Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

1987 "They're Back!"
5.1| 1h38m| PG-13| en
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The members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity conference. They'll have to beat off the attacks of their rival frat, the Alphas, if they want to maintain their self-respect -- and, of course, if they want to get anywhere with the pretty girls!

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment
TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Maziun If you didn't like the first one , you wont like this one too. If you liked the first , you should get a couple of laughs from this one too, but not too many. It obviously borrows some elements of the story from the original (love story , party , motivation speech) . It also doesn't have so much heart , because we've all seen this story before. Gone is also the satire of high school life.Not all characters are back for this sequel . Some nerds are missing . Anthony Edwards appears here only in few scenes . There is new villain , but I missed Ted McGinley. First movie had Queen song "We are the champions" . This one has two great songs – "Take me back to paradise " by 38 Special and "Funky town" by Pseudo Echo. There are also two new interesting characters – hotel owner and disgusting China man .It's not a quality movie , but certainly better than those made-for-TV crap sequels. Still , no reason to watch it. I give it 2/10.
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.
Aaron1375 This movie is very typical of sequels of earlier years. Back in the day sequels would typically do less business than the original film so for the sequel not much effort is really taken to build upon the films. This film has the nerds going to an event in a nice resort town and of course they are once again picked on, because the popular people just have nothing better to do than harass these few guys instead of drinking and partying. Of course, there is revenge to be had, but not as much revenge this time for the nerds, they take way more bumps in this one and dish out a whole lot less pain this time around. They get stuck in a dump, they get fooled by what they perceive as a sacrifice in a scene that they should be the ones to come up with not the jock types, and they get dumped off on a deserted island. The poor guys do not get to do much other than punch a person this time. The thing they did with Ogre is stupid at the end and once again Booger just does not seem to fit with the nerds as he once again comes across as a guy who is going to be in a regular fraternity and being the cut up. He meets a man in this one that sort of mentors him. Like I said, there is not really a whole lot of revenge of the nerds in this one, they did a whole lot more in the first movie to get back at their tormentors. They are also a nerd down as Anthony Edwards does not return, but they pick up another one to take his place. The next film in this series would go straight to television which is almost worst than direct to video, and thankfully there has yet to be a remake of this franchise that started out with a few laughs, but quickly downgraded with this entry.
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.