I really hate 80’s teen movies truth be told (it was bad enough actually BEING a teenager in the 80’s without watching a bunch of movies about it). This movie though is almost an unintentional parody of 80’s teen movies, and it’s SO dumb it completely short-circuited my brain and left me with a vague feeling of being slightly entertained. Despite the title, this is not a blatant rip-off of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”–no, instead it’s a blatant rip-off of “The Breakfast Club” and “Revenge of the Nerds”. Three guys–a nerd, a jock (and dead ringer for Emilio Estevez) and a tough guy (who looks way too old to be in high school)–meet in detention, where two of them have been sent for spying on girls in the shower. They improbably become friends and band together to rescue the girlfriend of the jock (Kim Valentine) from some drug dealers.

Kim Valentine (from “Grandma’s House”) plays the stereotypical girl-next-door, while an even more obscure actress (the one on the poster) named Kim Anderson plays the sex bomb. Of course, Valentine is hardly plain-looking, while Anderson is a plastic-surgery disaster (albeit a sexy one) who looks like she should be camped out in the lobby of a hotel where Motley Crue is staying. (Although there’s actually not nearly as much nudity as you’d expect in one of these films). And fulfilling the washed-up star quota we have Troy Donahue playing the principal.

This movie has apparently only been available on video in Australia and (in a cut version) on the TBS television station in America. Strangely though, it’s been released again more recently on DVD as a “drive-in” triple feature with the 70’s flick “Pickup Summer” and a Corey Feldman/Haim movie that’s best not spoken of. Only one of these no doubt actually ever played at a drive-in, but oh well. . .