That was an excellent one.

Nice effects though.

A lot of fun.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Oh man, Revenge Of The Nerds is one of my favorite 80's comedies and as such this holds up well and is still funny many years later. Growing up as an outsider and hating the jocks and cheerleaders, I found the material easily relatable being outside of the status quo as metal/ punk kid. Not exactly a nerd, I sucked at academics, but I was an underdog that gave society the finger(with a big smile on my face). This is a film that shows what it is like to be an underdog and as such I can empathize with the plight of our likeable and unlikely heroes. This holds up well due to having memorable characters and hilarious quotable dialouge. The movie is very unhinged and wild with large doses of t+a, these nerds can surely party and are seen as a threat by football players, The Alpha Betas. As off the wall as the material is this is well written, directed and performed. Revenge Of The Nerds would become a franchise with one more feature film and a few made for television movies, the sequel ROTN 2 Nerds In Paradise is classic as well and the made for tv sequels are entertaining, but none of them are as good as the 1st film. Classic 80's comedy, Revenge Of The Nerds rock!

Lewis (Robert Carradine) and Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) are sent to Adams College and quickly find themselves as outcasts due to the fact that they are 'nerds.' After being constantly bullied by the Alpha Betas or Jocks as they are otherwise known, the nerds set about getting revenge against the Jocks.So that's your basic plot line and there is no point in attempting to elaborate further as there is nothing much more that I can say beyond my basic plot summary. You essentially have the social outcasts against the popular 'sporty' types who only clash when the jocks own digs end up being burned down.What essentially follows from this point is a series of tiresome and unfunny sequences involving attempted 'one upmanship' between the two rival camps all of which have no real spark or imagination. It's also a very lazy film which felt as though it had ripped off almost everything that we'd seen before in Animal House (only to much lesser effect). Whereas Animal House was gross-out and overdone, it was at least quite amusing, but this film barely registered a chuckle with me.I also found some of the writing to be somewhat inconsistent; on the one hand it suggests at the end that you should just be happy with yourself and stand up for who you are (which is fine). However, I did take some exception with how we ultimately got to this moral conclusion; there is a scene where Lewis convinces pretty sorority girl Betty that he is her boyfriend Stan when he puts on a mask which means that Betty sleeps with Lewis (believing him to be Stan). After Lewis has slept with Betty, Lewis pulls off his mask and Betty then learns that it was Lewis that she slept with rather than Stan. Clearly she is mortified at first, but realising that he was a better lover than Stan she then decides she wants to be a nerd and remain with Lewis. Arguably, it would have been better if a nerdy girl would have been in love with Lewis, but Lewis shunned her advances because he fancied Betty only for Lewis to later discover that Betty was a shallow air head and hence Lewis ended up with the nerdy girl. That probably would have been a better direction for the film to take, but hey I can't change what has already been done... Taking everything into account, I get what the writers were trying to achieve here and I did like the whole 'pro-nerd' vibe, but I must admit to finding it slightly uncomfortable watching a nerd bed a girl under false pretences. I mean would what Lewis did to Betty be classed as rape? She consented to sex, but in the belief that she was sleeping with Stan rather than Lewis. It's just a bit morally iffy in my eyes...Revenge of the nerds has a good albeit predictable message, but truth be told the film is short on laughs, has no real character development and very little in the way of originality. I've actually enjoyed some of the more modern re-workings of Revenge of the nerds such as American Pie, but if you want some genuine old school frat-boy humour then you'd be better off watching Animal House.

In 1984's "Revenge of the Nerds" a group of social outcasts at Adams College are persecuted by fraternities of jocks and popular girls. To defend themselves they form their own fraternity and use their brains to outwit their enemies."Revenge" is over three decades old now and has formulated a decent reputation, as far as school/college comedies go. The film works because it's amusing enough and -- despite the youthful inanities and occasional raunch -- the viewer starts to care about the outcasts and their cause; we celebrate when they have a victory over the pompous crowd. There's some nudity so stay away if that turns you off.The film runs 90 minutes and was shot in Tucson, Arizona.GRADE: B

It has been 30 years ,since the movie has released and it shows. This movie feels like a 1980s movie in each and every way.And the fact that since that since the emergence of The Big Bang Theory and Joss Whedon, nerds have become a part of mainstream. Thus, the movie shows how much time has changed. Despite these facts, the movie has aged very well.For a guy who was not present in 1980s and watched for the first time in 2014, I must say that movie has aged pretty well.After "Animal House" became a hit in 1978, many R-rated sex comedy came in 1980s like Porky, Risky Business and Fast Times At Ridgemont High. They were quite funny, but sometimes they took themselves seriously at a time. Seriousness worked flawlessly in Risky Business, but it felt mismatched in Porky and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. This is not the case here. Sure it has all the typical T&A Teen Sex Gross-out ingredient like sex jokes, men peeking at naked girls, drugs, booze, partying, F- word, toilet humor and of course gratuitous frontal nudity,but the fact that movie never takes itself seriously sets it apart. The director of movie knew he was not making another "The Graduate", but a very stupid comedy and he did not hide this fact with serious topics like racism(Porky) or abortion(Fast Times).The plot is very simple and you can guess from it's title. The title clearly specifies that nerds take revenge from jocks. Nerd represent nerd and jocks represent jocks. Nothing symbolic here. One of the best thing about movie is it 's character. Just like the film itself characters are slapstick and cartoonish. For e.g.; there is a character named Ogre, who behaves like Marvel superhero Hulk. Only difference is that Hulk is green skinned and has more hair. But the character that steals the show here is Booger. His role here is to be disgusting. Be it burping,eating dirty things or as you can guess from his name taking out his booger ! Booger is played by same guy who played Tom Cruise 's best friend in Risky Business and gave what the f--- speech.The movie is often accused of it's misogyny, but I am at movie 's defense here since a) movie is equal offender. It offends every one . Be it male or female,nerds or jocks, gays or rebels. b)girls were also nasty towards "nerds" and thus nerds had lame excuse to take revenge and c) it was 1980s. It was in trend for movie of similar genre to be sexist. At least it is not MASH.