Class of 1999 is a type of futuristic movie about what schools will eventually come to, it's funny has interesting characters and great antagonists. The plot is set in the future where the schools in america have been taken over by gangs and the government who are at a loss decide that robotic teachers are the answer. Meanwhile just out of prison Cody Culp (Bradley Gregg) has renounced his gang with which his two brothers are a part of. When the teachers turn dangerous Cody gets suspicious and decides to investigate. To say the least the end is all out war.Pam Grier, Patrick Kilpatrick and John P Ryan play the teachers gone wrong. Also a good if yet short performance from Malcolm Mcdowell and Stacy Keach as Dr. Bob Forrest.

The setup: Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot. The teachers do a good job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far and some students get suspicious.The verdict: It is plagued by plot holes and inane dialog. Actually, the movie itself is nothing that special, but it has some good stuff. It is a pretty unnecessary film. If you are looking for a good movie with good acting this might not be for you. While this isn't a great film by any means, it is entertaining. It is difficult to watch and has no shortage of abuse and neglect.

Mark L. Lester's follow-up to the nutty thriller Class of 1984 outcrazies it by quite a distance. Class of 1999 is a sci-fi thriller set in a high school that has been completely taken over by gangs. The principal (Malcolm McDowell) hires a government contractor (Stacy Keach, sporting bizarre, silver-irised contact lenses and a crazy white hairdo with a rat tail) to replace some of his teachers with cyborgs to keep the students in line. These cyborgs (played by Pam Grier, Patrick Kilpatrick and John P. Ryan) have about the worst programming imaginable. On the first day they beat the students down (Ryan has the film's most memorable scene, administering spankings to two of the students). On the second day they start murdering them. Cory Feldman lookalike Bradley Gregg plays the hero, a boy trying to go straight after serving a prison sentence for gang activity. When the cyborgs start murdering his buddies, he rejoins the gang to take them down. This is pure Velveeta - absolute B movie gold. Ryan is the stand-out of the cast. He's just hilarious as the pipe smoking robo-teacher. Keach has some great moments, too. There's one scene where he eats a banana - no one can not look like an idiot while eating a banana, and the image immediately, before the movie even ended, became my new Facebook avatar. Joshua Miller, so memorable in the vampire flick Near Dark, also appears. So many great moments, lines, hilarious bits of production design. This is one of the all-time great pieces of garbage.

It was a dreadful Sunday evening. I was in a really bad mood; recovering from a horrible case of weekend hangover with a heavily upset stomach and struggling with a lack of sleep. I put my borrowed copy of "Class of 1999" in the VCR, but was pretty much convinced already there wasn't any movie that would succeed in holding my attention at that point. I was wrong. "Class of 1999" literally re-charged my batteries and managed to make me end my weekend with a huge sardonic grin on my face. Moral of this seemingly irrelevant and pointless personal story: we could ALL use a completely senseless and over-the-top grotesque movie about homicidal robot teachers from time to time! This movie, in spite of being an assembly of recycled ideas and qualifying as utterly dumb, is so much fun and offers such a giant amount of cheesy gore effects that I can't possibly imagine anyone hating it. The premise can't be taken too seriously and there are plentiful of obvious tongue-in-cheek elements (like the deliberately absurd performances from a solid B-movie cast), so the way I figure is that you can't but sit back and enjoy this early 90's hodgepodge of Sci-Fi/horror. The film is listed as a sequel to "Class of 1984", but apart from the futuristic high-school setting and the fact they were both directed by Mark L. Lester, the two have very little in common. I even strongly suspect that the reminiscent "Class of …" title is only there for slick marketing purposes. The original 1982 cult-classic dealt with teachers standing up against the ever increasing power of youthful gangs, but in this film the youthful thugs have to fight for their lives against android teachers! The year's 1999 – duh – and the US pretty much looks like John Carpenter already imagined it in "Escape from NY", meaning certain areas are off-limits for the police and you enter at your own risk. Kennedy High is located in the middle of such an area and it's needless to say that education is the least of their concern. The Razorheads are busy fighting their gang war against the Blackhearts when suddenly three brand new teachers make their entry. We immediately know they are cyborgs, bought by principal Malcolm McDowell from a hi-tech company run by Stacy Keach, but obviously the students don't. Minor little problem is that the robots were initially designed to military purposes, so they tend to confuse discipline with cold-blooded murder. The thugs will have to put their territorial gang conflicts aside for a moment and combine forces against robots with super strength! And one of them is Blaxploitation heroine Pam Grier, so they're screwed! "Class of 1999" is a wondrously bonkers piece of exploitation trash with cartoon-like violence and numerous sequences that look oddly similar to legendary moments of other 80's classics, like "The Terminator" and "Robocop". The cyborg effects are sublime and the dialogs are delightfully banal, but especially the cast is the main reason why this flick has CULT written all over it! Stacy Keach is sublime as the exaggeratedly eccentric robot-father, complete with dyed white hair and goofy contact lenses. Apart from the aforementioned Malcolm McDowell ("A Clockwork Orange") and Pam Grier ("Coffy"), "Class of 1999" also stars familiar cult faces John P. Ryan ("It's Alive"), Patrick Kilpatrick ("Under Siege 2") and Joshua Miller ("River's Edge").