The movie is called "Stewardess School", although stewardesses are by definition female, and there are men at the school too, some of whom are main characters. That does not inspire confidence.
I guess it's another in the line of movies about a group of wacky misfits trying to make it through training to become... whatever hadn't been done yet. Think of "Stripes", "Police Academy", "Young Doctors in Love", "STITCHES".
You might not have heard of the last two, and there's a reason for that: the're garbage, like this one is.
"Stewardess School" seems to have not that bad a budget, but it just doesn't work. It's not funny in the least, most of its attempts at humour being more confusing than anything else.
"Stripes" worked because it had talent like Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Judge Reinhold, John Larroquette, Warren Oates. Even "Police Academy" managed some memorable characters. "Stewardess School" has... what? A guy who is very near sighted, so he wears coke-bottle glasses. Ho ho. A spoilt rich girl who is slumming it as a biker punk girl... but after the movie introduces her, in a bizarrely out-of-place scene, it forgets about her for about another hour or so, leaving you thinking, "what was the point of that scene with the rich biker punk girl?" Why introduce her, and then do nothing with her?
These problems could have been solved with some basic screenplay maintenance. Give it some kind of structure, anything. Maybe trim the endless list of forgettable characters. They could have combined two or three of these character traits into one character and made the whole thing a little easier to follow.
What it is, is a mess. An endless mess. A tiring mess. A mess so bad I had to start writing this review to distract me from the movie's final act, which is obviously supposed to be the point where all the wacky characters' crazy traits actually come in handy and save the day.
The movie does have a few people in it you might recognize. Sandahl Bergman, from "Conan" and "All That Jazz". And Earl Boen, whose name you may not know, but you've definitely seen him in at least one - probably two - of the "Terminator" movies. And lastly, Don Most, providing a great indication as to why his post-"Happy Days" career went absolutely nowhere.
While writing, planning, filming, editing and marketing this movie, did anybody stop to ask the question: do they even HAVE schools for stewardesses, anyway? Do you really need to go to "school" to get that job? At least "Stripes" and "Police Academy" were send ups of organizations that actually exist.
