Grad student Leon recruits five captains to form teams to compete in "The Great All-Nighter" where they solve clues to go on the road. Yellow leader Adam Larson (David Naughton) is a nice guy. Blue leader Harold (Stephen Furst) is a lazy slob. Red leader Donna has her sisters from an unpopular sorority. Wesley (Eddie Deezen) leads the nerdy White team. Lavitas leads the offensive line on the Green team. Every one of them laugh off Leon at first but they are all pushed into the game.This is Disney doing its silly family fares. It tries to incorporate college but only with the cleanest of smiling family fun and tamest of raunchy sex comedy. It's kind of sad and a bit campy. In addition to a couple of early 80's stars, Michael J. Fox has a minor role. It's bad acting, bad slapstick, and bad writing. It's so bad that it does have some camp value. Unless one sees the camp value, there is nothing funny and it's ultimately boring.

This movie is mind-numbingly awful, it makes you wonder how it's possible that people actually got paid for doing this, it's that bad. The story makes no sense, the actors seem to be doing a bad job on purpose, not to mention that it is as cheesy as can be (and not in a good way).I remember watching this as a kid and decided to watch it just for the nostalgia (knowing it would not be a good movie), but wow, I wasn't expecting it to be THIS bad.You will cringe every time you hear those fat twins laugh, makes you want to put a fist through the TV.The only thing noteworthy is that you can see Michael J Fox and Pee Wee Herman before they were famous, it's amazing that this steaming pile of movie s**t didn't end their careers.

Somewhere in the dark recesses of my brain cells a song plays in my head. I can't forget it no matter how hard I try. It's MIDNIGHT MADNESS and it's gonna get to you! Wish i could find a copy of this on a 45rpm record. Five disparate teams head out one night in L.A. for a scavenger hunt for clues instead of physical objects. An unkempt game-master with two gorgeous assistants is the mastermind of all this insanity that's about to be unleashed on L.A. All the teams are stereotypes (this movie being from 1980, before political correctness screwed everything up): the "good guys", the "nerds" led by Eddie Deezen, the dumb beer-loving "jocks", the "we-don't-need-a-man-type ladies", especially the redhead. The giggling twins are a scream, too. And finally, the "bad guys" with Stephen Furst as the leader. Furst is hilarious as the overweight slob Harold, whose attempt to use a computer to decipher the various clues leads to a gooey mess. Movies like this aren't made anymore. These days, movies have to have an "edginess" to them with some dark characters and other nonsense. Go back to the days when the "good guys" led by David Naughton were still good and not hopelessly conflicted. So dump all serious pretensions and go back to 1980. It's MIDNIGHT MADNESS . . .

"Animal House"-styled mess concerning five groups of college-aged kids going on a scavenger hunt across the city. There are the nerds, the girls, the boys, the rich kids and the poor kids (led by David Naughton and a very young Michael J. Fox, in his first film). The greatest rivalry comes between the rich snobs and the working-class group that has nothing given to them easily. Really a rotten drag is the best way to describe "Midnight Madness". It is appropriate for all audiences, but really who would be bored enough to watch this? 2 stars out of 5.