Fantastic!

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

A sort of comedic companion to American Graffiti, this movie saw its popularity blossom when it was first aired on cable TV in 1982, two years after its theatrical release. Along with Porky's, the film helped to usher in a golden age for the raunchy teenage sex comedy, and it's a classic in the genre for sure. Additionally, Fran Drescher and Michelle Pfeiffer both looked amazing in this film, but I've always been more of a Drescher kinda guy. Also, one of the greatest Punk bands EVER took their name from the movie's notorious character, Newbomb Turk. Sadly, the New Bomb Turks are currently defunct, but they ROCKED, as well as having a sense of humor that matched Robert Wuhl's character in the movie. See the film...hear the band!

...of the better films that came before it.I first heard of this movie in 1984 when cable TV was really coming into its own and a buddy of mine tried to describe the "Volare" singing scene but couldn't get through it without cracking up...guess it was the times..the anything goes 80's.Years later I was surfing the internet and came across some glowing reviews(like many of the ones appearing here)and after finding out that the same guy who was behind "American Hot Wax"( a film I saw on cable and liked )was behind this I thought I'd give it a shot.What a disappointment...a series of low brow gags frenetically paced and interspersed with some attempts at seriousness ( Jimmy Shine's impending departure to Nam )and romance ( the Tony Danza/Michelle Pfeiffer "breakup")...scenes that have a contrived,tacked-on feel as if they came from some other undeveloped project.Its as if the writer director Floyd Mutrux couldn't decide what kind of movie he wanted to make so he just threw this up on the wall to see if any of it stuck.. and based on the comments of many viewers here it sticks just fine.While not a total waste ( afterall... I'd probably watch film footage of Michelle Pfeiffer polishing furniture...and the cars are cool)this film is just way too derivative of the territory mined by George Lucas 7 years previous with "American Graffiti" and John Landis 2 years previous with "Animal House"...Mutrux gives nothing new to the formula other than swinging much wider with the smutty style of humor that the passage of a couple of years time has allowed. What pains me is the comments of those who regard this as some sort of masterpiece of comedic nostalgia that puts the aforementioned Lucas/Landis projects to shame ...this film may be a suitable time capsule for your recollections of 1965 as filtered through "Porky's"-tinted glasses but you folks really need to gain some perspective before you diss "Graffiti"...George Lucas practically invented the genre that Mutrux is exploiting here...I know cause I remember being a kid in the early 60's and facing Vietnam while leaving high school...and in 1973 "Graffiti" was such a welcome voyage back to a more secure and innocent past that only two films that year drew a bigger audience..."The Sting" and "The Exorcist" and Lucas achieved that with a pittance in funding compared to the other two yet garnered several Academy Award nominations...including Best Picture.And he pretty much invented the use of a period music soundtrack to achieve realism..a technique that has been copied in addition to the use of multiple story lines occurring simultaneously that are both commonplace today.The epilogue ending with the "where are they now"?character cards was totally original and a real jolt at the time..a sucker punch that fortold of things to come and was effectively stood on its ear by Landis in his closing in "Animal House" . "Graffiti"'s success ushered in the whole nostalgia craze that set in during the post-Vietnam era...and all the lame exploitations to follow ..such as "Happy Days"...and this forgettable epic.

You'll find this movie more enjoyable if you were lucky enough to be the same age as the movie setting. The pranks played by that generation were ones that were funny and not meant to hurt anyone. Not like the morbid ones kids play today where they are meant to cause harm. For a now graying gear head the top billing of the movie has to go to all the vehicles. It's a dam shame what the auto industry puts out today. They've lost all the distinctive beauty and class like the ones shown in this movie. And not to forget the sound and feel of horsepower hiding under the hood. As to the parts of the movie that make you warm inside, they are all well done in concerns of love and war as well as the bonding between friends. I've enjoyed watching this movie over and over again. At my age a movie like this one brings back the feelings of being young again and a desire to turn back the hands of time to the good times with good friends, good music and hot rods.

American Graffitti became a classic because of it delved into issues of high school graduation, the Vietnam War, and moving on from your roots and comfort in a small California town in the early 1960's. The Hollywood Knights (HK), in many ways, examines similar issues at a similar time except it departs any semblance of maturity and seriousness.HK touches all the silliness a film can muster yet the cast here pulls it off in a fun way. The situation is this...we're in Beverly Hills, CA. in the mid sixties and Tubby's Drive-In, the local hang out for teens, is closing its doors for good when it closes that night. The members of the "gang" Hollywood Knights are determined to cram into one night all the pranks and mayhem they can. Their ringleader is Newbomb Turk, played wonderfully by Robert Wuhl long before he created the character of ARLI$$ for HBO.You'll get to see some very notable actors and actresses here. Following in the fine tradition of real Hollywood a movie such as this tends to bring to the public some terrific future talent. Among the people you'll recognize are Michelle Pheiffer, Tony Danza, and Fran Drescher. Danza had already been discovered as a boxer turned cab driver in the great TV series "TAXI". Pheiffer is so young and beautiful here that it is easy to see the star potential movie makers saw in her. Drescher, shortly before developing her signature role as "The Nanny" for TV, plays her role with the same nasal Brooklyn charm that made her endearing to audiences.One final note about HK...some of the scenes are slapstick funny. As in Animal House this movie will have you remembering pranks you tried and moronic silly things you laughed at yet it will take you back, I'm betting, in a good way.