Two street peddlers, Jack and Barney, arrive in Florida looking for a better and wealthy lifestyle, when Jack falls for Olivia, a young heiress running a shelter for orphaned children which is threatened with closure. Jack enrols both of them at a finishing school to learn the manners of the upper classes in order to fit in and hope Oliva's uncle will approve of Jack wanting her and help her obtain an inheritance to save the orphanage....I'm really surprised that there is so much love for this movie, I was expecting something way ahead of its time, but no, I got a forgettable film from the eighties.But maybe its my fault. If I had saw it around the time I was fifteen, I might be on of those stating its one of the greatest comedies ever made.Maybe if is not seen superior movies in this sub genre like, Dumb and Dumber, Wayne's World, Bill and Ted, even Night at the Roxbury, I might state the above too.But I really much doubt that.Even though it precedes the above movie by many years, the plot and the narrative is as old as the hills. Its a class war, the rich win because they are rich, but in the end get usurped by the street urchins, because they have all the best jokes and are helped by Denholm Elliott (the best thing in this movie).Toward the beginning of the final third, the titular characters get into some peril, but predictable as ever, everything comes up whoopee in the end.Its not funny, the jokes are puerile, and the leads are not very endearing, or in other words, if you don't care for the leads, how can you care about the film.Another film I missed in my youth, which I probably would have loved when I was a teenWhich isn't really saying much....

Y'know, I find it amazing...So many obscene-budget movies nowadays offer so little and deliver even less. Weak story lines, poor dialogue, and no originality... Then we have The Whoopee Boys. Like great Bugs Bunny episodes, I could watch this thing over and over and over (and I have). On the outside, it doesn't look like much, doesn't cast massive stars, but it delivers in so many intricate comedy-in-your-face ways. O'Keefe and Rodriguez play off each other perfectly. It's not that I roll on the floor laughing (well, maybe in some parts), but that I laugh on the inside, emit the odd guttural snicker, and I feel good after seeing it. There aren't very many movies that do that. For example, I just finished watching a couple of bombs: Crazy on the Outside (Tim Allen) and Fantastic Mr. Fox. TERRIBLE - don't see them. Yet here we have this innocent film made over twenty years ago that takes you by storm and engulfs you before you know what hits you.

My brother and I in 1987 we sacking out in the living room and this movie came on Showtime. I watched it again in 1994 with a friend. Its got a simple story line, but the characters are OUT OF THIS WORLD FUNNY. Two guys head to Florida, meet a hot woman and need to go to this institute in the everglades to learn manners to save a children's school. I mean how dumb right, the sound track gets you motivated to keep watching. When They arrive at the institute they run into the Butler and the humor blasts off with the name of the butler and Paul Rodriquez's response!!! The first night of "gentlemen school" the funniest scene ever is the dinner scene. I friggin watched this movie about ten times, and every time the dinner scene floors me. Crude stupid simple low brow cracks. This is my favorite comedy of all time. And the weird Lacrosse type game at the end. I really don't understand why more peeps don't go bonkers for this film. funny, funny funny. Another movie like this is "Young Doctors in Love", "80s"

One of, if not the, funniest movies I've ever seen. The downside is the humor is rude, uncooth, foul-mouthed, nasty, sexual innuendos, stupid and just plain idiotic!! Guaranteed to make anybody laugh if they can stomach it. 8 pts.