Very well executed

Absolutely brilliant

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I love how this movie came together. Also, I can't ever imagine this film existing without Matheson. What we have here is a pleasantly surprising sex comedy like the Porky's, Hotdogs, Screwballs, etc. But this is genuinely good and better. It has a great title rock track. We have these bomb outs, Furst, Helberg, and Porky's Monahan, and Tim Matheson as legendary flunkie Bob Macgraw, who are thrown rewarding offers by their Dean, that's if they win this inter collegiate raft race. Finally persuaded by a little bit of shove, they get their raft in the water, but before the race, there's many laughs let me tell you, like Mcgraw's horny dog, where it's a bitchin' night, or when Matheson and the others woo Furst to get rid of the crap he's eating. He throws it out the window of the four wheel drive, where a poor motor cylist is blinded, lemon meringue pie, etc, and all, where Furst, the only witness, watches him go off the side of a cliff. Matheson then ask's him, "Don't you feel better". But as always in these races, we had adversaries, like another group of college guys, real arse..les, where one of their girlfriends, (beautiful blonde Runyon) has caught him red handed with another chick, he's teeth practically chewing on her bra. She then goes for Matheson, inflaming her ex, so you know this race is gonna be hell of a rocky one, which it is. I love it! An adventure and comedy with a different premise, and a nice scenery that I liked, some raft scenes beautifully shot, the prime one, where the raft goes down a waterfall, the river disrupted by a prior explosion from a gung ho nut, the leader of this military team, where a condo is even taken out, that was in the river's path. That leader, psycho di..head was a great written character attribute, I thought. And of course, each of his dirty stunts backfire, like mistakenly flattening his jeep with a boulder. But too we have the other group of slime buckets, who try and put a pin in Matheson's boy's sails, again and again, where Runyon and her girls end up merging with them and together they lash big at these pigs, where again, good surpasses evil. Up the Creek rises among many of the other sex comedies, may'be cause of it's originality or gags. But if you haven't seen this one, it was one of the eighties better ones, of his type. After all we have Matheson and the beautiful Runyon, and another bigger waterfall. And to spur the teams into action at the starting line, one girl flashes her t..ties too.

This movie is silly and campy and total '80s, but it's very entertaining and the soundtrack is completely amazing, featuring artists like Cheap Trick, Beach Boys and Ian Hunter among others. Like most campy '80s movies, this plot is predictable and the outcome is typical, but it's fun to watch the adventures of Bob McGraw and the gang. Tim Matheson plays a similar role to his Eric Straton character from Animal House. Ironically (and completely on purpose) the movie Van Wilder, featuring Ryan Reynolds, casts Tim Matheson as Van's uptight father. The irony is that Van Wilder is very similar to Bob McGraw from 20 years earlier. In Van Wilder, however, Matheson plays the exact opposite character.

Up the Creek is right up there with my most liked movies. I'm crying for a DVD. What kind of sense of humor doesn't think "Take no prisoners" wasn't funny when the gals are "going after It." The bazooka shooting at the noisy crow was funny. There is funny rolling over funny in this movie but maybe some of it is too sophisticated. Tim gets invited to Jenifer's room and after hellos she, lying on the bed in a loose robe says, "Why don't you slip into something more comfortable?" Tim retorts, "I didn't brig anything more comfortable." She says pouting, "Well, how about me?" That is not only funny it might also be the hottest line I have ever seen in a movie. Sparks are popping all over the place like the gal cheerleader producing interest in the bored stands. I don't take this movie seriously except in the sense it is seriously entertaining.

Why would somebody make a comedy movie that's not funny? Maybe they changed directors mid-stream, or there was a death among the principal technicians and someone else had to edit or whatever. But, this movie is just not funny; even though the script keeps telling you how side-splitting it is, and how you're enjoying it more than you did "Animal House" or "Porky's". Even worldly sophisticates like George Plimpton or Wm F. Buckley like slapstick, sophomoric sex jokes and watching drunk frat-boys being jerks as much as the next guy. We keep looking for some in this poorly-done piece of crap and are more disappointed than the first audience that saw "Plan 9 From Outer Space." The worst scene of the film sticks with me, two beautiful girls enter a nightclub full of elligible dudes and no other women (yes, the story is supposed to be about a whitewater-rafting trip!); they looks about feigning sexual hunger and one of them says "Take NO prisoners". Like the rest of this awful film: is that supposed to be funny? Or sexy? You just feel sorry for the actors, technicians and investors while you're miffed at the directors and producers.