Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

hellraiser7 This film is one of my honorable mentions of school comedies, it's also another comedy that passed under the radar, like a student passed by a bus. I really got into this movie in the latter part of my adolescence and was looking into crude/teen comedies which were starting to become more frequent in the mid to late 90's. This film you could say is pretty much "Animal House" but in High School, I think that's makes sense going this direction just as "Animal House" parodied/satire a little on students and their subculture in Collage, this does it for teen and their subculture in High School.This isn't I would say a great comedy by any means it's not trying to be, this is one of those comedies where you just simply turn your brain off and have fun, and that part of the purpose of most comedies anyway to just have fun. I really like the characters both teachers and students their colorful characters and each of them have some memorable moments. Let alone I actually really like the high school they're in, despite the wild and crude company it's strangely a school that actually functions and is clean (or clean as can be), there's no bullies or violence anywhere (or none I can detect), except for one preppy jerk but he's easy to deal with. Other than that I would of liked to gone to this school.Dags is my favorite character whom is surprisingly by Jeremy Renner. This was his film debut and it's one heck of a debut, this movie seems like the least likely film this famous actor would ever do/did; but then again same can be said about a lot of other actors out there. Also, at the time he sort of looks like actor Brendan Fraser if you can believe that. Jeremy is just great at playing a total rebel slacker, what I like about him is he's not afraid to put it out there or do what he feels like or feels must be done. He's also slightly determined in getting what he want as there is his pursuit in winning over the character Lisa whom is pretty, she's a person that is on the studious side and just doesn't know when to loosen up, and she does once she spends more time with Dags. Dags has some good lines, he says my favorite line in the film, "Let's do some Van Damage!" I just think that's an awesome quote, I like the say that sometimes if I feel like being aggressive, and on a side note Van Damme is one of my favorite action stars which make it more fun.Principal Todd Moss by Matt Fewer is funny, he's basically the school authority archetype, whom is just extremely uptight from his voice and wardrobe. He's trying so very hard (or very little) in trying to keep everything at the school going right. It's just funny how much grief he is being dealt from Dags and the fellow students which makes him lose a little of his cool. Tommy Chong as Red is funny despite only in the film for a small amount of time, as he's pretty much playing the same character he's played in his "Cheech and Chong" films and as usual does it well. It's funny that this guy has became a bus driver despite the fact he really shouldn't be driving, though fitting for the company he's escorting. It's also funny how much grief he gives the principal showing how much disrespect he has for authority figures and is clearly on the kids' side, from not opening the doors unless he says the magic word, it cracks me up when we find out what that word is. On a side note you also see famous voice actress Tara Strong whom looked pretty good and has a little memorable moment in the film. As well as Nicole de Boer whom is a sci fi TV show alumni from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "The Dead Zone", she has a really small role in this as well and say's another favorite quote with some girl in the psa movie scene "Poor Suzy."Other than that, the film is just plain stupid fun full of stupid fun antics. There are lots of them, from an assembly scene when there is some hippie/ Christian rock group called "High on Life" (they seriously should have rethought that band title) whom is singing let's just say a song not on my favorites list. Dags and his friend Reggie of course put on a cool heavy metal song and the assembly turns into a rave, I remember thinking "yeah, now this is an assembly." A scene where al the students are watching one of those bad black and white psa movies. This scene sort of predates "Rifftrax" as we see the students mocking the film as it goes on. That scene always cracks me up because it's true, a lot of those psa films in the schools weren't always on par in quality or some of them can be strange, despite the good message they try too hard to send. Let alone the fact that the main guy and girl character always had a name that rhymes or ends with the letter y like Jimmy, Billy, Suzy, etc. Either there weren't that many names at the time, or the writer was too lazy to think up any other names.There is another little scene which was sweet and funny when Dag's friend Reggie and this shy girl, whom throughout the film always had her eyes covered. Both are watching "Jason Goes to Hell" and she says something of Jason and Freddy fandom which is funny but is really on the nose as that comment was prolific to the film "Freddy versus Jason".There is also this rather strange subplot involving a psycho crossing guard (played by Kevin McDonald from "Kids in the Hall") whom let's just say his Starship isn't operating on warp speed. It's just funny as we see him relentlessly pursuing Reggie for a crack comment he's made (man that guy really can't take a joke) and at the same time taking his fandom for the show "Star Trek" too far. There are several jokes and references on the show going on in this subplot, the writer obvious was a big fan of Trek. "Senior Trip" is worth a trip.Rating: 3 stars

Lee Eisenberg I should say that "Senior Trip" is mostly one of the silly comedies that they released in the 1990s (of course, it was intended as such). I guess that on one level, it has an important lesson about paying attention to what happens in the government. In my opinion, the best parts were some of the briefer things: the guy chasing the bus, J. Edgar Hoover's grave*, the porno movie in the hotel room, and the epilogues. Otherwise, this isn't the sort of movie that you'd go out of your way to watch. Although I have to admit, Matt Frewer (who turns 50 today) and Tommy Chong play great characters.*The student was right: J. Edgar Hoover was a fascist. You may have heard the news that just recently came out that Hoover wanted to round up large numbers of Americans in 1950.

Pepper Anne Senior Trip is one of the last few funny movies in the National Lampoon series before they gave way to ultra cheap movies, horribly unoriginal scripts, and poor comedy.Welcome to Fairmount High, the educational institution of a braindead student body overseen by the idiotic Principal Moss (Matt Frewer) (ala Principal Rooney, only funnier). After the amazingly funny team of D'Agastino and Reggie's plans for a senior class party at the prinicpal's house lands them and some of their buddies in detention (I don't know why the selected few were the only ones to get busted). Only shielding themselves from a harsh punishment by reasoning that somehow the school system is responsible for their troublemaking ways, Principal Moss gives them an assignment: write a letter to the government citing their grievances for the poor education system. This is something Moss will regret later as the President receives the letter. He calls up the Senator who's state Fairmount High is in and tells them to send the class up to Washington because these kids are going to help sponsor his education reform bill. The last thing anyone in their right mind would do is stick these burnout party kids on a bus (for some Van-damage!) for a couple days. And with Tommy Chong, as "Red" (named for his immunity to horse tranquilizer as he demonstrates later), as the bus driver, all hell breaks loose! The President is in for a big surprise, and that's exactly what Senator Lerner wants. Once he meets the group of misfits, especially Miosky (Eric Edwards) the silent bonehead chow hound, he knows that their appearance before the committee will pull support from the President's bill, and permit him to introduce his own education reform bill.Meanwhile, Dag's slow talking pothead friend, Reggie, is being chased by a psychotic Trekkie crossing guard, Travis (Kevin McDonald), who Reggie earlier insulted, adding a hilarious subplot of the deranged wacko dressed in the Captain's uniform and carrying a blow-up doll who just won't seem to leave Reggie alone. The movie, albeit an incredibly stupid plot, it is outrageously funny, watching Dags, Reggie, and the gang foil Principal Moss's plan to keep these misfits from causing too much trouble. Besides Dag's, the arsonist, and Reggie, his spaced out friend, there's Virus, the horny Audio/Visual geek; Wanda, Reggie's equally spaced out girlfriend;, Lisa, the brain; Herbert, the guy who is in perpetual mourning; Meg, the lesbian; Steve, the preppie jerk who gets his just deserts; Miosky; and Carla, the nymphomaniac. These kids do everything from locking their principal in a flooding convenient store bathroom to steal beer, to drugging their principal and chaperone, a timid math teacher, to throwing a rad party in a crude man's huge hotel room. It is one of the better teen comedies you'll find in the late 90s and one of the last few National Lampoon movies. I recommend checking it out.

love_biscuit Usually, a big indicator that a movie is worth seeing is if Ebert and his partner (Siskel, as it was in 1995) give it "two thumbs up". Most of the time, any studio that releases the movie that gets two thumbs up will rush to print the accolade on the box of the movie when it is released to video. But if it DOESN'T get two thumbs up, there's no need to worry because there is bound to be somebody who has something good to say about a movie. I mention this because when I rented this movie a long time ago, not one review graced the cover of this train wreck. Not one. I would soon discover why.when I watched this movie I was 15 years old, so you figure I was part of this movie's target audience. But I can tell you, as a 15-year old kid, I didn't laugh at all. The movie was totally, utterly unfunny.The story follows a bunch of high school seniors who embark on a trip to Washington, D.C. A grab-bag of mindless high school stereotypes (handsome rebellious guy, anti-social guy, disgusting fat moron, smart goody-two shoes, computer nerd, promiscuous outcast) get thrown into detention and are assigned to write an essay, which will be sent to Washington, explaining the faults in the modern American education system. The smart goody two shoes, Miss Tracy Milford (Valerie Mahaffey) is the only one who actually writes a paper, and wouldn't you know, the President reads it and loves it. Enter the senior trip.I hoped that at least things would get funny here, as road trip movies usually involve unusual situations/characters. It's cliche, but who cares if it's done well, right? Well, it's not done well here. Kevin McDonald, the only person in this movie I recognized from other projects (aside from Tommy Chong in an amazingly humor-devoid role as the bus driver who is a raging drug addict) plays a weird Star Trek-obsessed crossing guard, who has a personal vendetta against one of the seniors, and chases the group to D.C. Don't ask.After a series of stupid and endless scenes, we finally end up in D.C., where the President finds out that the group of kids aren't the scholars he thought that they were. This leads to a mercilessly banal, sappy speech from the seniors about how it's too late for them, but not for tomorrow's children, or something smiliar. I can believe that one could be convinced that public education is in bad shape by parading these kids around, but I can't believe that the response solicited from such a display would be the ever popular 'slow clap', started by the President himself. After that, the movie somehow ends, but not soon enough.I identified with none of the characters portrayed in the movie. Even Tracy Milford, who at one point looked like she was above the rest of the crew, totally betrayed me when it was revealed that she had feelings for Mark "Dags" D'Agastino (Jeremy Remner, the "star" of the movie), a punk that no girl of intelligence or ambition could ever find attractive. While most teen comedies have outlandish characters, there is always at least a grain of truth to them. I was spoon-fed a series of what looked like an out-of-touch writer's uneducated guess of what they thought high school kids were. So awful was this movie that some seven years after viewing it I can still recall it well enough to review it. Most bad movies I hope to never see again. This is the kind of bad movie I hope to repress.National Lampoon's Senior Trip: Zero stars (out of four)