Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site trwspp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!hull From: hull@trwspp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Revenge of the Nerds (spoiler) Message-ID: <538@trwspp.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 22:16:46 EDT Article-I.D.: trwspp.538 Posted: Mon Aug 6 22:16:46 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 03:48:55 EDT References: <559@sri-arpa.UUCP> <176@mhuxm.UUCP> Organization: T R W, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 20 If you don't mind another extremely stereotyped view of the "nerd," _Revenge of the Nerds_ is a pretty funny movie. You know what I'm talking about -- old-style glasses, shirt hanging out, calculator on the belt. It's a lot like _Animal House_ in it's extremely unrealistic view of life at college. The movie starts out with two guys (Gilbert and Louis) arriving for their first year of college. Not long after that, the jock fraternity burns down its house, and manages to convince the dean that it should get to stay in the on-campus housing instead of the imcoming freshmen. The freshmen have to stay in the gym for a while. Pretty soon though, every- one but outcasts have been picked into fraternities. So what do the outcasts do? They find a house and try to start their own fraternity.... Everything that happens is pretty predictable, and there are a couple of pretty obnoxious stereotypes (Lamaar, the homosexual; Booger, the John Belushi (sp?) type; ...) but I enjoyed myself. It was certainly better than _Cloak and Dagger_ which I saw at the same time in a "special sneak preview." I would give it a 5 out of 10. trwspp!hull David Hull