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Without any further ado, Phil's List!
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF BONER JAMS 1982 – 1986
A virtual high school of hilarity.
Ha ha just kidding! I’ll start the list off with the
kingslayer of the genre. Though it has all the elements of a classic boner
comedy, it’s perhaps the most depressing laugh riot of the ‘80s, showing its
young audience a harsh truth: love is hell.
Legendary exploitation filmmaker Greydon Clark distills
everything great about the 1980s (punks, nerds, valley girls, wild fashion, and
Pac-Man) into one video game-fueled, late-night partyblast! Featuring extensive
use of classic machines like Galaxian, Pole Position, Super Pac-Man and Satan’s
Hollow - in addition to an all-time-great theme song and an epic battle against
parental disapproval - this is a film for people totally into the neverending
pursuit of brain-shattering FUUUUUNNNNNNNNN!!!!
Three middle-aged dudes visit California to have a sexy time at the beach
but quickly learn that what they have won’t cut it. Enter scammin', jammin'
Scotty Palmer and his total-rager-of-a-buddy Rag (Children of the Corn’s
Courtney Gains!) to help out. This sex comedy is one of the best of the bunch,
bolstered by Vixen briefly performing one of the best songs of the decade,
Computer Madness!
Hot Moves is an amateurish mess but has a laid back charm
and vintage Venice Beach & Hollywood Blvd authenticity that’s hard to
resist. Private School star Michael Zorek leads a pack of young horndogs that
makes a pact to lose their virginity by the end of summer. Yep, the classic
boner jam plot.
They say you can tell a lot about a person based on their
favorite Meatballs movies… and I’m a Part II fan all the way! Though this entry
in the franchise eschews total sex to focus on camp hijinks and inspired lunacy
(it’s rated PG like the similarly themed and equally great Oddballs), it’s
still a total ball. C’mon, what sort of asshole wouldn’t love a comedy starring
Richard Mulligan, Hamilton Camp, Paul Reubens, John Larroquette and an adorable
ET-knockoff named Meathead?
Like many Crown International comedies, Weekend Pass
is unremarkable but pleasant, existing as barely passable entertainment to fill
late night cable or drive-in triple bills. Following the amorous exploits of
four wise-guy sailors through loosely connected segments (one featuring a young
Phil Hartman as a stand-up comedian), the film’s one claim to immortality is a
totally killer theme song!
Oh boy do they deliver! Antics and calamities abound as a
break-dance crew moonlight as pizza delivery boys. Or pizza delivery boys
moonlight as a hot break-dance crew. I guess it could go both ways. If you’ve
been dying to see a combination of Loverboy (1989) and Breakin’ (1984), this is
the movie you need in your life.
The ultimate sex comedy cast: Academy Award winner Tim
Robbins, Fright Night’s Stephen Geoffreys, Valley Girl’s Cameron Dye, Walker
Texas Ranger’s Sheree J. Wilson, Hamburger The Motion Picture’s Leigh
McCloskey, Married With Children’s Amanda Bearse, Re-Animator’s Barbara
Crampton and (holy shit!) John Vernon! Nerds! Frat dudes! Bikinis!
Beaver High’s four horniest screwups are sent to Coxwell Academy where they’ll break every rule
for a private lesson with sexy new French teacher Miss Mona Lott. This is THE
ONE, the ultimate cinematic embodiment of the teenage male, the boner comedy
distilled down to the bone, every moment sexualized to a new height of hormoned
hilarity with terrible puns & phallic one-liners. Jaw-dropping!
The comedy that serves up the laughs… and dishes out the
bull! Fellow Hamburger-file Zack Carlson describes it best: “It’s a relentless
storm of grease, gags and gratuitous nudity, peppered with countless chunks of
‘80s insanity, burger-based rock anthems and what is possibly the most racist
fart joke to ever invade a VCR.”
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Haven't seen all of these, but my guess is that LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN stands head and shoulders above the rest. I never tire of its classic, broken boner of an ending.
MEATBALLS PART II is one of those early HBO memories...one which I probably haven't revisited since those days in '84 / '85. If I'm not mistaken, it continues the '80s lowbrow comedy tradition of having a character--usually a villain and / or douchebag--end up naked in public.
Never a big fan of HARDBODIES, which was only slightly less disappointing to the teenage me than SPRING BREAK. Haven't seen the others aside from FRATERNITY VACATION. JOYSTICKS holds the most curiosity for me because of the presence of Joe Don and Jon Gries as a wacko punk.
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