If you're not a fan of the post disco music scene that The Ramones represented you're probably not going to like Rock "N" Roll High School. And if you do nothing that I or any other reviewer says will influence you in the slightest degree.
There's no plot in this anarchistic film by Roger Corman, but that's part of the fun. It involves new school principal Miss Togar from the Ilsa Koch's Buchenwald school of education trying to restore some discipline to Vince Lombardi High School.
Her main opponent is P.J. Soles who has dedicated her life to spreading the gospel of The Ramones to her peers. But in Mary Woronov as principal Togar, she's got a ruthless adversary.
There's a subplot going involving young Vincent Van Patten looking for some sex from somewhere. Here it gets a bit ridiculous because I can't believe Vincent Van Patten couldn't get any female or gay male if that was what he might want. He plays the same kind of goofy teenager that David Cassidy did on The Partridge Family.
Of course all this is an excuse to play a whole lot of Ramone songs including the title song of this film. Stylistically Rock 'N' Roll High School borrows from A Hard Day's Night and from Grease and the mix is good.
It ain't exactly my kind of music and it's not O'Neill or Shakespeare, but the film is amusing and harmless.
And the ending is the dream of a lot of teenagers.
There's no plot in this anarchistic film by Roger Corman, but that's part of the fun. It involves new school principal Miss Togar from the Ilsa Koch's Buchenwald school of education trying to restore some discipline to Vince Lombardi High School.
Her main opponent is P.J. Soles who has dedicated her life to spreading the gospel of The Ramones to her peers. But in Mary Woronov as principal Togar, she's got a ruthless adversary.
There's a subplot going involving young Vincent Van Patten looking for some sex from somewhere. Here it gets a bit ridiculous because I can't believe Vincent Van Patten couldn't get any female or gay male if that was what he might want. He plays the same kind of goofy teenager that David Cassidy did on The Partridge Family.
Of course all this is an excuse to play a whole lot of Ramone songs including the title song of this film. Stylistically Rock 'N' Roll High School borrows from A Hard Day's Night and from Grease and the mix is good.
It ain't exactly my kind of music and it's not O'Neill or Shakespeare, but the film is amusing and harmless.
And the ending is the dream of a lot of teenagers.