wjb@ariel.UUCP (08/06/84)
If you liked "Porky's" you will like this. Actually it is in slightly better taste, but just as unbelievable. As you would expect it is chock full of total frontal nudity, beer parties, and obscenity. The movie tries to add a message at the end, but by then you really can't take it very seriously. Overall, not worth $5.
lund@ucla-cs.UUCP (08/07/84)
In one sentence: "Better than I expected." Also note that my
expectations were pretty low. It's not up to the
standard of Ghostbusters, but not worthless either.
The plot centers about a bunch of "nerds" attempting to form a fraternity
and compete with the fraternity full of "jocks". It is mostly Animal house
style humor, though probably not as good. Overall I guess if you
liked Animal house or have considered seeing it it probably worthwile.
....Laurence
UCLA Computer Science Dept.
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It centers around two freshman starting at Adam's college. The AB (alpha beta)
fraternity house burns down in a wild party and AB kicks the freshman out
of the dorm since they had no place to live. All the atheletes live in AB.
The freshman wind up living in the gym until they find a house of there
own and attempt to start there own fraternity. They find an old house
and manage to a probationary charter with lambda lambda lambda, an all black
fraternity with no house at Adam's college. Then they have to fight with
AB to establish themselves which they do and there by make the campus
safe for nerds.
The characters in nerd frat include a wide variety of people, many
which might not be considered nerds. (They seemed to have adopted a definetion
whereby intelligence and social ineptness is the criterion. I've always
considered nerds to be moderately intelligent, but not bright.) This includes
a Lamar, a gay black person and Booger an obnoxious, dirty, joint smoking
person.
There is, ofcourse, much involvement with the sororities, one
full of nerds and one full of cheerleaders. Much of this humor is
sex oriented.
At on point the nerds plant video camera's in the cheerleaders
house's bathrooms etc. and beam it over to there house. They also sell
pies with nude of the photos of the cheer leaders at the bottom at the
school carnival. The nerds also manage to pull of some tricks such as
putting some "deep heat lotion" in all the atheletes jock straps or
using drugs to avoid the effects of alcohol in the tricycle race that
involves downing a mug of bear between each lap.
In the end the win the Homecoming carnival and therefore gain
control of the greek council.