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Nonureva Really Surprised!

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Bolesroor You take the nostalgia-powered smash "American Graffiti," you add the apocalyptic anarchy of "National Lampoon's Animal House" and then start throwing in bad-movie clichés: Halloween Night Bumbling Police Officers The "gang's last night together"You stir in generous portions of quasi-stars (Tony Danza, Fran Drescher, Michelle Pfeiffer) and what do you get? This obnoxious piece of purely-derivative sewer-clogging cinema.A Hollywood valentine to California kids via the Hollywood motion picture...You know, shark vomit.Antics abound, some instantly forgettable, others more instantly forgettable. A fat cop gets squirted with ketchup. A teenage hood moons a neighborhood meeting for citizens concerned about decaying moral values. Get it...?GET IT...?Robert Wuhl earns his very own paragraph for his offensively unfunny "wild-man," routine, that man with the mind of a nine year-old who considers himself HILARIOUS but doesn't get invited to your party. His characterization in this film as gang leader "Newbomb Turk" might serve as the Webster-approved definition of "dork;" loud, hyper, without a trace of self-awareness, and proudly showing the world he's not yet mature enough for sexual experience by being as naughty and sleazy as a bad boy can be! Remember ladies: its legal for a man to sexually harass you as long as he's a virgin.Other film is screened in front of the projector before someone in control decides it's time to run the closing credits, scored to a faux-60's falsetto title tune: "Hollywood, Hollywood Knights- Hollywood Kni-iights..."whatever.GRADE: D-

preppy-3 This takes place in Hollywood on Halloween night in 1965. A popular teen hangout is being closed down. The main group there--the Hollywood Knights--decide to see it close down with a bang by playing stupid, unfunny and tasteless jokes on the adults and cops (all of whom are portrayed as total idiots). There's also two serious stories about a Knight going off to Vietnam and two lovers (Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer) whose relationship is falling apart.There's nothing wrong with crude humor. I'm no fan of "Animal House" but it did have its moments. This however has none. All the jokes are just really stupid, crude and not even remotely funny. I didn't even crack a smile once! The dramatic scenes (there aren't many) aren't any better. They're badly written, directed and acted. It's especially surprising seeing such a talented actress as Pfeiffer giving a truly lousy performance--but the script is against her. Danza doesn't fare much better. The film looks cheap, moves in jerks and leaps (it was incredible how ineptly the multiple story lines are handled) and is just boring.The only reason to see this is to see Danza, Pfeiffer, Robert Wuhl and Fran Drescher all so young and before they hit it big. Drescher is lots of fun especially. Also there's a GREAT soundtrack of oldies. But, all in all, this is just moronic and forgettable. However this inexplicably has a following. Use your own judgment.

ctmur You'll find this movie more enjoyable if you were lucky enough to be the same age as the movie setting. The pranks played by that generation were ones that were funny and not meant to hurt anyone. Not like the morbid ones kids play today where they are meant to cause harm. For a now graying gear head the top billing of the movie has to go to all the vehicles. It's a dam shame what the auto industry puts out today. They've lost all the distinctive beauty and class like the ones shown in this movie. And not to forget the sound and feel of horsepower hiding under the hood. As to the parts of the movie that make you warm inside, they are all well done in concerns of love and war as well as the bonding between friends. I've enjoyed watching this movie over and over again. At my age a movie like this one brings back the feelings of being young again and a desire to turn back the hands of time to the good times with good friends, good music and hot rods.

Shapster11 American Graffitti became a classic because of it delved into issues of high school graduation, the Vietnam War, and moving on from your roots and comfort in a small California town in the early 1960's. The Hollywood Knights (HK), in many ways, examines similar issues at a similar time except it departs any semblance of maturity and seriousness.HK touches all the silliness a film can muster yet the cast here pulls it off in a fun way. The situation is this...we're in Beverly Hills, CA. in the mid sixties and Tubby's Drive-In, the local hang out for teens, is closing its doors for good when it closes that night. The members of the "gang" Hollywood Knights are determined to cram into one night all the pranks and mayhem they can. Their ringleader is Newbomb Turk, played wonderfully by Robert Wuhl long before he created the character of ARLI$$ for HBO.You'll get to see some very notable actors and actresses here. Following in the fine tradition of real Hollywood a movie such as this tends to bring to the public some terrific future talent. Among the people you'll recognize are Michelle Pheiffer, Tony Danza, and Fran Drescher. Danza had already been discovered as a boxer turned cab driver in the great TV series "TAXI". Pheiffer is so young and beautiful here that it is easy to see the star potential movie makers saw in her. Drescher, shortly before developing her signature role as "The Nanny" for TV, plays her role with the same nasal Brooklyn charm that made her endearing to audiences.One final note about HK...some of the scenes are slapstick funny. As in Animal House this movie will have you remembering pranks you tried and moronic silly things you laughed at yet it will take you back, I'm betting, in a good way.