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While the timing for this disc still seems weird, it is a fun film that holds up pretty well as an example of early 1980’s comedy.Betty is a cheerleader and head of the Pi Delta Pi's. The non-technically demanding look of the film benefits from a new release, especially if your recent experience has been a washed-out and edited version on Comedy Central. They also seem to sit and watch the action for quite awhile at times, but Kanew does have a lot of interesting comments, especially about what was in the original script compared to the final film. There are lots of reminiscing about the shoot and appreciation for the work of the other actors. Kanew, Caradine, Armstrong, and Busfield provide an audio commentary that picks up where the featurette leaves off. Robbie Rist plays the character of Booger, but you probably remember him as the much-maligned Cousin Oliver on the final year of “The Brady Bunch.” I couldn’t find any additional info about a TV show spin-off, so it looks like this show was never picked-up. It does give a view of one of the unsung acting talents of this or any generation. The show itself isn’t great, although it certainly doesn’t seem worse than “The Facts of Life” or “Different Strokes” or any other show on television in the mid-1980’s.
REVENGE OF THE NERDS TV PILOT FULL
There is also a full pilot for a planned “Revenge of the Nerds” television show. In addition to the featurette, the disc includes a trailer, the trailer for the one theatrical released sequel (the other two were TV movies), and six deleted scenes.
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REVENGE OF THE NERDS TV PILOT MOVIE
Caradine says the movie would probably be a PG-13 these days until Armstrong notes that his character says the “f word” about 30 times and there is full frontal nudity. Kanew states that he almost didn’t get the assignment until he told the studio that he would make a movie “that I’d be ashamed to put my name on.” Scott seems determined that despite his characters predilection, he spent as much time as he could nailing co-eds, giving the camera a significant look as if to say “I’m sure NOT gay!” While all the participants reveal a lot about what went on during the location shoot at the University of Arizona, it sounds at times like no one has watched the movie in awhile. The information provided in the featurette is pretty substantial. It all comes across as pretty funny and the affection shown by the characters to each other (they are pretty accepting of anyone, in contrast to the campus elite) keeps everything from being mean-spirited. The one Asian character wouldn’t be out of place in one those WWII era Bugs Bunny shorts. Most have coke bottle glasses with tape in the middle. The gay guy is, as Homer Simpson would say, Faaaaaa-laaaaaaa-mmming. In 1984 teen comedies it was pretty acceptable to set up some very broad stereotypes. The movie doesn’t always work to the height of Animal House, but watching it in 2007 is in some ways a real time warp. Scott, and Timothy Busfield providing funny turns as their rag-tag band. Even though it’s not exactly original it works well with sympathetic performances by Robert Caradine and Anthony Edwards as the lead nerds, and Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Despite some comments by the director and actors to the contrary, Revenge of the Nerds follows a formula that even in 1984 was well developed lots of T&A, outrageous jokes and pranks, and a put-upon band of losers taking revenge against the upper-class/star athlete/beautiful people who have been putting them down for the entire movie.