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Get it, because the music was so bad, her shoes came off!
What the F????
Then there is an endless montage of stock footage to drive home the point that the SINGING IS BAD.
If any human being actually suffered through this scene in the theater without running like hell, I would be astonished.
This movie is honestly like a practical joke to see how fast people would bolt out the doors.
Robert Downey Sr. directs comedy the way his son commands respect by staying drug-free.
Badly.
Other things to watch out for: 1.
The popular music shoehorned in wherever possible.
Every time Liceman appears, a really inappropriate Iggy Pop song plays.
Plus all the actors do their best to act like it got really chilly for some reason.
Barbara Bach's criminally awful accent.
She sounds like she's trying to talk like a baby while rolling a marble around on her tongue.
There is no nudity, and there are several scenes where the boys all moan and writhe from a glimpse of her cleavage, like they're in a community school acting class and they've been directed to act like aroused retarded people.
Liceman feeds his revolting dog a condom.
Remember;
when this movie came out throwing in "abortion" and "condom" was seen as "edgy."
Tom Poston plays a mincing, boy-hungry pedophile, back when Hollywood thought "pedophile" and "homosexual" were one in the same.
Flat-out embarrassing.
Watch the ending.
Nothing is wrong with your VCR.
That is actually the ending.
Tell me that doesn't make you want to explode everyone who's ever made any movie, ever.
Watch this at your own risk.
Up The Academy has been known to actually make other movies, like The Jerk or Blazing Saddles, less funny simply by placing the videotape near them.
The only thing I remember about this movie are two things: first, as a twelve year old, even I thought it stunk.
Second, it was so bad that when Mad magazine did a parody of it, they quit after the first page, and wrote a disclaimer at the bottom of the page saying that they had completely disavowed it.
If you want to see great sophomoric comedies of this period, try Animal House.
It's so stupid and vulgar it lowers itself to high art.
Another good selection would be Caddyshack, the classic with the late Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray before he became annoyingly charming, with great lines like greens keeper Carl Spackler's "Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key."
A stale "misfits-in-the-army" saga, which half-heartedly attempts to be both surreal (the foreign subtitles) AND vulgar (the flatulence gags), but just ends up being a mix of many different kinds of humor, none of them followed very successfully.
Barbara Bach, the Bond Girl from "The Spy Who Loved Me", has only two or three brief scenes.
What a waste!
(*1/2)
I used to LOVE this movie as a kid but, seeing it again 20+ years later, it actually sucks.
Up The Academy might have been ahead of it's time back in 1980, but it has almost nothing to offer today!
Movies like Caddyshack and Stripes hold-up much better today than this steaming dogpile.
No T&A.
No great jokes except for the one-liners we've all heard a million times by now.
I recently bought the DVD in hopes that it would be the gem I remembered it being.
Well, I was WAY off!
The soundtrack had only 2-3 widely-recognizable hits (not the smash compilation others had mentioned) and the frequent voice-overs were terrible.
The only thing that was interesting, to me, was predicting what the character's lines were before they said them.
Yep, I watched this movie that much back then!
The only reason I am writing this review is to give my two cents on why this movie should be forgotten, sorry to say.
Mad Magazine may have a lot of crazy people working for it...
but obviously someone there had some common sense when the powers-that-be disowned this waste of celluloid...
the editing is el crapo, the plot is incredibly thin and stupid...
and the only reason it gets a two out of ten is that Stacy Nelkin takes off some of her clothes and we get a nice chest shot...
I never thought I would feel sorry for Ralph Macchio making the decision to be in this thing, but I do...
and I REALLY feel bad for Ron Leibman and Tom Poston, gifted actors who never should have shown up in this piece of...
film...
at least Mr. Leibman had the cajones to refuse to have his name put anywhere on the movie...
and he comes out ahead...
there are actually copies of this thing with Mad's beginning sequence still on it...
if you can locate one, grab it cuz it is probably worth something...
it's the only thing about this movie that's worth anything...
and a note to the folks at IMDb.com...
there is no way to spoil this movie for anyone...
the makers spoiled it by themselves...
Before I comment on this movie I just watched on YouTube, I have to admit that the reason I checked this out was to rewatch something I first saw on the TV ads in 1980: Barbara Bach's cleavage.
And since the movie received an R rating, I expected to see her nude.
Alas, no dice for her or of the other gorgeous actress that appeared here: Stacey Nelkin who's supposed to be a teen but was actually 20 when she made this.
Seeing her in a bra and panty and later in a belly dancer outfit was just as arousing as Ms. Bach.
They provide some of the scattered laughs this movie provides.
In fact, I don't blame Ron Leibman for having his name removed from the credits since his role as the tight-fisted Liceman is pretty embarrassing though I did like the "seduction" scene he did with Ms. Nelkin.
This also happens to be the debut of Ralph Macchio who's the loner among the misfits sent to an academy school.
The others are a black kid who really loves his stepmother and Ms. Bach, an Arab who worships motor oil, and a politician's son who loves his girlfriend Candy (Nelkin's character) so much, he risks sneaking in the middle of the night see her in the girls academy.
Among the supporting cast, Tom Poston plays a swishy character named Sisson who I found partly amusing.
With a screenplay by Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses and direction by Robert Downey Sr. (whose son Robert Downey Jr. has a cameo early on in a soccer scene), Up the Academy is uneven with the politically incorrect humor but unless you're really offended at the scatological and sexual content, this is actually a pretty harmless comedy that Mad Magazine and its trademark cover boy-Alfred E. Newman-shouldn't be ashamed of even though they once had their name and character taken off the picture...
P.S. Another one of the "misfits" was Harry Teinowitz who was born in my birth town of Chicago, Ill.
He played Rodney Ververgaert.
He also says one of my favorite lines: "I'm trying to come."
There are bad movies, terrible movies even boring movies...
I can watch most and put up until the end, not this time.
Avoid this like the plague, annoying music throughout, terrible editing, no comedy, its tackier than a novelty mug...
My missus wanted to watch this thinking it would be Legally Blonde material or something kind of watchable, but never better than average, chick flick.
Its the first time she was begging me to push the stop button.
The Girls, well, they were not great to start with (Denise done OK in Starship Troopers and Wild things) but you have sank to the gravel.
I feel like a mug having spent 30 minutes on this...
Pamela Anderson is almost unrecognisable after much construction work to her face.
Please take my advice if you want to avoid wasting valuable oxygen and brain cells ranting at the utter mince that is on your screen.
How could I best express my feelings about this movie: hideous?
a headache?
lack of coherent writing?
plain stupidity?
Try all of the above for this travesty.
And that just for the direction.
Story?
Well I guess there is a story.
Two dumb blondes look for a job after they crash a plane into a golf course.
They are mistaken for a 'world renounced assassin' (sarcasm) and are 'hired' by two 'mobsters.'
One thinks "taking him out" means a date, and the other gets the minor actor she dreams of.
And of course, the turtle reserve for the farting turtle, that they build with the casino winnings.
Sounds likes all this could be funny?
Guess again.
They try to make it funny, but its not.
Filming sequences aren't well done.
I've seen better filming in Hong Kong movies.
Visuals are average for a late 80s film.

Get it, because the music was so bad, her shoes came off!

What the F????

Then there is an endless montage of stock footage to drive home the point that the SINGING IS BAD.

If any human being actually suffered through this scene in the theater without running like hell, I would be astonished.

This movie is honestly like a practical joke to see how fast people would bolt out the doors.

Robert Downey Sr. directs comedy the way his son commands respect by staying drug-free.

Badly.

Other things to watch out for: 1.

The popular music shoehorned in wherever possible.

Every time Liceman appears, a really inappropriate Iggy Pop song plays.

Plus all the actors do their best to act like it got really chilly for some reason.

Barbara Bach's criminally awful accent.

She sounds like she's trying to talk like a baby while rolling a marble around on her tongue.

There is no nudity, and there are several scenes where the boys all moan and writhe from a glimpse of her cleavage, like they're in a community school acting class and they've been directed to act like aroused retarded people.

Liceman feeds his revolting dog a condom.

Remember;

when this movie came out throwing in "abortion" and "condom" was seen as "edgy."

Tom Poston plays a mincing, boy-hungry pedophile, back when Hollywood thought "pedophile" and "homosexual" were one in the same.

Flat-out embarrassing.

Watch the ending.

Nothing is wrong with your VCR.

That is actually the ending.

Tell me that doesn't make you want to explode everyone who's ever made any movie, ever.

Watch this at your own risk.

Up The Academy has been known to actually make other movies, like The Jerk or Blazing Saddles, less funny simply by placing the videotape near them.

The only thing I remember about this movie are two things: first, as a twelve year old, even I thought it stunk.

Second, it was so bad that when Mad magazine did a parody of it, they quit after the first page, and wrote a disclaimer at the bottom of the page saying that they had completely disavowed it.

If you want to see great sophomoric comedies of this period, try Animal House.

It's so stupid and vulgar it lowers itself to high art.

Another good selection would be Caddyshack, the classic with the late Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray before he became annoyingly charming, with great lines like greens keeper Carl Spackler's "Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key."

A stale "misfits-in-the-army" saga, which half-heartedly attempts to be both surreal (the foreign subtitles) AND vulgar (the flatulence gags), but just ends up being a mix of many different kinds of humor, none of them followed very successfully.

Barbara Bach, the Bond Girl from "The Spy Who Loved Me", has only two or three brief scenes.

What a waste!

(*1/2)

I used to LOVE this movie as a kid but, seeing it again 20+ years later, it actually sucks.

Up The Academy might have been ahead of it's time back in 1980, but it has almost nothing to offer today!

Movies like Caddyshack and Stripes hold-up much better today than this steaming dogpile.

No T&A.

No great jokes except for the one-liners we've all heard a million times by now.

I recently bought the DVD in hopes that it would be the gem I remembered it being.

Well, I was WAY off!

The soundtrack had only 2-3 widely-recognizable hits (not the smash compilation others had mentioned) and the frequent voice-overs were terrible.

The only thing that was interesting, to me, was predicting what the character's lines were before they said them.

Yep, I watched this movie that much back then!

The only reason I am writing this review is to give my two cents on why this movie should be forgotten, sorry to say.

Mad Magazine may have a lot of crazy people working for it...

but obviously someone there had some common sense when the powers-that-be disowned this waste of celluloid...

the editing is el crapo, the plot is incredibly thin and stupid...

and the only reason it gets a two out of ten is that Stacy Nelkin takes off some of her clothes and we get a nice chest shot...

I never thought I would feel sorry for Ralph Macchio making the decision to be in this thing, but I do...

and I REALLY feel bad for Ron Leibman and Tom Poston, gifted actors who never should have shown up in this piece of...

film...

at least Mr. Leibman had the cajones to refuse to have his name put anywhere on the movie...

and he comes out ahead...

there are actually copies of this thing with Mad's beginning sequence still on it...

if you can locate one, grab it cuz it is probably worth something...

it's the only thing about this movie that's worth anything...

and a note to the folks at IMDb.com...

there is no way to spoil this movie for anyone...

the makers spoiled it by themselves...

Before I comment on this movie I just watched on YouTube, I have to admit that the reason I checked this out was to rewatch something I first saw on the TV ads in 1980: Barbara Bach's cleavage.

And since the movie received an R rating, I expected to see her nude.

Alas, no dice for her or of the other gorgeous actress that appeared here: Stacey Nelkin who's supposed to be a teen but was actually 20 when she made this.

Seeing her in a bra and panty and later in a belly dancer outfit was just as arousing as Ms. Bach.

They provide some of the scattered laughs this movie provides.

In fact, I don't blame Ron Leibman for having his name removed from the credits since his role as the tight-fisted Liceman is pretty embarrassing though I did like the "seduction" scene he did with Ms. Nelkin.

This also happens to be the debut of Ralph Macchio who's the loner among the misfits sent to an academy school.

The others are a black kid who really loves his stepmother and Ms. Bach, an Arab who worships motor oil, and a politician's son who loves his girlfriend Candy (Nelkin's character) so much, he risks sneaking in the middle of the night see her in the girls academy.

Among the supporting cast, Tom Poston plays a swishy character named Sisson who I found partly amusing.

With a screenplay by Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses and direction by Robert Downey Sr. (whose son Robert Downey Jr. has a cameo early on in a soccer scene), Up the Academy is uneven with the politically incorrect humor but unless you're really offended at the scatological and sexual content, this is actually a pretty harmless comedy that Mad Magazine and its trademark cover boy-Alfred E. Newman-shouldn't be ashamed of even though they once had their name and character taken off the picture...

P.S. Another one of the "misfits" was Harry Teinowitz who was born in my birth town of Chicago, Ill.

He played Rodney Ververgaert.

He also says one of my favorite lines: "I'm trying to come."

There are bad movies, terrible movies even boring movies...

I can watch most and put up until the end, not this time.

Avoid this like the plague, annoying music throughout, terrible editing, no comedy, its tackier than a novelty mug...

My missus wanted to watch this thinking it would be Legally Blonde material or something kind of watchable, but never better than average, chick flick.

Its the first time she was begging me to push the stop button.

The Girls, well, they were not great to start with (Denise done OK in Starship Troopers and Wild things) but you have sank to the gravel.

I feel like a mug having spent 30 minutes on this...

Pamela Anderson is almost unrecognisable after much construction work to her face.

Please take my advice if you want to avoid wasting valuable oxygen and brain cells ranting at the utter mince that is on your screen.

How could I best express my feelings about this movie: hideous?

a headache?

lack of coherent writing?

plain stupidity?

Try all of the above for this travesty.

And that just for the direction.

Story?

Well I guess there is a story.

Two dumb blondes look for a job after they crash a plane into a golf course.

They are mistaken for a 'world renounced assassin' (sarcasm) and are 'hired' by two 'mobsters.'

One thinks "taking him out" means a date, and the other gets the minor actor she dreams of.

And of course, the turtle reserve for the farting turtle, that they build with the casino winnings.

Sounds likes all this could be funny?

Guess again.

They try to make it funny, but its not.

Filming sequences aren't well done.

I've seen better filming in Hong Kong movies.

Visuals are average for a late 80s film.