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Revenge of the Nerds was described as "the ultimate nerd revenge fantasy" movie and what Louis says near the end is true: there are a lot more of us nerds than the beautiful people. This is what made it such an enjoyable movie.
Revenge of the nerds II could have had so many possibilities but was clearly delayed in production and hampered by the fact that most of the original cast seemed to have opted out for the second go-round. Anthony Edwards phoned in a cameo at the beginning. Three years after the first movie, he had already been in the popular movies "Top Gun" and "Gotcha," and probably did the cameo as a compromise.
Only Gilbert, Booger, Wormser, Lamar, and Poindexter are around for part two and the entire movie takes place in Fort Lauderdale spring break, where the boys attend a fraternity conference. Shockingly, only Ogre is around from the Alpha Betas this time.
Lots of predictably stupid yuks come from Poindexter's bottle bottom glasses and overall clumsiness and Booger's extreme lack of couth. Lamar and Wormser are mostly just "there" with Lamar glittering himself up more than he did in the first movie.
Of course the Alpha Betas manage to get the tri Lambs kicked out of their desirable hotel reservation and of course they end up at the only other hotel available, a horrendous, fallen-down fleabag. There is also a weird scene at a zoo park/bar.
The best part of the movie happens in the opening credits, where 38 Special plays a snappy tune "Take me back to paradise." From there it's all downhill, including some embarrassingly bad camera work for a major feature. In too many scenes there is a "proscenium arch" camera angle with no other cuts or edits, as if a college kid on an iPad filmed every scene in one take and said "editing? What's that?
As a sequel, it's almost fascinatingly bad but not really worth the trouble.
score 3/10
longcooljolie 11 December 2013
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3-8-2020 23:02:09