Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Sam Panico Best friends and nerds Lewis Skolnick (Robert Carradine, son of "skinny Dracula" John Carradine and brother of David Carradine) and Gilbert Lowe (Anthony Edwards) are excited to attend Adams College, but are instantly kicked out of their dorm by the Alpha Betas, who have burned their house down. Sleeping on cots in the gym, they find other like-minded misfits and decide to create their own fraternity.The film follows the 80's comedy blueprint: a simple premise is stated, then hijinks ensue. Here, it is: "Nerds go to school and fight jocks, then hijinks ensue."Battling Alpha Betas Stan (Ted McGinley, he who has caused many a TV show to "Jump the Shark"), Burke (Matt Salinger, son of J.D. and star of 1990's Captain America) and Ogre (Donald Gibb, Ray Jackson from Bloodsport), our Nerds overcome adversity and become a probationary Tri-Lamb fraternity. Ironically, Lambda Lambda Lambda has always been an all-black frat. And the boys only have one black member, the stereotypically gay Lamar.That means that Tri-Lamb president U.N. Jefferson (Bernie Casey from Gargoyles!) has to come visit the boys. They throw a party that is boring until Booger's (Curtis Armstrong) drugs get involved — welcome to the 80's — and everyone loses their inhibitions. However, the jocks disrupt their party, leading to Jefferson coming around to the guys as he senses discrimination.The Nerds take their titular revenge by conducting a panty raid and putting liquid heat into the jock straps of the football team, leading to Jefferson making them a real frat. However, the harassment can never stop while Stan is the President of the Greek Council. So the Nerds need to win the Greek Games during homecoming so that they get a vote — which they do so via a combination of their intelligence, more drugs and some questionable decisions (more on those in a bit). Oh yeah — and there's also an 80's synth music number.The jocks trash the Nerds house, but Gilbert decides to speak up at a pep rally. The dean, U.N. Jefferson and a group of big black Tri-Lambs stand up for him and the Nerds ask all the disenfranchised in the audience to join them. The dean tells the jocks that they have to give up their house until the damage to the Tri-Lambs house is fixed, saying, "You're jocks, go live in the gym." Everyone celebrates. The end.Except, well, there are some troubling moments.What bonds the Nerds and brings them together? A panty raid, as the boys descend on the Pi Delta Pi sorority house, stealing panties, chasing women and placing video cameras, through which the boys watch the women while they go about their daily lives. In the 80's, this was considered a prank. Today, we'd call it rape. But it gets worse. Much worse.In the Greek Games, a pie-selling contest determines much of the final score. The Nerds win by using nude photos of Betty (Julia Montgomery, The Kindred) under the crust of their pies. Again, this is abhorrent behavior. But it gets worse.There's also a kissing booth, where Lewis attempts to make his move on Betty. She is replaced with a large, unattractive woman, showing that even the Nerds place an emphasis on physical versus internal beauty, no matter what hardships that very same prejudice has put them through. Then, Lewis steals Stan's costume and tricks Betty into having sex with him. Yes, the hero of this movie knowingly ignores consent to have sex. This is pure and simple rape. This isn't a snowflake looking back on a fun remnant of our pop culture past. This scene has bothered me since I first watching this film on VHS. Even worse, Betty falls instantly in love with her rapist, asking him if all Nerds are this good in bed.I haven't even gotten into the racism of the film, which posits all Japanese as horny photograph taking morons through the Takashi character. That said, Brian Tochi, the actor who played Takashi, is credited "for breaking the barriers and opening doors for East Asian people in entertainment in the U.S., and advancing the perception that Oriental actors have the ability to portray more mainstream roles." Those mainstream roles also include Cadet Tomoko "Elvis" Nogata in the Police Academy films, who acts just as ridiculous as Takashi (but doesn't have his own corny Asian theme song). Or just how stereotypically gay Lamar is.But to me, the worst sin of the film is that when the Nerds win, instead of treating their opponents with the care that they never received and teaching everyone an important lesson, they instead relegate the jocks back to the fate they had once suffered. No one learns anything. The cycle repeats and now the jocks become the Nerds who have become the jocks. This reminds me of how insular societies — wrestling fans, comic book lovers — can be more hate-filled and clique obsessed than their worst perceived enemies.Read more at http://bit.ly/2A4SBqO

Nerdman Shyamalan Animal House is of course the best college comedy, but this film would come in at a close second. There are plenty of good bits here that will surely make you laugh, but I do believe that the film could have used a bit more work in terms of the script, but as a whole it works and this is among the better comedies of this period. This is one of the few college comedies that has some of the most memorable characters and for that, it remains a classic college comedy that will surely entertain you. The cast make it a fun film to watch and it is definitely a fine 80's comedy that will entertain you from start to finish. The story is simple, yet memorable in the long run.

jimbo-53-186511 Lewis (Robert Carradine) and Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) are sent to Adams College and quickly find themselves as outcasts due to the fact that they are 'nerds.' After being constantly bullied by the Alpha Betas or Jocks as they are otherwise known, the nerds set about getting revenge against the Jocks.So that's your basic plot line and there is no point in attempting to elaborate further as there is nothing much more that I can say beyond my basic plot summary. You essentially have the social outcasts against the popular 'sporty' types who only clash when the jocks own digs end up being burned down.What essentially follows from this point is a series of tiresome and unfunny sequences involving attempted 'one upmanship' between the two rival camps all of which have no real spark or imagination. It's also a very lazy film which felt as though it had ripped off almost everything that we'd seen before in Animal House (only to much lesser effect). Whereas Animal House was gross-out and overdone, it was at least quite amusing, but this film barely registered a chuckle with me.I also found some of the writing to be somewhat inconsistent; on the one hand it suggests at the end that you should just be happy with yourself and stand up for who you are (which is fine). However, I did take some exception with how we ultimately got to this moral conclusion; there is a scene where Lewis convinces pretty sorority girl Betty that he is her boyfriend Stan when he puts on a mask which means that Betty sleeps with Lewis (believing him to be Stan). After Lewis has slept with Betty, Lewis pulls off his mask and Betty then learns that it was Lewis that she slept with rather than Stan. Clearly she is mortified at first, but realising that he was a better lover than Stan she then decides she wants to be a nerd and remain with Lewis. Arguably, it would have been better if a nerdy girl would have been in love with Lewis, but Lewis shunned her advances because he fancied Betty only for Lewis to later discover that Betty was a shallow air head and hence Lewis ended up with the nerdy girl. That probably would have been a better direction for the film to take, but hey I can't change what has already been done... Taking everything into account, I get what the writers were trying to achieve here and I did like the whole 'pro-nerd' vibe, but I must admit to finding it slightly uncomfortable watching a nerd bed a girl under false pretences. I mean would what Lewis did to Betty be classed as rape? She consented to sex, but in the belief that she was sleeping with Stan rather than Lewis. It's just a bit morally iffy in my eyes...Revenge of the nerds has a good albeit predictable message, but truth be told the film is short on laughs, has no real character development and very little in the way of originality. I've actually enjoyed some of the more modern re-workings of Revenge of the nerds such as American Pie, but if you want some genuine old school frat-boy humour then you'd be better off watching Animal House.

KoalaPig Before anybody gets offended by the above summary, I just want to say that I like many things about America and its culture, conversely there are things I dislike. A lot of the latter were highlighted in the film "Revenge of the Nerds". Also, just to avoid the wrath of the blindly patriotic, I am by no means saying that other countries and cultures don't have their share of downfalls too.So, to back to the film… Due to its age, (30 years), one can possibly, (yet begrudgingly), forgive some of the casual racism and homophobia used to gain cheap laughs. However the film really hits rock bottom with its multiple scenes/sub-plots that show sexual abuse in an entirely positive light.There is a highly unlikely, yet possible, chance that the above could be overlooked if the film's humour compensated for the offensiveness, or if the rapey/homophobic/racist plot elements were done tongue in cheek – BUT THEY WEREN'T – in spite of what people might claim.Now-a-days I watch certain things, which I enjoy to various degrees, but make me yearn for my stoner days as I know my amusement would be amplified. ROTN does not even offer me this. I watched it as it is regarded as a "classic" and is referenced to in many other shows. In summation: I wish I hadn't bothered – 2/10.