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National Lampoon's Class Reunion

USA 1982
produced by
Matty Simmons for ABC
directed by Michael Miller
starring Gerrit Graham, Michael Lerner, Misty Rowe, Blackie Dammett, Fred McCarren, Miriam Flynn, Stephen Furst, Mews Small, Shelley Smith, Zane Buzby, Jacklyn Zeman, Barry Diamond, Art Evans, Marla Pennington, Randy Powell, Anne Ramsey, Chuck Berry, Jim Staahl, Richard Hawley, Gary Hibbard, Steve Tracy, Isabel West, Diane Black, Con Covert, Robin Eurich, Anyavel Glynn, Wendy Goldman, Terry Green, Chris Hubbell, Timothy Phillips, Roger Hamilton Spotts, John Hughes, Danny Nero
written by John Hughes, music by Peter Bernstein, Mark Goldenberg, special makeup effects by Rick Stratton

National Lampoon

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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After 10 years out of highschool, it's class reunion for the class of '72. Bad thing though that at their graduation party, the kids had played a trick on Walter (Blackie Dammett) that led to him having sex with his own sister and consequently turned him into a nutcase ... and he has chosen the class reunion to have his revenge on his old classmates, especially goddie two-shoes blonde Meredith (Shelley Smith), whom he, like everyone else, had a crush on back in school. Before anyone knows, Walter starts killing people and locking the whole class into their old school building, and only a psychiatrist, Dr. Young (Michael Lerner), claims he knows what's going on, but he proves to be pretty useless. Actually, only Gary (Fred McCarren), the class's nobody whom nobody seems to really remember, is doing something productive and ultimately even finds a way out, but that's when Dr. Young has already persuaded Meredith to act as bait for Walter - but what he didn't tell her was that he himself is actually Walter in disguise. Watler manages to strip her and is just about to kill her when Gary interferes, and ultimately the united forces of the class of '72 can persuade Walter to give himself up ... and Gary gets the girl, Meredith, though she still can't really remember his name ...

 

This could have been a brilliant slasher-parody, at a time when slasher movies were produced a dime a dozen. This could have been, but it isn't. Obviously neither scriptwriter John Hughes nor Michael Miller have seen too many slashers back in the day, so instead of being topical, National Lampoon's Class Reunion is just a series of old and non-specific gags that seem to have been pushed into a slasher context rather by accident. That Miller's direction lacks any proper comic timing doesn't help one bit in that respect, nor does the complete lack of creepy atmosphere. And that obviuosly, none of the actors seem to have talent as comedians is just one more thing that makes National Lampoon's Class Reunion decidedly less than special.

Unless you hate to be amused and/or frightened, this is definitely not worth your time.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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