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Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
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Donald Ross (writer)
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January 1986 (USA)
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...it's funny enough to eat! more
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Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Leigh McCloskey | ... | Russell | |
| Dick Butkus | ... | Drootin | |
| Randi Brooks | ... | Mrs. Vunk | |
| Chuck McCann | ... | Dr. Mole | |
| Jack Blessing | ... | Nacio Herb Zipser | |
| Charles Tyner | ... | Lyman Vunk | |
| Debra Blee | ... | Mia Vunk | |
| Sandy Hackett | ... | Fred Domino | |
| John William Young | ... | Prestopopnick (as John Young) | |
| Chip McAllister | ... | Magneto Jones | |
| Barbara Whinnery | ... | Sister Sara | |
| Maria Richwine | ... | Conchita | |
| Karen Mayo-Chandler | ... | Dr. Gotbottom | |
| Robert Hogan | ... | Russell's Parent (as Bob Hogan) | |
| Lillian Garrett | ... | Russell's Parent |
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Hamburger U.
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[after farting] Deep and mean
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References "The Flying Nun" (1967)
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One of those guilty-pleasure, take it for what it is, so bad it's good, whatevers. In the wake of the "Police Academy" success, producers Feldman and Meeker---who made the legitimate "The Hitcher" the same year---picked up this script about life at a college university for fast-food franchise wannabes. The focal point is McCloughsky, who though a perennial flunk-out who lives at home, looks like he's in his mid-30s. He feels a last-ditch effort at an "education" is to attend a screwball Burger University with a group of over-cooked washouts of life. It's hard to offer an honest review on this, because I first saw it when I was 11. Back then it came off as comic genius, but revisiting it lately I realize how cornball and unrealistic it is. I mean, there's some good "bad taste" kind of jokes---old woman cussed out in a drive-thru, oral copulation in a Chinese restaurant---but again, most of the humor is in suspension of disbelief. Such as the student turned into a half-chicken, and a black guy "kidnapped" to the school to prove the burger chain isn't bigoted. Which is one of the areas where it crossed from bad taste to offensive, with a later sequence involving a black policeman being hurled epithets. This leads to an eye roller when said cop returns to join rioters in destroying one of the burger joints. And a BIG line crossed when the group of misfits in unison calls a five-year-old girl a "mother-f***er". But there's a good deal of clever puns on gherkins and "eating out", plus a spirited turn by the Dean of Burgers and some decent T&A. Along with a surprisingly catchy theme song, and a farting sequence that will forever obliterate any other film's attempts in the rest of the history of cinema. So with the above said, I think you have an idea of what you might be in for.