{"id":3933,"date":"2024-09-10T21:13:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2024-10-13T18:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T22:20:45","slug":"revenge-of-the-cheerleaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/09\/10\/revenge-of-the-cheerleaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the Cheerleaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Revenge of the Cheerleaders <\/strong>(1976)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monarch Releasing\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 87 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (full frontal nudity, sex, language, drugs, some violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Richard Lerner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ted Greenwald, Nathaniel Dorsky and Ace Baandage\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Sterling\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Nathaniel Dorsky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 1976 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jerii Woods, Rainbeaux Smith, Helen Lang, Patrice Rohmer, Susie Elene, Eddra Gale, William Bramley, Norman Thomas Marshall, Regina Gleason, Carl Ballantine, Fred Gray, Carrie Dietrich, Sheri Meyers, Lillian McBride, Bert Conroy, Garry Walberg, Mike Steele, David Hasselhoff, David Robinson, Lorna Thayer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: \u00bd *<\/p>\n

\u00a0Revenge of the Cheerleaders<\/strong> is the third part of the Cheerleader Trilogy of 70s even though it\u2019s not really a sequel to either The Cheerleaders or The Swinging Cheerleaders. Plotwise, they have absolutely nothing to do with one another. It\u2019s like Cannon\u2019s Ninja Trilogy of the 80s- Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja and Ninja III: The Domination- except that Sho Kosugi was in all three of them (as different ninja characters). The only player in common in the Cheerleader Trilogy is the late Rainbeaux Smith and she was only in the last two (as different cheerleader characters).<\/p>\n

\u00a0In terms of overall quality, Revenge of the Cheerleaders<\/strong> is closer to The Cheerleaders than The Swinging Cheerleaders. Whereas the latter title has more on its mind than T&A, the former is all about T&A (&B). The same goes for Revenge of the Cheerleaders<\/strong>, a cheersploitation comedy of such low quality, it gives the execrable Hollywood High cause to worry. It\u2019s classless, sleazy, gross, moronic, worthless garbage that doesn\u2019t even have the decency to give the viewers a story worth caring about. It\u2019s shoddily made, badly acted, poorly written and lazily directed. It doesn\u2019t just hit rock-bottom; it falls right through into the abyss. It is all caps B-A-D!<\/p>\n

\u00a0The recycled \u201cplot\u201d of Revenge of the Cheerleaders<\/strong> concerns the cheerleaders at Aloha High trying to save their alma mater from a greedy developer, Walter Hartlander (Bramley, West Side Story), planning to build a shopping mall in its place. To do this, he plans to merge them with their chief rival Lincoln High, a vocational school attended by toughs and delinquents.<\/p>\n

\u00a0If Aloha keeps going the way it is, there\u2019s a good chance the school board will vote in favor of closing the place. It\u2019s like Delta House only a hundred times worse. Nobody ever goes to class; the only thing the student body studies is other student\u2019s bodies. They have sex in the classrooms, in the gym showers, on the campus and even in the halls. It\u2019s not an institution of learning; it\u2019s a freaking orgy! I was expecting to find the Roman emperor Caligula sitting behind the principal\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

\u00a0While there is a principal and faculty, it\u2019s the cheerleaders that run the place. They are Gail (Woods, Switchblade Sisters), Heather (Smith, The Swinging Cheerleaders), Leslie (Penthouse pet Lang), Sesame (Rohmer, Jackson County Jail) and Tishi (Elene). They have two states of dress, their uniforms or undressed. They get away with murder and everything else including holding up a Lincoln classroom with a fire extinguisher (?!) to steal everybody\u2019s drugs. They\u2019re briefly threatened by Aloha\u2019s new principal Mr. Walker (Marshall) who \u201cfires\u201d them as cheerleaders and replaces them with ones that don\u2019t act up or put out. No wonder the crowd at the basketball game boos them so vigorously.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Let\u2019s go over the \u201chigh\u201d points of Revenge of the Cheerleaders<\/strong> even though its aims are clearly the opposite. I already mentioned the classroom holdup scene. The perps take the drugs and drop them all into a huge pot of spaghetti sauce in the school cafeteria. Everybody, of course, gets very high. This includes the three board members there to inspect the school. It leads to a massive food fight, one made extra disgusting by the messy ammo. Note to future filmmakers, if you\u2019re going to put a food fight in your movie, do NOT use spaghetti with sauce. It\u2019s NOT funny, it\u2019s just gross!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Let\u2019s see, what else? There\u2019s a suds-filled orgy scene in the shower room involving cheerleaders, jocks and board members. There are a handful of poorly choreographed, out-of-nowhere dance numbers. Cast members, including a young David Hasselhoff playing a character named \u201cBoner\u201d, break out their worst disco moves. There\u2019s a ball-busting school nurse (Gale, What\u2019s New Pussycat?) in league with the evil developer. It has a class clown (Gray) who specializes in bogus suicide attempts. Funny, he doesn\u2019t look like Bud Cort. There\u2019s a climatic chase scene involving a giant brontosaurus statue, a cave and a golf course filled with quicksand traps.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Revenge of the Cheerleaders<\/strong> has a ton of nudity. It has boobs, butts and bush galore! It has nudity in scenes that don\u2019t even require it. It also has a lot of sex. In one scene, two of the cheerleaders seduce a Boy Scout in the woods after wandering away from a boring field trip. After they\u2019re done with him, they attempt to walk home fully naked only to be stopped by a cop who frisks them. The humor is on the level of a middle school locker room. No, make that the boy\u2019s restroom. For all I know, the script was scrawled on toilet paper by somebody listening to the 12YOs telling each other dirty jokes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Richard Lerner (producer of The Cheerleaders), Revenge of the Cheerleaders<\/strong> is technically incompetent, artistically void and morally bankrupt. It takes idiocy to a new degree. It\u2019s not even worth it to go into the acting. Each and every performance is equally embarrassing. Each and every character is a nitwit and a degenerate. One risks losing IQ points watching Revenge of the Cheerleaders<\/strong>. As awful as it is, I can\u2019t help but admire it just a little bit. It know what it is and what it wants to accomplish and goes at it no holds barred. For me, it belongs in the same category as Screwballs, Joysticks and 1982\u2019s Waitress! It\u2019s so damn bad, you have to love it!\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Monarch Releasing\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 87 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (full frontal nudity, sex, language, drugs, some violence)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Richard Lerner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Ted Greenwald, Nathaniel Dorsky and Ace Baandage\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Sterling\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Nathaniel Dorsky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 1976 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jerii Woods, Rainbeaux Smith, Helen Lang, Patrice Rohmer, Susie Elene, Eddra Gale, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Revenge-of-the-Cheerleaders.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}