(1983)
1.5
Jeremy Wheeler
Private School is an oversexed '80s teen comedy that takes the cake as one of the horniest of the genre. While that could be said of much of the films at that time, the amount of out-of-control hormonal activity in this 1983 laugher is downright astounding. From Phoebe Cates to Matthew Modine to even Ray Walston(!), every single lustful soul in the movie's turned-on cast is looking to get some from somebody else by any means possible -- sort of like naïve virgins in a sex-shop candy store gone horribly wrong. While Cates was riding high off of her newfound goddess status after Fast Times at Ridgemont High the year before, it's actually Betsy Russell that stole most young men's hearts in the audience, thanks less to her stellar looks than to her legendary nude slo-mo horseback riding scene. And while most of the gags fall embarrassingly short, Private School ends up not too much better or worse than its peers. At the very least, the movie makes up for its so-so humor with its own brand of sophomoric sexual perversity that's good for a few shocks along the way. Two things it does have going for it are its credit sequences, which feature possibly one of the best opening credit songs in sex comedy history, while the end scroll is preceded by all the girls in the graduating class mooning the camera. Private School might be a product of its time, but for some, it'll be worth a viewing for these gusto moments of out-of-control '80s comedic sexuality.
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Private School (1983)
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