MOVIE HAS CLASS
By Awesome Zara
The Bottom Shelf #119
August 2, 2007

There are these movies that people remember in a different light once enough years have gone by.

Once some of the young actors in them have become famous for other roles and people have fun looking back and reviewing their former work. What people tend to forget is how a movie was received when it was first released.

Thanks to the beauty of the internet, we can now rediscover just what a movie meant to the audience that it was released for. Class was a summer movie, meant to capitalize on the horny teenagers during their break from school. And while many people remember this movie fondly now, it's certainly not been shown the rerelease & updating love that other movies of its time have been given.
Maybe it's because this is a hard sell. An R rated comedy which contained its share of foul language but only a brief amount of gratuitous nudity (awesome bless a young and willing Virginia Madsen), for a movie which is based on a teenage prep student having sex with a hot older woman, the sex is brief and not as risque as most R rated movie fans are hoping to find. There is a genuine sense of love that develops by McCarthy for his sexual mentor and even more rare, there is a nearly unheard of sense of loyalty to his roommate and friend, the guy who just so happens to be the older woman's son.





Andrew McCarthy With Rob as Franklin "Skip" Burroughs, IV
Class really is in a class all its own. It manages to be sexy and smart while still allowing wiggle room for the stupidity of '80's comedy. What I've always liked best about it is the angle with which Rob Lowe's character was played.



A teenager of privilege and wealth, he's confident but not arrogant, swaggering but not so full of false bravado that he's an asshole. Eschewing the normal story arc where the guy is a jerk spoiled by money, Lowe is actually a really nice guy who has as many faults as the next guy but is also willing to step up and assume accountability for them. Of course, it doesn't hurt that he's just so pleasant to look at.

Favorite Line:

"Next time you're feelin' sad and blue, don't expect old Skipper here to put on his big red nose and floppy shoes just pour vous. Adios, Mr. Morose."




Rob as Franklin "Skip" Burroughs, IV




































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