Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation

This time a new generation of nerds face off against the Dean (Ted McGinley) and go to get help from Poindexter (Robert Carradine) who has turned into a cool yuppie dude in this painful sequel which leaves the viewer thinking the obvious question: What were they thinking? Ted McGinley is probably the best thing about the movie as he delivers a performance that at least has some comic energy, Robert Carradine acts through this movie as if he was his brother David Carradine on Kung Fu, which is to say this is quite painful to watch. It doesn't help that this is made for TV so the antics are all watered down and why Anthony Edwards is nowhere to be found. Even most of the nerds from #1 and # 2 are nowhere to be found until the very end. This is the worst sequel of the bunch. After this, the series almost had to get better.

"Revenge of the Nerds III" is nothing more than an excuse to have a reunion of the cast from the original "Revenge of the Nerds." It astounds me how moviemakers keep making inferior sequels. Haven't they learned anything by now? After being subjected to the cruel pranks of the jocks in the first movie and then some more hardship from the mediocre "Revenge of the Nerds II," the nerds have finally received the death penalty: a TV-movie sequel! And what a terrible way to die! It's one thing to make a bad sequel made for the theatre, but making a weak TV-movie sequel is a catastrophe! "Revenge of the Nerds III" wasn't funny at all, and it looks like they just barely had enough money to throw away on this movie. Here's a visual summary of all this.... ############################################################# ############################################################# #######################/------------\########################## ######################!---R.I.P.-----!!######################### ######################!---------------!!####################### ######################!----THE------!!######################### ######################!---NERDS---!!######################### ######################!---------------!!######################## ######################!-1984-1992---!!######################## ######################!---------------!!######################### ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!=*=***++++=!!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Revenge of the Nerds III (1992) 1/2 (out of 4) Made-for-TV sequel is pretty horrid and a real insult the even the second film in the series, which was pretty bad on its own. This time out we have a fresh group of nerds showing up at Atoms College, which has pretty much been nerd friendly for the past decade. Soon Stanley Gable (Ted McGinley) is hired as Dean and he plans on making the college more jocks but the gang from the original movie has other plans. You can file this one under the "what the heck where they thinking" section because if someone wanted to kick start the franchise why on earth make it a pathetic made-for-TV movie? Okay, movies for television can be pretty good but the production values here are so cheap and the story so bad you're really going to feel like you're watching an episode of Saved by the Bell: The College Years. I'm really not sure where to start but I guess we'll begin with the two new leads who are downright annoying, pathetic and just unlikeable. The key behind the first film is that we liked the characters but that's not the case here as all of the newbies are just annoying and you can't help but want to pick on them as well. Another major problem are the characters from the first movie as they too are underwritten and come off looking like cheap, fake copies of the originals. Curtis Armstrong, McGinley, Julie Montgomery and Robert Carradine are just a few of the folks brought back here and more get dragged into the film at the very end for brief cameos. I really like the idea of bringing back the original group but if they were going to go through all the trouble of getting everyone signed it looks like they would have spent some extra time on an actual story. What we have here is just one bad sequence after another and we know where it's all going to go as we get the typical tired story of the nerds having to fight yet again. This here is a real mess of a movie and a major insult to the original film. The only reason this thing avoids a BOMB rating is due to McGinley and Carradine sharing a few nice moments when they first meet up after all these years.

Another quality instalment with some great wee wee fart and burp jokes.

i shouldn't even be wasting my time offering my opinion on this movie. i watched it for the first time this week on cable, and it was pure crap. it's hard to believe someone got paid to write this movie. all they did was discuss scenes from the first installment, which i happen to think is one of the funniest movies of all time. don't bother with this one.

Oh God... Where do I start? First off, even though I don't recommend but look at the first film and tell me there's no need for sequels and second, anything that says "The Next Generation" is bound to suck unless if done right. What are the problems? Everything is wrong with it from the cast, to the script, to the jokes, everything. Especially the fact that it's a family friendly version of the original. That's right, Nerds I was actually Rated R which was one of the reasons why I watched the first film since I dig R Rated films. But I hate it when studios try to make their own franchises family friendly. Remember, this was the sort of thing that killed the RoboCop and the Burton/Schumacher Batman franchises. I mean, "Heck Week"? What the hell? The only good thing about it is the uncredited cameo appearance of Clancy Brown as a gas station owner, I'll watch anything that has Clancy Brown, the dude kicks ass. Overall, I don't recommend watching it but if you're curious about it, go ahead, you'll see how bad it is.

One of the funniest movies ever made!!! Those nerds just kill me! I couldn't stop laughing throughout the whole movie. These "Revenge of the Nerds" movies get better with each sequel. This one ranks up there with "Airplane" and "Something About Mary" among the best comedies ever made. I can't wait to rent "Revenge of the Nerds: Part 4". Hopefully it will be as good as this one. My only complaint about this movie was that Gilbert didn't really appear in this movie. He made a cameo appearance at the end but it was a different actor. Which brings to mind, one question. What was Anthony Edwards thinking when he turned down a part in this movie masterpiece? Thankfully, he didn't make the same mistake twice and later chose to do ER.

It was a warm summer night... I couldn't sleep... so I turned on TNT, and sat down to watch what was going to be one of the most torturous movies I had ever seen... Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation. I can't believe I actually stayed up until 4:00 AM watching this waste of film! The only good part about it was when it (finally!) ended! Avoid this awful piece of trash at ALL costs!!!

Getting my eyes gouged out with a hot poker. Open-heart surgery without anesthetic. Becoming a quadruple-amputee. What do these things have in common? They're all things I'd rather do or have done to me than watch "Revenge of the Nerds 3" again. This movie is without a doubt the most god-awful piece of crap ever released! What were any of the people involved thinking? The acting writing, direction and situations were among the most pathetic I've ever seen on TV or anywhere else. "Revenge of the Nerds 3" is what's wrong with the world today. The writer and director fully deserve to be shot. DON'T SEE IT!!!!!! If one of your friends ever wants to watch it, kill them, then kill yourself for being friends with anyone who would even consider watching this. As for me, I wasn't lucky enough to have people like me to warn them against this travesty. But you still have a chance. Stay away from this one, or may God have mercy on your soul.

I enjoyed the first two movies, and it can be reasonably assumed that, like the "Police Academy" movies, the quality and humor would degrade over time. With "Revenge of the Nerds III", instead of being not quite as good as the other two, the quality/humor dropped like a rock. It's made-for-TV, and it shows.