Wow! Such a good movie.

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Marv needs money. His unemployed dad is so poor that he makes Marv give up half his last six bucks so they can both go on three-dollar dates. He's just lost his scholarship after getting caught writing a term paper for Betty, the prettiest (and only) girl in his class.And Betty herself has told him he doesn't stand a chance with her unless he can give her what she wants most: money, money, money. But Marv has mob ties and Marv knows where to find a million dollars cash.Firstly you'll recognize a number of character actors from days gone by in this movie. Pittman is supposed to be so poor he splits his last 6 bucks with his father to go on a double date. But meanwhile daddy has a nice suit and tie and doesn't and poverty doesn't stop him from finding chicks.The movie is thinly written and very much aimed at the baby boomers of the day. Is it good? Meh. Not great.Soon after this film, Pittman was at a Halloween party, left in his sport car and disappeared.It was nearly a full month before he was found inside his crashed car deep inside Benedict Canyon.Another Hollywood casualty. Frankly it wasn't such a loss. He's not such a great actor.

It's funny, but I can't believe this film has an overall score below 2.0!! That would seem to indicate that this is a truly awful film...yet I liked it despite its limitations and actually recommend you see it.The film is about a bright and seemingly nice young man named Marv. However, despite having excellent grades and a possible future in college, he is a lonely nerd---but the actor playing Marv is 27 years old--far too old to be playing a character who is supposed to be 17! If you can ignore this, what happens next is pretty interesting--even if his character occasionally acts too dumb--showing the writers really weren't that good despite some good story ideas. You see, Marv is supposed to be a genius--yet he also does MANY stupid things...too stupid! When Marv is inexplicably approached by a pretty classmate (Betty), he falls head over heels---as it's the first girl to take notice of him AND she's a hottie. However, Marv isn't aware that this girl is a devil! She really is NOT interested in him but wants to use him to help her to graduate--as without some help (or cheating) she won't graduate. Poor Marv--you really have to feel sorry for the schmuck. Well, at least that is until you see just how dopey this guy gets. You see, when he learns that Betty is using him, instead of getting angry, the sap wants to impress her--even though she obviously isn't worth it! Now despite how dumb his motivation is, I did like Marv's plan to win her back. When Marv accidentally learns that his boss is involved with buying and selling drugs, he also learns that there will be $1,000,000 in the company safe--and it's ripe for the picking. So, this teen(!) organizes a mini-gang and sets out to rip off the drug dealer. The rest of the film plays a lot like the merging of film noir AND a teenage romance! I loved how black the ending was--so violent and fatalistic...so gritty! It sure ended well and never bored me.

This movie is a solid 6 in my book. I watched it as an MST3K episode but could have easily been entertained by it on it's own. I like heist movies and as easily as I knew this one was doomed to failure, I actually was getting nervous for this guy. Throw in a very bad slut, so really stupid greasers (well I guess most greasers are really stupid), and the finishing touch is the safe-cracker with class who I'm pretty sure was the shyster in the Trouble With Tribbles episode of Star Trek (one of the best loved ST TOS episodes ever) and its definitely a 6 rated low budget noir. Hey, Beast of Yucca Flats an under 2 rated movie? Absolutely, but High School Big Shot deserves much higher. The MST3K treatment almost does it a disservice, almost. There are some pretty good one liners to use in this, the MST3K boys did miss some good really spot on jokes but they passed because they are so PC and hold back from things like gay cracks, like in the beginning when the greaser tucks Marv's shirt in his pants (maybe too close to home for them?). High School Big Shot, I rate 6 out of 10, if you like noir see it first without the commentary. As a MST3K episode its one of the above average episodes, comes with a funny bread salesman short before it.

drab morality tale about a high school kid who's pretty much the now-stereotypical nerd. He's smart, but has no friends, no social skills, and a lazy loser of a father who borrows money from HIM. A pretty girl hits on him(he should've known she wanted something-he's supposed to be smart, right?). She manipulates the poor desperate fool into writing her term paper on Shakespeare, which the teacher immediately knows she couldn't have written. He loses the girl(not that he ever really had her) the confidence of his teacher, and his college scholarship, all in one fell blow.Marv is so silly and desperate for love that he decides to rob some heroin dealers who are running the stuff through the warehouse he works at. Then maybe the trashy little slut will be impressed and want to marry him. Sad, really sad. Marv is such a pathetic dope(and pretty brainless, for a supposedly smart guy. I mean, trying to rob drug dealers? Has this kid got a screw loose?) that you stop feeling sorry for him and get the dreadful urge to kick him in the butt, instead.The girl, of course, tells her boyfriend about the robbery Marv boasted of to her, and talks him and his cronies into stealing the money from Marv and company. They try to do so, and in the process manage to shoot several people. The cops show up at the same time, and the idiot Marv is dragged away, a total disgrace forever. I know this thing was geared towards making teens behave themselves by showing them the consequences of bad behavior, but all it really illustrated was the consequences of stupid behavior. Which is the premature end of your film career, of course. Goodbye, Marv, we never really knew ya. And thank goodness for that.