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
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