[stinkerpot65]

Sleazy movie targeting youth.

[Fai Mao]

Down there with Dirty Dancing, and FlashDance as the worst movies of the decade

[Mathews]

Sure was, and I must’ve seen it at least fifty times!!!

[V_TWIN]

“Sleazy movie targeting youth”

I was 22 when this movie came out....for better or worse I found it a strikingly accurate depiction of late teen early 20s life in this country at the time.

[SamAdams76]

Sleazy movie targeting youth.

I was 19 when it came out. It does hold up as a nice time capsule of what mall culture was like at the time.

High schoolers actually did spend much of their free time at the mall. If they weren't working a part time job there (i.e. Radio Shack, Orange Julius, Tape World, etc.), they were hanging out. At the food court, the arcade, or taking in a movie at the "multi-plex".

This was before internet, cell phones, home video games, most people didn't even have VCRs yet.

My favorite Spicoli scene was when he wrecks his friend's Camaro and tries to calm his friend down: “Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.”

[stevio]

At the time I thought it was the best movie ever. Saw parts of it several years ago. Now realize my huge error.