This movie is easily Rodney's funniest in my opinion playing super rich Thornton Melon. He is married to a gold-diggin wife who he ditches and tries to make up with his son (who hates his step-mom) by surprising him with a unexpected college visit. Rodney finds out that his son, Jason, is about ready to quit college so he decides to enroll and help him get adjusted to college life by doing it with him. Ned Beatty is hilarious as "Dean" Martin, a college administrator who never met a rich donator he didn't love. Poorly educated but rich Rodney donates a ton of money as a bribe so he can be admitted, has a new school building named after him due to this "generosity" and several of the teachers have it out for him as a result. Sam Kinison is hilarious as a dedicated psychotic history teacher and Sally Kellerman is great playing Rodney's college love interest (as well as the college poetry teacher. There are plenty of hilarious moments in this film, especially when Rodney is scuba diving in his hot tub with several college beauties and asks on of them what her favorite subject is. "Poetry", she remarks. "Well, I bet you can straighten out my Longfellow", Rodney replies. There are other hilarious scenes, especially Sam Kinison's hilarious tirade about the Korean War as he tears up a chair and leaves a petrified student in tears on her lack of morals and conviction. The 1st time I saw this movie, I laughed myself into tears. This is easily Rodney's best movie and deserves a much higher rating than the 5.9 that your poll has given it. Good supporting cast, funny storyline from start to finish. For a comedy, easily a "9" out of 10. I felt obligated to come to this movie's defense when I saw the mediocre rating that you "experts" gave it. This 5.9 rating is further proof that Rodney gets "no respect".
Review of Back to School
