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Great Movie
Summer School is by far one of my all-time favorite movies to watch. You can never get bored with it, I must have watched it 200 times or more. The movie is all about a high school gym teacher (Mark Harmon) Freddy Shoop who is forced to teach remedial English class in summer school to a group of social misfits. Shoop has no idea how to teach and instead of hitting the books, they hit the amusement parks, beaches, petting zoos, amongst other places. His students include: Chainsaw & Dave who are obssessed with horror movies and play pranks on the vice president. Larry who sleeps in class throughout the entire movie. Pam who has a crush on her teacher Mr. Shoop. Jerome Watkins who spends 9 weeks in the bathroom because his zipper got stuck! Allen Ekian who is your basic "geek/nerd". Ronda who is pregnant and doesn't know who the father is. Denise Green who is trying to get her drivers license but is a terrible driver to say the least! In order for Shoop to get his students to learn he has to bribe them! Chainsaw & Dave get to have a party at shoops house on the 4th of July, a ride to and from work, plus a in school screening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. Larry gets his own bed in the classroom. Pam "needs a place to stay" and gets to move in with Mr. Shoop. Mr. Shoop has to become Ronda's Lamoz coach. He has to give Denise driving lessons. And Mr. Shoop has to be Kevin's "tackling dummy" in case he makes it back on the football team. It's hard to explain in words how funny this movie is, you'll just have to see it for yourself!

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A Comedy That Works With a Soundtrack and Talent To Match.
Just like little Rob, Carl Reiner has the flair and knowhow of the eighties to produce well-working teen comedies which were an abundance in those years: (Sixteen Candles, The Allnighter, The Sure Thing and The Breakfast Club to name a few). Reiner uses the dramatic talents of Mark Harmon and turns his role into a perfect laugh, as a failed actor teaching a summer school class with no clue. The movie used to make me angry growing up when I had back-to-back summer school years in high school, because our teachers were nothing like Mark Harmon. Clueless about teaching, he takes the class of the classic stereotypes out on everyday field trips. At the same time he tries to grab the heart of a successful teacher (Kirstie Alley) who sees herself as above his intelligence and maturity. This scenerio sound familiar yet?...The difference is the movie uses acting and comedic talents rather than dogs answering phones and space aliens taking the SATs. 'Summer School' is a great fish-out-of-water movie for this teacher, who gets in trouble with a hard-nosed pricipal and is forced to make his students work instead of take trips at the end. But E.G. Daily is the biggest reason to watch and listen. As the voice of Nickelodeon's 'Rugrats' Tommy for the last ten years, she's a successful and cool actress who stared in this movie as well as many others in the eighties. She's also a great singer and songwriter who usually sang songs for the movies she played in, like this one. 'Summer School' is a really cool movie...and I wish they made this on DVD.

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The Single Funniest Movie Ever
'Summer School' is truly the funniest movie in the history of film. You've gotta get past the 1987 styles and fashion, but once u do that...this movie is the great. Dave, Chainsaw, the pregnant surfer...ahh, you gotta see it to know what I mean. A cinematic classic. Its about time it came out on DVD. Go buy it now.