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      National Lampoon's Class Reunion

      R 1982 1h 25m Comedy List
      0% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 39% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score Lizzie Borden High alumnus Walter Baylor (Blackie Dammett) is still traumatized by a nasty senior prank he endured. Years later, he breaks out of an asylum and returns to his school during a class reunion to wreak havoc on those who drove him insane. While the classmates are celebrating, many start mysteriously dying. The remaining students, including popular Bunny Packard (Miriam Flynn) and loser Gary Nash (Fred McCarren), try to find the deranged killer before it is too late. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member It's not peak National Lampoon but it has some good jokes. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member What the hell did I just watch?! I want to give it 0 Stars but then again it was written by one of my heroes, John Hughes. This was his first flick so I'm not sorry I saw it. This spoof of teen sex romps and slasher movies is absolute garbage. Not funny. Not scary and more importantly NOT FUNNY! Only see it if you are a complete-ist like me and have a desire to see every thing written by John Hughes. On to Nate And Hayes! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member early john hughes written film is totally uneven and only slightly funny, a crazed killer goes on a rampage on his alma mater. still interesting to see a future director in his early stages. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member one of my fav's from child hood Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member National Lampoon's Class Reunion was John Hughes' first writing effort, so I thought I'd check it out even though it was a critically panned one. I didn't plan to like it though. National Lampoon's Class Reunion has a good feel to it because it takes place within a simple small scale setting and has a consistent comedic feel which comes with its collection of goofy characters which makes the mood of the slasher element lighter. But when the slasher elements kick inm the film just goes downhill, and the once promising comedic premise is turned into a repetitive series of stale gags with little comedic success. And the slasher elements aren't intense or funny either, so at best National Lampoon's Class Reunion proves to be an ambitious but utterly failed attempt to combine slasher and spoof elements into a single film by John Hughes who clearly had not flourished his writing genius just yet since he forked over a screenplay which melts over the course of the film and falters under the handling of inexperienced director Michael Miller. Have you ever heard of him? Didn't think so. Here is the reason why. National Lampoon's Class Reunion does show potential for John Hughes but doesn't show him at his best in the slightest, because while few of the jokes will supply laughs in the first part of the film, there isn't nearly enough over the course of the film since all it does is repeat a few basic jokes again and again for 84 minutes which makes it seem significantly longer than it actually is. Essentially, National Lampoon's Class Reunion is a failure. Its ambitious, it shows John Hughes' potential as a writer and has a few laughs, but overall its just lacking in laughs, thrills or any comprehensive minds that could have been used to combine the elements together into something better instead of what it ended up becoming. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Delores Salk (Zane Busby) makes the movie! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times National Lampoon's Class Reunion has its funny moments, but they're rare enough that we're acutely aware of them. Rated: 2/4 May 8, 2019 Full Review Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy [An] unfunny R-rated comedy that pulls all of its punches. Rated: 2/10 Sep 13, 2011 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...a cheap, amateurish attempt to cash in on the National Lampoon name. Rated: 1/4 Jul 11, 2005 Full Review Ryan Cracknell Movie Views Rated: 1/5 Aug 4, 2003 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Rated: 1/5 Jul 30, 2002 Full Review Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Rated: 1/5 Jul 26, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Lizzie Borden High alumnus Walter Baylor (Blackie Dammett) is still traumatized by a nasty senior prank he endured. Years later, he breaks out of an asylum and returns to his school during a class reunion to wreak havoc on those who drove him insane. While the classmates are celebrating, many start mysteriously dying. The remaining students, including popular Bunny Packard (Miriam Flynn) and loser Gary Nash (Fred McCarren), try to find the deranged killer before it is too late.
      Director
      Michael Miller
      Screenwriter
      John Hughes, Stu Krieger
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Feb 8, 2000
      Runtime
      1h 25m
      Sound Mix
      Surround
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.85:1)