Senior Trip (1995)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Kelly Makin

Writers (WGA):

Roger Kumble (written by) &
I. Marlene King (written by)

Release Date:

8 September 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Adventure

Tagline:

Stupid tricks. Outrageous chaos. Total destruction. They're taking it on the road.

Plot:

While on detention, a group of misfits and slackers have to write a letter to the President explaining what is wrong with the education system...

Plot Keywords:

High School | Flatulence | Crossing Guard | Interracial Sex | National Lampoon Series

Cast

Matt Frewer	...	Principal Todd Moss
Valerie Mahaffey	...	Miss Tracy Milford
Lawrence Dane	...	Senator John Lerman
Tommy Chong	...	Red
Jeremy Renner	...	Mark 'Dags' D'agostino
Rob Moore	...	Reggie Barry
Eric Edwards	...	Miosky (as Eric 'Sparky' Edwards)
Kevin McDonald	...	Travis Lindsey
Michael Blake	...	Herbert Jones
Tara Strong	...	Carla Morgan (as Tara Charendoff)
Nicole de Boer	...	Meg Smith (as Nicole deBoer)
Sergio Di Zio	...	Steve Nisser
Fiona Loewi	...	Lisa Perkins
Kathryn Rose	...	Wanda Baker
Danny Smith	...	Barry 'Virus' Kremmer

Also Known As:

La folle excursion de National Lampoon (Canada: French title)
National Lampoon's Senior Trip (USA) (complete title)
Senior School (UK)

MPAA:

Rated R for continuous teenage alcohol and drug abuse, and for crude sexual references.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Finland:K-3 | Iceland:12 | Australia:M | Spain:18 | UK:15 (video premiere) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

1992 Number Four Limited Partnership

Trivia:

The bus driver "Red" played by Tommy Chong hums a tune reminscent of the song that Chong and Cheech Marin play in the end of Up in Smoke (1978).

Goofs:

Continuity: Travis's 1974 Chevrolet Caprice convertible turns into a 1971 Chevrolet Impala convertible after it crashes off the bridge.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Principal Moss: It's now officially 8:01 people, let's move it!

Movie Connections:

Features Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

Soundtrack:

I Walk In Circles

This series will outlive us all

The 'National Lampoon' series grinds on. Matt Frewer is a high school principal who assigns his degenerate pupils the detention project of writing a letter to the President explaining how the education system has failed them. The President is so impressed he invites them to Washington, so all the kids pile on a rickety bus and head off to the capital. This juvenile teen comedy manages to contain just about every genre stereotype – the fat slob, the cool joker, the prissy swot and so on – but it does raise a few laughs along the way thanks in no small part to Frewer's manic performance, as opposed to, say, decent writing. Still, it's kind of fun and is by no means the worst of the series.