The result is unsophisticated, unilluminating, unambitious, and hilarious.
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02/27/08
Back to School (1986)
87 %
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Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 20
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A self-made millionaire decides to join his only son who is having difficulty in fitting in at school as a freshman in college. This impulse gesture sets him on a path to much laughter, a little... [More]
Starring: Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Burt Young, Ned Beatty
Director: Alan Metter
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Reviews for Back to School
It's a good character for Dangerfield, one that veers him away from the 'I don't get no respect' pathos that comes too easily to him, and enough attention is paid to the minimal plot to integrate Dangerfield's classically constructed one-liners.
02/27/08
Top CriticObserve, and offer cod psychological analysis to your friends.
02/27/08
This Rodney Dangerfield vehicle is a lot better than it should be.
02/27/08
Dangerfield dominates most the film, happily upending everything around him.
08/18/07
[An] acceptable time-passer.
01/26/06
Dangerfield's best cinematic offering, but it's the late Sam Kinison's cameo that steals the show.
10/28/05
No review available.
07/19/05
No review available.
04/29/05
No review available.
09/01/04
No review available.
08/06/04
Dangerfield at his feature film best--and no, really, I do mean that as a good thing.
03/24/04
No review available.
03/20/04
Ba-da-bing, punch line, ba-da-boom.
12/22/03
Rodney Dangerfield's funniest film
07/15/03
The film is a good-natured potpourri of gags, funny bits, populist sentiment and anti-intellectualism.
05/21/03
Top CriticHilarious Dangerfield vehicle.
02/07/03
No review available.
10/31/02
No review available.
10/03/02
Easily Dangerfield's best movie--for what that's worth
09/12/02
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