Back to School [VHS]

Back to School [VHS]
by Alan Metter

Back to School [VHS]

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Actor: Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman
Director: Alan Metter
Writer: Rodney Dangerfield
Writer: Dennis Snee
Writer: Greg Fields
Writer: Harold Ramis
Writer: Peter Torokvei
Writer: Rich Eustis
Writer: Steven Kampmann
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 96 minutes
Release Date: 2001-05-15
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Good Times Video
Studio: Good Times Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Back to School [VHS]

Movie Review: John in San Diego
Summary: 5 Stars

As usual, Amazon. Com and it's associated vendors provided outstanding, prompt service. I received this feature under the stated shipping arrival time, and the product quality was outstanding.

Movie Review: Great comedy
Summary: 5 Stars

This is Rodney Dangerfield at his best. There are good contributions from a number of other actors and a funny appearance by Sam Kinison, but Dangerfield is the star. I cannot too highly recommend Back to School--you can even watch it over and over. One of the funniest comedies I've ever watched.

Movie Review: Back to school is almost back to the past
Summary: 4 Stars

Not so fine as in first time I saw it when I was 17 years old. I think it was most exciting due as teen, I feel the same about parents, now many years after I don't agree in all.
This picture is suitable for a relaxed sunday afternoon, it is funny and you can have a good time.
If you look for a state-of-art film... your are in the wrong place.

Movie Review: rodney dangerfield
Summary: 5 Stars

i just love rodney dangerfield!!! i've seen this movie several times but never on dvd. my son is a junior in college and i just had to get it for him. also with this dvd you get extra bonus features which you don't get if you have just the vhs from long ago!!!

Movie Review: Finally Rodney Dangerfield's Greatest Film Gets The Respect It Deserves.
Summary: 5 Stars

What would comedy be without Rodney Dangerfield? After decades of trying to make it big, took his self-depreciating stand-up act of one-liners to new heights in the 1980's & paved the way for thousands of a new generation of comics to do the same. Eventually Hollywood called, and after a noticable bit part (Caddyshack) and a middle-of-the-road starring piece (Easy Money), it was time for Rodney to get the respect he always deserved with what now most consider his greatest film, 1986's Back To School.

Playing Thornton Melon, a successful clothing chain owner, he decides to join his college-going son by enrolling himself, having a grand ole party and fun every step of the way. This was a role tailor made for Dangerfield, and still after all these years is as funny and fresh as ever. However, MGM first released this film in 2000 with a bare-bones edition that at the most would earn it a D+. So seven years later, it now has been given an "Extracurricular Edition" that for the most part makes the grade.

First off, the picture has been completely cleaned-up, barely a blemish or speck to be seen all the while with still keeping it's '80's film look. 2000's included a new 5.1 audio mix but now offers the original 2.0 as well for purists. But the main reason to double-dip would be the brand-new-to-DVD extras that fill most of it's second layer. Ranging from 5 to 18 minutes each, there's six new featurettes here discussing the making of the movie, to the styles of the film's signature dive "The Triple Lindy", to a very thoughtful looking back of the life of Rodney Dangerfield as told by those who knew him personally (Rodney passed before this version came out in 2004). Each new feature is entertaining, informative and quite a trip to see some of it's actors & crew today, like Harold Ramis, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young (with even a feature about his rise in acting from Rocky to BTS), 80's Blond-Haired Bad Boy William Zabka (yeah, he talks about his career typecasting here...finally!), and as Rodney's son Keith Gordon (wow, he really looks different now!). These are worth the double-dip alone besides the great presentation of the movie it belongs to. Of course it would have been nice to have a commentary track with these people and more stock footage of maybe Rodney himself being interviewed during the time of the film, but MGM did do a pretty good job here and what we got should do quite nicely.

Back To School unfortunately did such a good job for Rodney, that he never made another comedy that came close to it in his career again (No, Natural Born Killers doesn't count...put down that Little Nicky case too). But he'll always be remembered in film history as the funniest, oldest college freshman ever. A great look back at what fun we had at the movies in the 1980's and at a man that always received our respect no matter how many times he said he didn't.
(RedSabbath Rating:9.0/10)

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Summary of Back to School [VHS]

In the mid-1980s, standup comic Rodney Dangerfield underwent a renewed wave of popularity, finding a surprisingly enthusiastic baby-boomer audience. What else to do but make a movie that shows off Dangerfield's alternately knowing and boorish humor? This may not be on the AFI list of great films, but it delivers laughs aplenty in its story of a rough-edged tycoon who made his fortune in clothes for the stout and tall and decides to attend college in order to be closer to his son (Keith Gordon). There's not much plot, but lots of room for Dangerfield's one-line riffs. The goggle-eyed comic veteran displays surprising charm, enough to make his romance with professor Sally Kellerman believable. Look for cameos by late comedian Sam Kinison and author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. --Marshall Fine

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