Back to School: Critic Reviews

The film is a good-natured potpourri of gags, funny bits, populist sentiment and anti-intellectualism.

This is exactly the sort of plot Marx or Fields could have appeared in. Dangerfield brings it something they might also have brought along: a certain pathos.

It's a good character for Dangerfield, one that veers him away from the 'I don't get no respect' pathos that comes too easily to him, and enough attention is paid to the minimal plot to integrate Dangerfield's classically constructed one-liners.

One of the brightest (and least pretentious) comedies of the past quarter-century, the 1986 box office hit Back to School is the sort of film that's easy to watch repeatedly over the years.

Observe, and offer cod psychological analysis to your friends.

This Rodney Dangerfield vehicle is a lot better than it should be.

The result is unsophisticated, unilluminating, unambitious, and hilarious.

Dangerfield dominates most the film, happily upending everything around him.

[An] acceptable time-passer.

Dangerfield's best cinematic offering, but it's the late Sam Kinison's cameo that steals the show.

Dangerfield at his feature film best--and no, really, I do mean that as a good thing.

Ba-da-bing, punch line, ba-da-boom.

Rodney Dangerfield's funniest film

Hilarious Dangerfield vehicle.

Easily Dangerfield's best movie--for what that's worth

Formula college comedy salvaged single-handedly by Dangerfield's trademark schtick.