Certainly the best Rodney Dangerfield's comedy,every single moment your have a gag,in every comment,he really is factory of new ideas,improvising all the time,such line as "l love teachers","they are my nieces","what's world you live...Fantasy Island??" Rows of endless smart gags....even given a pizza to the monkeys...besides from some scenes are contrived like jumping in the swimming pool and few more,the casting are superb,mainly the young Robert Downey Jr,unfortunately this comedy didn't come out yet in Brazil.Resume First watch: 1989 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD-R / Rating: 7

I can not believe this one ranks higher in score than "Easy Money". To me that one is a lot funnier than this one, which has some good stuff within it, but it just runs to long and gets to sentimental near the end. The story has a successful business man who never went to school with a son in college. Well the son is not having a good time of it and wants to drop out, but his father does not want him to. Well the son says the father did not go so why should he and this spurs the father (played by Dangerfield) to go to the same college to prove a point. There are some funny things initially, but like a lot of comedies of this type it gets to sentimental at times, there are a few lags between the laughs and after a point you just wish it to be over. Dangerfield is mostly funny in this one, though he is at his best near the beginning of the movie while at a party thrown by his wife. A few good scenes when he is first going to college as I enjoyed his first meeting with Sam Kinneson as a professor. Like I said though this movie just seems to go on to long and they have to invent plot points to make the movie more serious than it need be. Sure some people may like this kind of thing, I am just not one of them though. So for me the movie was almost an even split making it not good, but not bad.

Blithely loud and vulgar self-made millionaire Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield in terrific lovably crass form) goes back to college to complete his education and help out his son Jason (a fine and likable turn by Keith Gordon). Thornton discovers that college is harder than it looks and must learn to be more responsible for his academic studies or he'll get expelled. Director Alan Metter, working from a bright and witty script co-written by Harold Ramis, keeps the pace hurtling along at a constant zippy rate, maintains a winningly wacky tone throughout, and, most of all, gives Dangerfield free reign to really strut his hilariously hearty and obnoxious stuff. The supporting cast are likewise on the money excellent and effective: Sally Kellerman as sexy and passionate English professor Dr. Diane Turner, Burt Young as Thornton's grubby, loyal chauffeur/bodyguard Lou, Robert Downey, Jr. as Jason's sarcastic misfit roommate buddy Derek, Paxton Whitehead as stuffy, pompous economics professor Dr. Phillip Barbay, Ned Beatty as the jolly, unprincipled Dean David Martin, Terry Farrell as the sweet, fetching Valerie Desmond, Sam Kinison as crazed, irate history Professor Terguson, William Zabka as mean, cocky frat jerk Chas, M. Emmet Walsh as nice guy diving Coach Turnbull, Severn Darden as the flaky Dr. Borozini, and Adrienne Barbeau as Thornton's shrewish adulterous second wife Vanessa. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has an amusing cameo as himself. Comic highlights include a wild barroom brawl, a rowdy frat bash (Oingo Boingo appear as themselves singing the great "Dead Man's Party"), and Thornton doing his famously dangerous Triple Lindy dive. Danny Elfman's jaunty score, Thomas E. Ackerman's slick cinematography, and the cool rock soundtrack are all up to speed. But it's Dangerfield who makes this picture such an always enjoyable and often sidesplitting treat to watch: The Rodman's obviously having a ball in a tailer-made lead role and brings a positively infectious sense of incredibly lively and zany fun to the whole film that's impossible to either resist or dislike. An absolute hoot.

You know how after eating at a Chinese buffet, no matter how much you eat you never get full? That's how I felt after watching this movie. There should have been more.Don't get me wrong, I don't want the movie to be longer - I want more jokes. This was a comedy, right? I think jokes are an important part of comedy.I have seen episodes of Lost with more comedic relief than this movie.I've seen Youtube videos that were better than this.It's hard to believe that such a talented writer as Harold Ramis of Caddyshack and National Lampoon's Vacation could have hatched this bad egg out of his mindgrapes.This would have been a great movie in Fantasyland.