Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

bkoganbing Back To School is where Rodney Dangerfield is going. Heeding the advice of his father who said that no matter how successful you are, you are not a well rounded person without some education. Wish his dad was running the Department Of Education today. Dangerfield who is a multi-millionaire tycoon in the clothing business knows that money talks and he gets it to speak volumes. It's called an endowment and Ned Beatty as Dean Martin admits him.Dangerfield thinks it would be nice if he and his son Keith Gordon did the college thing together. But Keith resents dad just moving in and taking over. So does business teacher Paxton Whitehead. Whitehead is one of those who lives up to the motto, those who can't teach. Whitehead is also jealous that Dangerfield making time with English teacher Sally Kellerman.In her own way Kellerman conveys the same message to him, but it sure is packaged better. It's a Dangerfield production and all in the cast kind of play his straight men. Some of the others include Burt Young who knew Rodney way back when and is his chauffeur and general fixer of all things, Robert Downey, Jr., as Gordon's friend and roommate who is loving being part of a faster lifestyle and William Zabka, bad kid in the Karate Kid who makes life miserable for Gordon.Two small but indelible roles are Sam Kinison as a most unorthodox history professor and Adrienne Barbeau who is brilliant as the cheating trophy wife of Dangerfield. How he handles her is priceless.A must for Rodney Dangerfield fans.

gwnightscream Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., Paxton Whitehead and Burt Young star in this 1986 comedy. Dangerfield (Caddyshack) plays Thornton Melon, a self-made millionaire who owns a chain of clothing stores and never finished school. Gordon (Christine) plays his teenage son, Jason who is just starting his first semester at college. Jason is having trouble fitting in and Thornton decides to enroll to be with him. At first, Thornton has a bit too much fun and doesn't take his academics seriously. Soon, things get a little tough for Thornton and Jason, but they help each other get through them. Kellerman (Moving Violations) plays Diane, a professor Thornton falls for, Downey Jr. (Iron Man) plays Jason's roommate pal, Derek, Whitehead plays professor, Phil who can't stand Thornton and Young (Rocky) plays Thornton's friend, Lou. This is a great 80's comedy that's definitely one of Rodney's best with a good cast & great score by Danny Elfman who also makes an appearance. I recommend this.

Aaron1375 I can not believe this one ranks higher in score than "Easy Money". To me that one is a lot funnier than this one, which has some good stuff within it, but it just runs to long and gets to sentimental near the end. The story has a successful business man who never went to school with a son in college. Well the son is not having a good time of it and wants to drop out, but his father does not want him to. Well the son says the father did not go so why should he and this spurs the father (played by Dangerfield) to go to the same college to prove a point. There are some funny things initially, but like a lot of comedies of this type it gets to sentimental at times, there are a few lags between the laughs and after a point you just wish it to be over. Dangerfield is mostly funny in this one, though he is at his best near the beginning of the movie while at a party thrown by his wife. A few good scenes when he is first going to college as I enjoyed his first meeting with Sam Kinneson as a professor. Like I said though this movie just seems to go on to long and they have to invent plot points to make the movie more serious than it need be. Sure some people may like this kind of thing, I am just not one of them though. So for me the movie was almost an even split making it not good, but not bad.

RoseNylan You know how after eating at a Chinese buffet, no matter how much you eat you never get full? That's how I felt after watching this movie. There should have been more.Don't get me wrong, I don't want the movie to be longer - I want more jokes. This was a comedy, right? I think jokes are an important part of comedy.I have seen episodes of Lost with more comedic relief than this movie.I've seen Youtube videos that were better than this.It's hard to believe that such a talented writer as Harold Ramis of Caddyshack and National Lampoon's Vacation could have hatched this bad egg out of his mindgrapes.This would have been a great movie in Fantasyland.