Critic Reviews
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Los Angeles Times
It's no thigh-slapper like the Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School," but it's exceptionally good-natured and perceptive, and Harmon, in his first starring screen role, is a real charmer. [22 July 1987]
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| 70 |
Washington Post
Proud to be junk food, but it still tackles the serious subjects of illiteracy, teen-age pregnancy and young adult alcoholism. [22 July 1987]
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| 38 |
USA Today
Jack Curry
Summer School is like summer school: you go, then quickly realize you would much rather be doing something else. [22 July 1987]
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| 30 |
The New York Times
The film's only bright idea is a duo named Chain Saw (Cameron) and Dave (Riley), who love horror films and instigate grisly but imaginative practical jokes, like pretending to be attacked by bunnies when the class makes a field trip to a petting zoo. [22 July 1987, p.C22]
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
It has a lack of ambition and energy that is almost total: It's the most this movie can do to roll over and ask for a little more lotion on its back. [22 July 1987]
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Harmon proves that he can act stupid, and that's not enough to make the movie funny… You're supposed to like Freddy (Harmon), and you're supposed to like his brainless students… But you hate everybody. [24 July 1987]
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| 20 |
TV Guide
Staff (Non Credited)
Another failure in Harmon's attempt to move from TV to the big screen.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Here are some of Summer School's favorite things: idiocy, illiteracy, irresponsibility, drunkenness, dumbness and debauchery. Piqued? [24 July 1987]
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| 12 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A comedy so listless, leisurely and unspirited that it was an act of the will for me to care about it, even while I was watching it.
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