One genre of movie I always seem to be drawn to is the 80's teen comedy. After all, I was a teenager in the 80's, ergo, I was the target audience for movies such as Better off Dead, School Spirit, Revenge of the Nerds and this little movie from 1985 'Fraternity Vacation'
For the most part, this movie sticks to the tried and trusted formula and plays to the usual teen comedy tropes and it has everything you would expect, The Geeky Hero, the good looking bully with the fancy car, the over the top authority figure bad guy and lots of blondes in bikinis getting naked occasionally.
Fraternity vacation happily avoids the 'geek becomes chic' stereotype all too prevalent in teen comedies. Our main character Wendell, (Stephen Geoffrey's) knows he's a geek, wishes to stay a geek and everyone still loves him for being a geek.
The plot centres around two rival frats trying to outdo each other by seeing who can he the first to bed a particular girl. The girl in question is Ashley, (Sheree J Wilson). She seems aloof at first but as her character develops the frat boys soon learn which buttons to press to try to ingratiate themselves to her....alas, without success.
Midway through the movie the frat boy characters, Joe, (Cameron Dye), Mother (Tim Robbins), Chas '(Leigh McCloskey) and JC (Matt McCoy), who had been rivals and enemies up to this point, become allies and friends when Joe and Mother are arrested by the tyrannical police chief (John Vernon) and the other two join forces with the other students on vacation to help get them out. This epiphany of virtue comes a bit too easy to be believable, considering they Chas and JC had previously locked Joe and Mother in a Sauna where actual death could have transpired.
The character of the chief is also way over the top, to the point that you also find it hard to believe that a whole town would be willing to have such a malicious and sociopathic angry man as their head of police for more than half an hour let alone a whole term of office.
Realistically, this falls way short of being a good movie, even when compared to other teen comedy movies of the day. However, gripes aside, it's a harmless movie and ideal for watching when you have a Sunday morning hangover as I did.
As you would expect there is some mild female nudity of boobs and butts particularly in one memorable scene with Barbara Crampton and Kathleen Kinmont. However, it is clear that the nude scene for Sheree J Wilson was done by a body double, as great pains were made to ensure her face was obscured at all times during that scene.
Enjoy! And party like it's 1985.
For the most part, this movie sticks to the tried and trusted formula and plays to the usual teen comedy tropes and it has everything you would expect, The Geeky Hero, the good looking bully with the fancy car, the over the top authority figure bad guy and lots of blondes in bikinis getting naked occasionally.
Fraternity vacation happily avoids the 'geek becomes chic' stereotype all too prevalent in teen comedies. Our main character Wendell, (Stephen Geoffrey's) knows he's a geek, wishes to stay a geek and everyone still loves him for being a geek.
The plot centres around two rival frats trying to outdo each other by seeing who can he the first to bed a particular girl. The girl in question is Ashley, (Sheree J Wilson). She seems aloof at first but as her character develops the frat boys soon learn which buttons to press to try to ingratiate themselves to her....alas, without success.
Midway through the movie the frat boy characters, Joe, (Cameron Dye), Mother (Tim Robbins), Chas '(Leigh McCloskey) and JC (Matt McCoy), who had been rivals and enemies up to this point, become allies and friends when Joe and Mother are arrested by the tyrannical police chief (John Vernon) and the other two join forces with the other students on vacation to help get them out. This epiphany of virtue comes a bit too easy to be believable, considering they Chas and JC had previously locked Joe and Mother in a Sauna where actual death could have transpired.
The character of the chief is also way over the top, to the point that you also find it hard to believe that a whole town would be willing to have such a malicious and sociopathic angry man as their head of police for more than half an hour let alone a whole term of office.
Realistically, this falls way short of being a good movie, even when compared to other teen comedy movies of the day. However, gripes aside, it's a harmless movie and ideal for watching when you have a Sunday morning hangover as I did.
As you would expect there is some mild female nudity of boobs and butts particularly in one memorable scene with Barbara Crampton and Kathleen Kinmont. However, it is clear that the nude scene for Sheree J Wilson was done by a body double, as great pains were made to ensure her face was obscured at all times during that scene.
Enjoy! And party like it's 1985.