The result is unsophisticated, unilluminating, unambitious, and hilarious.
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02/27/08
Back to School (1986)
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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
[An] acceptable time-passer.
01/26/06
Observe, and offer cod psychological analysis to your friends.
02/27/08
Dangerfield's best cinematic offering, but it's the late Sam Kinison's cameo that steals the show.
10/28/05
No review available.
10/31/02
No review available.
04/29/05
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 CriticHilarious Dangerfield vehicle.
02/07/03
Ba-da-bing, punch line, ba-da-boom.
12/22/03
Dangerfield dominates most the film, happily upending everything around him.
08/18/07
No review available.
08/09/02
Rodney Dangerfield's funniest film
07/15/03
Easily Dangerfield's best movie--for what that's worth
09/12/02
This Rodney Dangerfield vehicle is a lot better than it should be.
02/27/08
The film is a good-natured potpourri of gags, funny bits, populist sentiment and anti-intellectualism.
05/21/03
No review available.
08/06/04
This is exactly the sort of plot Marx or Fields could have appeared in. Dangerfield brings it something they might also have brought along: a certain pathos.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
09/01/04
Formula college comedy salvaged single-handedly by Dangerfield's trademark schtick.
07/26/02
Dangerfield at his feature film best--and no, really, I do mean that as a good thing.
03/24/04
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