"Pump Up the Volume" is an ignoble and obvious fabrication which tells of a bookish new student (Slater) at an Arizona high school who is tongue-tied on campus by day but articulate by night while operating a pirate radio station from his basement under the pseudonym "Hard Harry". His rabble rousing broadcasts of rebellious antiestablishment rhetoric and crotch talk makes him a cult hero among the student body turning them against the school's fascist principal while his lame parental units remain utterly clueless and he falls for the campus babe and preaches silly "teens are people too" sermons until everyone from the cops to the FCC are trying to track him down. Stupid stuff only a teenager could love. (C)
Review of Pump Up the Volume
