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Up the Academy Reviews - Metacritic. 1980. R. Warner Bros. 1 h 27 m. Summary This puber-comedy is a kind of mixture between Animal House and Police Academy. Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to the Sheldon R. Wienberg Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party ...
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Ron Leibman
Rated: 2.5/5 • May 30, 2007. In an attempt to follow National Lampoon, it was the first and only film produced by MAD Magazine. One viewing reveals why. Rated: 2/4 • May 30, 2007. Notable only ...
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
- Ron Leibman
- Comedy
Up the Academy: Directed by Robert Downey Sr.. With Wendell Brown, Tommy Citera, Hutch Parker, Ralph Macchio. Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy.
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- Comedy
- Robert Downey Sr.
- 1980-06-06
Up the Academy. Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy (often shortened to Up the Academy) is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Robert Downey Sr. and starring Wendell Brown, Tommy Citera, Ron Leibman, Harry Teinowitz, Hutch Parker, Ralph Macchio, Tom Poston, King Coleman, and Barbara Bach. The plot concerns the antics of a group of misfits ...
The New York Times Vincent Canby The New York Times Vincent Canby Up the Academy sets out to offend almost everybody, including women, blacks, homosexuals, Arabs, the military, and so on, but they've all been more efficiently offended by other, better movies.
Mad Magazine made a break for National Lampoon's style success with their one and only foray into film with the Robert Downey Snr directed Up the Academy. A puerlie adolescent teen sex comedy; heavy on the smut and gay panic and wearing its anti authoritarian credentials as a badge of honour, it focuses on a group of misfit kids sent to Military School and plays like Stripes starring 14 year-olds.
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Appeared in this uproarious adolescent comedy about a group of mischievous military school misfits forced to suffer under a sadistic Major (Ron Leibman). Directed by the independent-minded Robert Downey Sr., the film features (Barbara Bach) as a gun-toting armaments specialist and (Tom Poston) as an instructor who loves bed checks.
