Very well executed

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

My mom introduced this movie to me and my brother and sung its praises like no other. She told us that this was done by Carl Reiner, father of the legendary Rob Reiner. Like with so many other movies that came out of the 1980's, this is one that will never be forgotten. In addition, this is a unique high school movie that will leave you in stitches because you laugh so hard. Then again, that's always been Carl's claim to fame: make you laugh so hard that you forget about a bad day.It all begins with Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon before he joined "NCIS"), a devil-may-care gym teacher who is laser-focused on going to Hawaii for summer vacation. Then comes the principal and practically forces him to teach remedial English for summer school. There goes the summer vacation and he has to teach a motley crew of students who don't exactly have the best academic records in the world.Two of the students he has to teach are horror movie fans who know their way around special effects and the like. You also have pregnant Rhonda (Shawnee Smith before she was in "Saw" and just before she was in "The Blob"), as well as a foreign exchange student and a surfer girl who likes Shoop more than a typical teacher and student should. Everyone has their own story to tell and he has to deal with it.Probably one of the best scenes in the movie is when Shoop decides to leave and the students make a stand to get him back by scaring the living daylights out of a temporary substitute with the help of their horror movie aficionado classmates, essentially scaring her off. They then go down to the beach, still in their horror movie attire, and plead to Shoop to come back. He concedes, of course, and the students eventually take a formal English test (the fill in the bubble kind, of course), proving the cynical principal wrong in so many ways.Needing a good laugh? Had a bad day? Sit down and watch "Summer School." It's one of the craziest comedies to ever come out of the 1980's and I guarantee you will watch it over and over again.

Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas, Dean Cameron and Courtney Thorne-Smith star in Carl Reiner's 1987 comedy. This begins with the students and staff of Ocean Front high school counting down to their summer vacation. Gym teacher, Freddy Shoop (Harmon) is ready to go to Hawaii, but gets talked into teaching summer school English by vice principal, Phil Gills (Thomas) to a group of failing misfits. Alley (Cheers) plays teacher, Robin Bishop whom Freddy falls for and helps him with his class, Smith (According to Jim) plays Pam, one of Freddy's students who has a crush on him at first and Cameron (Men at Work) plays horror fanatic, Francis aka Chainsaw who is a huge fan of the film, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." I've always liked this good 80's comedy, Harmon and Alley are great together and Reiner also makes a cameo as a teacher. I recommend this.

Summer School is a pleasant teen comedy about a teacher who is forced to take a summer school class of slackers who have screwed up their last school year. They don't want to be there, he doesn't want to be there, they try to get out of it, he tries to chat up another teacher....It is gentle, routine stuff. Mark Harmon does well, as does most of the cast.For me, the movie is spoiled by Dean Cameron, who lent his never-funny presence to a number of raunchy-ish comedies in the nineties. He seems to have a vocal fan base who love what he does here: I have to say that I didn't. And don't. And ditto everything else I have ever seen him in (and as someone who rented a lot of videos in the nineties, I have seen him in a lot of movies!).

I love, love, love the film Summer School. It is one of my favorite movies, and I love 80s movies. My favorite characters in this film is chainsaw and Dave. They love horror movies just like me, and have Freddie Kruger on their locker, and I love Freddie. Also i met Shawnee Smith, she was at a horror convention. Whoever hasn't seen this movie has to see it. Trust me you'll love it just like i do. First of all great cast, great director. I love Dave because he is from Stand By Me, and he met Corey Feldman, and I just love him. Another thing R.I.P. to Gary Riley the guy who played Dave. He has just died from a major car accident. I loved him. Sorry I'm such a movie freak, cant help it, but don't feel like typing all of my favorite movies. Love everybody from Summer School, and great job.