacher and Shoop's lover interest; Courtney Thorne-Smith of Alley McBeal; Shawnee Smith of Becker; and Patrick Labyorteaux of JAG. A light-hearted, but very enjoyable comedy.
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Summary: Underrated Comedy
Review: Don't be fooled by the 'official' Amazon review. This is, in fact, a pretty funny movie. Mark Harmon stars as Mr. Shoop, a gym teacher who is forced to babysit a bunch of underachievers for summer school remedial English. At first, he takes the job as lightly as he does his gym classes (he allows his students in gym class to give themselves their own grades), and his students are more than willing to take advantage of the situation. Eventually, Harmon comes around and actually tries to teach his charges something. Undoubtedly, my favorite characters are Chainsaw and Dave--particularly their parody of Siskel and Ebert At The Movies. And I love it when Shoops asks one of them "Chainsaw? As in Black and Decker?", and Chainsaw responds "As in Texas Massacre." The cast includes Kirsty Alley, who went on to star in Cheers, as a fellow teacher and Shoop's lover interest; Courtney Thorne-Smith of Alley McBeal; Shawnee Smith of Becker; and Patrick Labyorteaux of JAG. A light-hearted, but very enjoyable comedy.
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Summary: Don't wet your pants.....watch this...!
Review: Fun 80's movie. Good acting. Good directing. Favorite line from the movie: When the high school gym teacher (Mark Harmon) is told he has to teach summer school he says, "...but I'm not a real teacher!" The principal replies, "That's okay, they're not real students."
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Summary: The best bad movie ever!
Review: Good news folks, the best bad movie ever is finally out on DVD! How best bad is it? Well, the movie was made in 1987 and it is just now getting pressed to DVD for June 1st. Welcome back Kotter episodes have been rushed to the market quicker than this film. Film? Nah... we'll just call this a movie. Let's take a quick look at some of my favorite moments in dialogue "You know what we need Wondermutt, I mean... besides bread? A woman who appreciates us". I already have June 1st set aside to buy this gem. One can only assume it won't be more than $14, and my guess is that it won't be in letterbox. Do yourself a favor and watch this gem. Wait, don't spend the $3 to rent it. Come over to my place and we'll watch it on the home theatre. Bring a lot of beer, you'll need to stomach some of Kirstie Alley's best bad acting (this was back when she was hot). In order to personally further Harmon's acting career (cause law dramas are beneath him), you people should know he carried St Elsewhere, and had a decent cameo in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. What more do you want in the cred department than that? I don't know if the DVD has any special fixins like recent cast interviews or featurettes... yet. Now you see why I don't much go to the movies. (...) I can't even go see a movie with my servants. Plus, last time I got drunk at the theatre things didn't go well. I guess you can't just pause the movie every 15 minutes for a pee break, well you can at my house, baby!
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