It's just there for one to discover if you feel like looking for layers. Don't expect this concept to be explored much in the film, or at all. It's a mirror for what goes on in real life, as minority groups turn against each other, despite whatever gains they might get by working together. It's telling that a group that has experienced so much prejudice and discrimination sees no problem discriminating against the nerds. No one will take the nerds as a fraternity chapter, except for Lambda Lambda Lambda, a national black fraternity, and that's only because their bylaws say they must.
It's here that the social commentary starts creeping in a bit, amongst the nudity and potty humor. Together, they find a place to live and eventually, because of some troubles with the Greeks on campus, they decide to become a fraternity.
And of course, there's the belching, farting, nose-picking Booger, who's more of an outcast than a nerd, but the nerds are the only ones to accept him. It's here where they meet their brothers in struggles, including Lamar, the gay black guy Wormser, a little genius fast-tracked to college, Poindexter, a stumbling mess of allergies and blindness, and Takashi, a Japanese student without much knowledge of Western culture or language. With their coach (John Goodman) encouraging them, and the school dean (David Wohl) standing impotently by, they boot the freshmen from their dorm and turn them into refugees living on cots in the gym. Shortly after they move in though, the jock fraternity, Alpha Beta, burns down their own house in a prank, and decide, since they are the Big Men on Campus, that they can take whatever housing they want. Either way, they move into the freshman dorm and tack up their computer posters and begin building a robot, with at least Lewis confident that college will be a great time. I don't know if it was their performances, but I always sided more with the understated Gilbert, rather than the bolder Lewis, who became the face of the Nerds franchise. While Gilbert is realistically frightened and nervous, Lewis lives in a dream world where he thinks he will be a big stud at college and he has a chance to score with the hot cheerleaders. Lewis (Robert Carradine) and Gilbert (Anthony Edwards, "ER") are a pair of nerds heading off to college as freshmen. Many years later, the film remains just as enjoyable, and the story is as meaningful as ever, with its tale of underdogs overcoming the odds. Being a part of my school's talented and gifted program, I, like many of you reading, identified with the misfit heroes of this movie, and enjoyed seeing their adventures. Revenge of the Nerds, along with Real Genius, was one of the pillars of the genre, and a film that created my expectations for what college life would be. Sadly, we don't really see many movies like this anymore, what with AIDS and political correctness, so we can only revisit our old favorites and remember the fun we had. Escapist entertainment at its finest, these movies combined comedy and nudity to create good fun for any red-blooded hetero young man.
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When I was a kid, I watched a lot of HBO and frequented the long-gone Video Plus in Copiague, NY, becoming a big fan of the T&A sex comedies of the '80s. Hates: That college wasn't like it was in the movies
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