gwnightscream
Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong, Timothy Busfield, Larry B. Scott, Courteney Thorne-Smith, Donald Gibb, Bradley Whitford and Anthony Edwards star in this 1987 comedy sequel. This entry has nerds, Lewis (Carradine), Booger (Armstrong), Poindexter (Busfield) and Lamar (Scott) traveling to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a convention to represent Adams College fraternity, Lambda Lambda Lambda. Whitford (Billy Madison) plays Roger, the Chapter President of the Alpha Beta fraternity who tries to get them expelled by framing them, but underestimates them when they decide to fight back. Smith (Summer School) plays Sunny, a hotel clerk who finds romance with Lewis, Gibb (Bloodsport) returns as Alpha Beta member, Ogre who eventually joins the Nerds and Edwards (Top Gun) also returns briefly as Lewis' pal, Gilbert. I grew up watching this sequel and always enjoyed it almost as much as the original. The cast is great and I recommend this.
funky_cherry86
Revenge Of The Nerds II Nerds In Paradise may not a comedy classic like it's predecessor Revenge Of The Nerds but it's still an enjoyable movie to watch.This time our nerd heroes must once again fight back against their most hated enemy. Robert Carradine's character Lewis grows up quite a bit and stands up for his fraternity brothers.Curtis Armstrong is as always his funny self when playing nose picker Booger his character is more hilarious, he says some great lines in the film. A year has passed since a group of intelligent and awkward young men banded together to form a fraternity to fight back against the Alpha Betas. They succeeded in their battle of brains vs. brawn guaranteeing nerd freedom, Now Lewis (Carradine) and his friends Wormser (Cassese), Pointdexter (Busfield), Lamar (Scott) & Booger (Armstrong) are about to represent Adams College at a united fraternity conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Once there they are prosecuted and picked on again by another chapter of the Alpha Betas run by Roger Latimore (Whitford). Sunny Carstairs (Smith) a hotel employee befriends the nerdy gang and falls in love with Lewis.Towards the end after being marooned on an island the boys find military equipment and using an army tank they head back to the conference to confront Roger and his group with the help of Ogre (Gibb) who becomes a member of the Lambda Lambdas after being kicked out of the Alphas.This film may not be a laugh fest but certainly provides very little humour and memorable quotes.
johnny_07652
I am so glad they did this sequel. The two that followed are inconsequential but this sequel, Nerds in Paradise, just HAD to be done. Why??? They absolutely had to follow up the greatest college Fraternity movie (yes, better than Animal House) with the greatest Spring Break movie, especially since the 1980's was the decade that modern "Spring Break" as we know it hit its stride. The 80's are when students started to flock to Ft. Lauderdale and the rest of Florida, as well as to other havens across the nation such as Lake Havasu and the Gulf Coast/Redneck Riviera.Anyway, these guys had to get to Florida and be a REAL Fraternity at some point. I like the angle of involving national fraternities, which brings in NEW Alpha Betas, and I love how the inter-fraternity hatred extends beyond the local schools to the national chapters.This movie also does a great job incorporating the oh so hot "Beastie Boys" style of rapping by introducing Barry Sobel's character, "Stewart", a White Castle employee (in Florida, where there are NO White Castles - only Krystals) who happens to be a white rapper that sounds like he's right out of the Beastie Boys! I was a college Freshman in 1986, and I remember clearly the Beastie Boys being the hottest thing on campus that year. EVERYBODY liked them.I also love the beach/vacation/road trip quality this movie has. The first Revenge of the Nerds is a classic in its own right, no doubt. It did a great job establishing itself as a classic and really established the genre of wacky college frat movies. But what good is establishing the genre if you don't take it somewhere? Nerds in Paradise does exactly that. It profits off the foundation laid by the first movie. Many other movies also fed off these two movies (i.e. "Fraternity Vacation", another Florida Spring Break movie with a nerdy hero, etc.).I love that the nerds are able to always use what they have to "beat out" the jocks and have their voices heard, and especially because this means having a musical performance with lasers and lights. Hilarious!!! This was also a good way to work in the Beastie Boys-esquire Barry Sobel Rap, which establishes him as one of the nerds although he's not part of the fraternity. It is the highest honor a non-fraternity member could get, next to being Lewis Skolnick's girlfriend I suppose, HEEEEEEPP!!!! I own a DVD that has Revenge of the Nerds on one side and RotN II on the other side - I think it was under 10 bucks on sale, and it was worth far more than that to me. I'd have paid 50 bucks for it, but I won't tell that to the DVD company. Weird to have a DVD that you actually Flip over and play the other side, though...My favorite line in the movie is from Roger, however: "OK. Maybe I did. What are you gonna do about it, Skolnick? You gonna make a little speech? It's not gonna do any good. Wanna know why? Because I'm strong and you're weak. Because I'm the type of guy that everybody here wants to be like, and you are pathetic. That's the way it is. That's the way it's always gonna be, and there's nothing you or your pencil-neck geek friends can do or say about it. Comprende, dickhead?" Bradley Whitford was such an awesome Alpha Beta, and that's saying a lot considering he had to follow Ted McGinley (Stan Gables) who was awesome in the first movie. Roger was, throughout the movie, a PERFECT jock/preppy snob, I really think Whitford did such a great job with this role that he might be the best actor in the whole movie!!! The line I quoted above just PERFECTLY sums up his and the entire Alpha Betas' attitudes, all into one, in-your-face, simplified, short summary. It starts with a brazen admission to framing the Tri-Lambs, goes into a diatribe against them based purely on bigoted, hateful perceptions, and caps everything off with a stupid sounding insult which no doubt Roger himself thought was "cool" and creative. Just PERFECT. Whitford's delivery of it was what made it work.One little problem I have with it has to do with Ogre's "conversion" to being a Nerd. The Nerds seem to always stress individualism and "be proud of who/what you are". Well, Ogre is a big strong guy - a jock. It is good that he sees the Nerds for the nice people they are, and the Alpha Betas for the jerks they are; but why should Ogre have to stop being a Jock to stop being an Alpha Beta??? Anyway, I am definitely analyzing this too much, because this film is about fun and having fun, and overblown clichés and stereotypes, and turning Ogre into a "Nerd" is just part of all that. I love his initiation: "Oh Lambda Truest, I am the newest, member of your clan. And in your..uh.." (the others help Ogre out by quietly cuing him - "hallways") "HALLways...I will always, be Proud of what I am. HEEEP!! HEEEEPPPP!!!! HEEEEEEEPPP!!!" Funny how Ogre's laugh turns into a nerd laugh, magically, from reciting his oath to join the Tri-Lambs! But he's still Ogre, and drinks messily from the cup, like he did from the cup in the first movie. Anyway, this movie is HIGHLY recommended if you enjoy fun, light, gratuitous, cliché-ridden movies which are satires of themselves, just as the first one was. If you believe films ought to be serious, somber events which evoke deep thought, then don't bother, unless you're ready to live a little and relax a bit, then this movie is for you also.
grahamsj3
As with many sequels, this one is, alas, a definite step down from the original Nerds film. The nerds are back, for the most part, the originals, but the story is written so differently from the first. This film attempts to be a bit more humorous than the first, but it falls flat. The humor is this one is the lowbrow type of humor so common today. It is either sophomoric sexual innuendo, slapstick or scatological in nature and it's just not funny. I loved the first flick and, expecting this not to be quite as good, was nonetheless quite disappointed in it. The story line in this is also somewhat similar to the first film and didn't seem very original to me. The acting is just as good as it was in the original film but the writing and storyline are just not up to par with the original, so not even decent acting can save it. A 5 only.
