As a teenager in the early 80's and a college student in 1984, I thought I'd find a few amusing moments in this comedy. Nope. Only one, and that was in the opening scene for the elderly maid who brings Judd Nelson his breakfast in his disaster area of a huge bedroom, knocking previous dining trays on the floor so she can make room for the extremely heavy one she's carrying. From there, he is sent off to his father's alma matter, probably the only college that will take him, an ultra preppy ivy league school with some of the most obnoxious prigs outside of the adults in "Caddyshack". Nelson hires someone to basically due his studying for him, and turns the campus into his own private party house, complete with Andrew Dice Clay, about as funny as a keg party invaded by parents of the attendees.
There's nothing memorable about this film outside that promising start, and the mask wearing maid is ten times funnier than anything that follows her shuffling walk-on. Nelson and the ensemble of young actors are doomed by a horrible script that didn't even have a grasp of how to make a college age film funny. Gordon Jump as the head of the college is pompous but lacks the hysterical snobbery and scheming of John Vernon's Dean Wormer from "Animal House". I consider it a miracle that I made it through this film, but this is going on file with other wretched comedies evicted from my collection. However, it's instantly added to the worst five of 1984 and top ten of the most hideous comedies of the 1980's. A root canal with no pain killer is preferable to this.
There's nothing memorable about this film outside that promising start, and the mask wearing maid is ten times funnier than anything that follows her shuffling walk-on. Nelson and the ensemble of young actors are doomed by a horrible script that didn't even have a grasp of how to make a college age film funny. Gordon Jump as the head of the college is pompous but lacks the hysterical snobbery and scheming of John Vernon's Dean Wormer from "Animal House". I consider it a miracle that I made it through this film, but this is going on file with other wretched comedies evicted from my collection. However, it's instantly added to the worst five of 1984 and top ten of the most hideous comedies of the 1980's. A root canal with no pain killer is preferable to this.