A funnier than average entry in the ’80s sex-romp genre. As this is a Playboy Channel production, breasts are bared remarkably often, for no reason — yet there’s basically no sex, and the tone of the movie is actually lighthearted and tame (without the boobs, it’d be PG-13 for sure). The movie is concerned with the wacky hi-jinks and jokes that cluster around sex (a main plot point) — but not the sex itself. (This is interesting, considering that the director and some of the crew and cast — though none of the main characters — come from the porn world.) The sex jokes are of the recognizably Playboy variety — this isn’t a feminist film — but they’re actually pretty funny and “knowing,” and manage to avoid being cliched. See, for example, the three goofy preppy guys lying in separate beds in the same room, bombastically fantasizing aloud and getting more and more rile up… And the two preppy girlfriends, Margot and Trini, who, after spending most of the movie refusing to “put out,” frantically begin “practicing” for sex — lying in their underwear, gyrating their hips and moaning theatrically, etc. The uptight Margot, played by Katt Shea (later a director as well as an actress), is a high point. “Preppies” is good-natured fun, and the main characters are likeable: more than mere caricatures. (The pervert bad guy Blackwel is pretty funny, too.) It’s not a classic, but it’s better than many big, well-known teen-sex movies that had much bigger distribution.