This is a pretty lively follow-up to Class of 1984. Set in an inaccurately predicted 1999, schools in the USA are now completely over-run with delinquents which has led to the introduction of violent android teachers to control the classes. This one has a pretty good cast - Pam Grier (yay!) as a no-nonsense android chemistry teacher, Tom Atkins sporting a grey mullet and contact lenses and Malcolm McDowell as the high school principal. And for the first half, I was thinking it might be as good as the original, with good pacing and entertaining scenes a-plenty (my favourite being the uproarious part where two young hoodlums who were fighting in class are punished by android teacher by being taken over his knee and spanked - too funny!). In the second half the emphasis goes more squarely on relentless action and it did get a bit less interesting for me, however, on the whole this is a worthy follow-up which extends the original story in a different-yet-similar way.
Review of Class of 1999
