I haven't seen OLD SCHOOL yet, so it's not on my list. However, here are a few (I'll keep the list short to give everyone a chance to participate):
* ANIMAL HOUSE (of course)
* KING FRAT (a great movie to see with your buddies at a midnight screening)
* HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS
* PORKY'S
* THE WANDERERS
* SIXTEEN CANDLES
* H.O.T.S.
And my favorite, which is more of a drama, and is certainly the best written, directed, acted, photographed, etc., of the bunch: AMERICAN GRAFFITI
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Breakfast Club
Fast Times at Rigdemont High
Funny though, IMO they don't stand that well seeing them 15 years later
- road trip
- bring it on (kirsten dunst and eliza dushku in cheerleading outfits... yummy)
- 10 things i hate about you
- varsity blues
Hollywood High is an amazing very obscure film.
I saw one with David Hasselhoff and these totally insane cheerleaders? It was really old. Totally over the top. They put drugs in the schools food. can't remember the title
King Frat was amazing "Holy s**t!!...fart contest!!"
I thought Not Another Teen Movie was 5 stars.
Couple more I can't remember, generally involving cheerleaders circa 1979-81
revenge of the cheerleaders was the hasselhoff movie
Would "Carrie" be considered a wacky high school movie?
Midnight Madness is a lesser known classic of the genre. I love it so much....wacky 1980's scaveneger hunts are top drawer.
How about Revenge of the Nerds 1 & 2? Awesome stuff right there, Booger is the man.
Nick
Im surprised that no one mentioned two HUGE classics
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Risky Business
Both are prime examplesz of excellent teenage mayhem!!!!
Dont forget American pIE SERIES, with the third coming out soon!!!!
I love that movie!
I just bought it on DVD.
I highly recommend picking this one up.
Best Buy has it on DVD for $10.
It has to be one of my all time favorite 80's movies!
Check it out!
There were also dozens of low budget movies like FRATERNITY VACATION, TOGA PARTY, and THE PARTY ANIMAL that tried to capitalize on (aka rip off) ANIMAL HOUSE.
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I was always partial to The Beach Girls myself.
"Now if we can just keep it from exploding!"
"It's a penis stretcher. Want to try it?"
"And from now on, stop playing with yourself!"
- "It is God!"
You guys are hitting most of the popular ones, but you're missing all the really lowbrow stuff. Take movies like JOCKS or PREPPIES or WIMPS. Then there's HAMBURGER. . . THE MOTION PICTURE, which takes the place at Busterburger University.
I have one of those 10 movies on 5 DVD's box sets called TOGA PARTY. It's a collection of exactly these cheap T&A comedies (and THE HARRAD EXPERIMENT, for some reason).
Of course, there's also any number of movies with the words "spring break" in the title. I have one movie from the 80's called COMPUTER BEACH PARTY. 80's computers, you gotta' love 'em. Speaking of which, JOYSTICKS would fit nicely here.
Anyway, I could go on and on about these crappy movies. If anybody is into indie comics, Sam Henderson (http://www.indyworld.com/whistle/), who does THE MAGIC WHISTLE, has pretty much nailed the teen comedy formula mercilessly into the ground. Check it out.
Wimps totally sucked!
Was Jessica Hahn in Beach Girls?
There's one with pizza delivery guys who are earning mney for a breakdancing competition or something
Does "American Vampire" count? It had teens, parents out of town, parties in the parents house, babes, vampires, Adam West as a surfer....
The Gidget movies (I've probably seen parts of them on Saturday afternoon movies), like Gidget, Gidget goes to Rome, Gidget goes down-sorry about the last one.
And the Annette Funicello (sp?) Beach Blanket movies.
If we are going with "Gidget," I have to suggest Psycho Beach Party. (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/psychobeach/)
Surprised there hasn't been a Back to the Beach thread
Teenage mahem, this could cover neraly every teen movie ever made from "My best friend is a vampire" and "Better off dead" to "the lost boys". umm?
Better Off Dead is easily the best of the bunch out of ALL of these!
Let's see: A school with a snow-covered mountain behind it on the seacoast so they can have BOTH a ski-team and a surf-team . . .
Over-the-top odd parents: Kim Darby & David Ogden-Stiers. Festive Aardvark costumes and jello-snorting . . .
Not high in nudity, but the insanity quotient beats anything else I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it, check it out & name a crazier one if you can!
peter johnson
Three words:
Up
The
Creek
Worth it for the charades scene alone.
Kirk
PRIVATE LESSONS
THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN
I always liked the end of HAMBURGER, where the restaurant gets demolished by bikers and by an "eating club" which features those giggling overweight twins [also in MIDNIGHT MADNESS.]
Can't believe no one mentioned Van Wilder. The cream filled long johns are bad enough(Thoses of you who have seen it know just what I mean)
Hey, we almost forgot the PINNACLE of bad teen or college hijinx movies:
MAD MAGAZINE PRESENTS: UP THE ACADEMY
I'd like to get my hands on THAT dvd when it gets released . . .
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