Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) User Reviews

* * Out Of Five

[bronsonskull72 · 4/10 · 29 March 2006]

This time the nerds led by Robert Carradine and Anthonny Edwards go to Florida where there they meet a new breed of jocks who they face off against and basically destroy in the end, the problem with this entry is that the nerds this time are too cool to really be considered nerds and they even get a girlfriend sympathetic to their cause, this undermines all the humor, not to mention that away from the college dorm setting, there really isn't much the nerds can do that they didn't in the original. As a sequel this is all disappointing stuff, but aside from James Hong who gives an inspired performance as well as maybe a few vaguely amusing moments, Revenge Of The Nerds II is a big disappointment.

"The Nerds Are Back & They're Bad!"

[gwnightscream · 6/10 · 15 February 2015]

Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong, Timothy Busfield, Larry B. Scott, Courteney Thorne-Smith, Donald Gibb, Bradley Whitford and Anthony Edwards star in this 1987 comedy sequel. This entry has nerds, Lewis (Carradine), Booger (Armstrong), Poindexter (Busfield) and Lamar (Scott) traveling to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a convention to represent Adams College fraternity, Lambda Lambda Lambda. Whitford (Billy Madison) plays Roger, the Chapter President of the Alpha Beta fraternity who tries to get them expelled by framing them, but underestimates them when they decide to fight back. Smith (Summer School) plays Sunny, a hotel clerk who finds romance with Lewis, Gibb (Bloodsport) returns as Alpha Beta member, Ogre who eventually joins the Nerds and Edwards (Top Gun) also returns briefly as Lewis' pal, Gilbert. I grew up watching this sequel and always enjoyed it almost as much as the original. The cast is great and I recommend this.

Not As Good As The Original But Provides Some Laughs

[funky_cherry86 · 5/10 · 26 March 2012]

Revenge Of The Nerds II Nerds In Paradise may not a comedy classic like it's predecessor Revenge Of The Nerds but it's still an enjoyable movie to watch.This time our nerd heroes must once again fight back against their most hated enemy. Robert Carradine's character Lewis grows up quite a bit and stands up for his fraternity brothers.

Curtis Armstrong is as always his funny self when playing nose picker Booger his character is more hilarious, he says some great lines in the film. A year has passed since a group of intelligent and awkward young men banded together to form a fraternity to fight back against the Alpha Betas. They succeeded in their battle of brains vs. brawn guaranteeing nerd freedom, Now Lewis (Carradine) and his friends Wormser (Cassese), Pointdexter (Busfield), Lamar (Scott) & Booger (Armstrong) are about to represent Adams College at a united fraternity conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Once there they are prosecuted and picked on again by another chapter of the Alpha Betas run by Roger Latimore (Whitford). Sunny Carstairs (Smith) a hotel employee befriends the nerdy gang and falls in love with Lewis.

Towards the end after being marooned on an island the boys find military equipment and using an army tank they head back to the conference to confront Roger and his group with the help of Ogre (Gibb) who becomes a member of the Lambda Lambdas after being kicked out of the Alphas.

This film may not be a laugh fest but certainly provides very little humour and memorable quotes.

not nearly as good as the first one,but still not bad

[jaws! · 6 July 1999]

I love the first revenge of the nerds. The second one is not nearly as good as the first one, but still pretty good. The nerds are still funny in this movie. Booger is once again the funniest of them all. The second one is also entertaining at times. They could've make this movie better if they would've kept the nerds at Adam's college, but the second one is still watchable, and funny. I give revenge of the nerds II: nerds in paradise **1/2 out of ****

Revenge of the 80's : The obligatory financial sequel.

[Captain_Couth · 3/10 · 8 July 2004]

Revenge of the Nerds II (1987) was a useless sequel. There was no reason (except for monetary motives) for this movie to have ever been made. First of all they have obviously ran out of ideas, secondly only a third of the cast was available and last but not least they made it into a P.G. movie. Why on earth would you try and market a raunchy comedy as a P.G. movie. Well, this didn't make any money. Not only did the product stink but it did like wise at the box office.

A bad movie that shouldn't have been made in the first place. Not only the film-makers didn't learn the first time around, two more made-for-t.v. sequels were produced during the 90's (I guess FOX didn't learn from that abortion Omen IV). Not worth watching (unless you are a HUGE Revenge of the Nerds fan). Take my word, ignore this one.

Bad movie.

Medicore sequel but still provides the laughs

[DunnDeeDaGreat · 4/10 · 28 February 2003]

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise isn't as good as the first film mainly because the film wasn't rated R. Robert Caradine is back in proper form as Lewis his character really grows this time. Curtis Armstrong as Booger steals the sequel he's funnier here in some scenes then in the first. If the film had been rated R and had nudity then it could have been good as the first but the PG-13 rating is what maily hurts the film.

Incoherent

[stuff-616-192925 · 4/10 · 16 July 2013]

This was a disappointment compared to the original. Why is it that sequels often try to do similar things, similar plots, similar jokes? Not necessary! A sequel to me must be original to some degree, too. The beginning was promising, the middle part had enormous lengths and very bad scripting and the end was bland. I loved the characters though. Believable like the original. However, Poindexter seemed much too talkative and sometimes even made sense, almost as if Milton Waddams went to a speech-therapist. I did not like the setting at all and the hotel scenes were very far fetched.

All in all rather disappointing. Too bad.

Yeah, it's silly, but it's still a fun comedy

[Smells_Like_Cheese · 6/10 · 2 September 2007]

The other day I bought the "Atomic Wedgie" edition of the Revenge of the Nerds movies, it was pretty cheap so I figured what the heck to have the sequels too, you know? So I watched Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise this morning and I remember it's harsh rating on IMDb, so I was kinda scared about this not being a good movie. But actually I found myself enjoying it, sure compared to the first Revenge of the Nerds film, naturally you'll be disappointed, but if you separate it, I think you might find yourself laughing too. Our favorite nerds are back and they are now in tropical paradise facing the jocks once again.

Lewis and the boys are going to Florida to represent their charter with the conference of all charters. They start off the trip very well, but once they get to the hotel, they are kicked out by the Alpha jocks and mocked constantly. But they hang tough, but the Alpha's are not going down, so they frame the boys and try to make sure that they cannot be at the big conference so that they can be expelled from all the other charters. But the nerds have had enough and are going to make sure that the Alpha's go down once and for all.

Now guaranteed, this wasn't the first Revenge of the Nerds, but Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise was still a lot of fun to watch. The boys are still a lot of fun to watch, I just loved how Ogre kept saying "nerds!" every time they would walk into a room, he was such a fun addition for the story. I really liked this sequel and I think people just need to cut it a break. Like I said, if you compare it to the first film, you'll be disappointed, but if you just have an open mind, I think you're going to get a few laughs.

6/10

A boring, unwarranted catastrophe

[callanvass · 3/10 · 17 February 2014]

(Credit IMDb) Get out your white socks! This time our suave college heroes hit the road for fun and fraternity in Florida. Another opportunity for brains to triumph over brawn. How can the girls possibly resist their geeky charms?

What a poor excuse for a sequel! I liked the first one, but it wasn't exactly clamoring for a sequel. This one screams laziness and forgets what made the first one successful. Anthony Edwards is reduced to a glorified cameo in this one, Robert Carradine is forced to carry much of the crappy material that he can't do much with. Betty Childs (Julia Montgomery) The girl Lewis gets together with at the end of the first movie doesn't appear in this one. As a matter of fact, Courtney Thorne- Smith becomes his love interest in this one. I like her as an actress, but she lacks the spunk to be that interesting. Ostensibly, Julia Montgomery turned down to reprise her role because she was supposed to have dumped Lewis and she felt it would have negated all the changes her character made in this movie. It was a wise choice. Followed by two more sequels that went STV. I would skip this one if I were you, it provides you with no laughs and it's dull

3.6/10

Underrated Sequel of Nerd's franchise, one my favorites ever!!!

[elo-equipamentos · 6/10 · 17 January 2023]

The Nerds is among of my favorites franchise ever, those pencil necked geeks were exccedingly funny in many ways, often wearing trick glasses, old-fashioned clothes, multi-color pencils at t-shirt pocket, clumsy and absent of malice, therefore utterly brainy, what marvelous character to exploit in a movie.

After the original this sequel the Tri-lambs fraternity is invited together Alpha-Beta to attend the US' Union fraternities at first class Hotel in Florida, soon Alpha-Beta manages a way to kick out Tri-lambs there, just remaining a cheaper and dirtiest HOTel cOrRAL esSEX in the outskirts of Fort Lauderdale, which they make a special party when they burning some neon lights of the front of the hotel that means another term with sexual context, like I let clear above, drawing attention of all fraternities.

Afterwards that they finally accepts on the Union, although there's a catch framed by Alpha-Betha leader, an auto-thief sent all them to the jail, leaving there because the Hotel's girl attendant payed the bail, aftermaths they were abandoned by the Alpha-Beta fraternity in faraway island, they will return to apply a hard chastisement in the Alpha's leader.

All members of Tri-Lambs are usually quirky, the leader Lewis (Robert Carradine) is smart and fumbling, Booger (Curtis Armstrong) is filthy mouth with sexual background, already Lamar (Larry B. Scott) seems somewhat akin coming from Village People's group, Poindexter (Timothy Busfield) a sort of h.o.n.k stiff hair boy, unfortunately it would seem that Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) didn't carry on of the sequel and just appearing in smallest sequence, I'm glad to revisit it once more, really enjoyable!!

Thanks for reading.

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First watch: 1993 / Source: TV-DVD / How many: 3 / Rating: 6.5.

Mediocre US Comedy, Pastiche of 1st Film, But I LOVE THE HIP-HOP NUMBER !

[alleywayambush · 5/10 · 20 June 2022]

So, the 1st Revenge Of The Nerds (1st of 4 !) was obviously light-hearted American comedy at its most classic and best (and least feeble; sorry, I'm British !).

This however is your typical mediocre sequel, in a similar vein to the sequels to Croc Dundee or Bill+Ted. They cash in on the humour of the 1st film, making it second-hand and 'old hat', likewise making a predictable pastiche of the original characters and their entics; sure, who ever could have predicted stoner-nerd Booger going on hoiday with a suitcase full of condoms !

The 'nerd' status of the title characters is even more ironic than the 1st film. The jocks are an even bigger bunch of All-American inadequates in denial, hence the one called 'Tiny' (get it?) and the jocks all sharing a very small hot tub (!), and main 'nerd' Lewis gets a genuinely beautiful - and blonde bombshell - girlfriend. (Courtney Thorne-Smith; looked stunning in that white bikini !)

The one part of the film that has genuine quality and class is THE HIP-HOP NUMBER ! A proper Beastie Boys pastiche by all means, but those 'nerds' sure make a catchy, punchy and subversive rap, promoting the termination of 'Act no.15' that makes jock-status athleticism mandatory in the University fraternity guild.

So I'll give this a fair 5/10 for being mediocre and pastiche, but fun enough and with a brilliant hip-hop number !

My brief review of the film

[sol- · 8/10 · 28 May 2005]

A terribly silly but awfully amusing little sequel, it may be a touch predictable, and it is missing Thomas Newman's excellent theme song, but having the same likable characters on hand helps it to be equally as fun as the first film. Some of the jokes are really hilarious, and arguably I would say that it is funnier than the first film. I would not definitely call it better, but it is certainly at least on the same level, with an interesting charm radiating from the nerdy characters. And there is another song to take the place of Tom Newman's ditty: an amusing little number called "No on Fifteen". The film seems to get a lot of negative feedback, but I cannot agree - it may not be a great film, like the first, but it is by all means amusing, like the first.

I've since learned that Robert Carradine's daughter went to my college.

[lee_eisenberg · 6/10 · 27 November 2006]

For the most part, I don't think that the original needed a sequel, but "Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise" isn't terrible. It just seems like they repeated a lot of the stuff from the first movie. Although I will admit that I really liked what they did with the hotel sign. And Booger sure doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut! But I hope that there won't be any more sequels after this. It's a good thing that "Animal House" didn't have any sequels.

And yes, Robert Carradine's daughter Ever attended Lewis and Clark College (this was many years before I went there, so I never met her). I doubt that she had experiences similar to the ones portrayed in this movie.

Nerds gone Awful!

[marimbadaddy · 3/10 · 16 March 2009]

Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise is a horrible sequel. The only redeeming qualities is the sound track featuring Pseudo Echo's cover of "Funky Town", and .38 Special's "Take Me Back To Paradise". And though it was fun and somewhat nostalgic to see our favorite nerds again, the script was just awful, and the plot exceedingly thin.

This was clearly made for the sake of making the studio money. I had thought that it was a rushed sequel, as the script was so bad. However, this film was put out three years after the original, allowing for plenty of time for a quality plot and script to be developed. Like its contemporaries such as the Police Academy series, this sequel just lets the audience down and was unfortunately continued after this horrible train wreck.

Another Case of an Unnecessary Sequel

[tfrizzell · 20 August 2001]

"Revenge of the Nerds" was far from a great film, but its enormous box office success led to this dud of a sequel. The major players are back and attend a conference in Fort Lauderdale only to be bullied again by the dreaded Alpha Betas. Robert Carradine is back, but Anthony Edwards only makes a token appearance and is sorely missed here. The same is true with James Cromwell who has about the same length of screen-time as before, but does not make his presence known as well as before. In all the film is nearly a total waste. There are some good looking women in bit parts and that may be the greatest attraction. A young Courtney Thorne-Smith sizzles as Carradine's love interest. 2 stars out of 5.

Lost the comedy

[SnoopyStyle · 3/10 · 2 September 2014]

The Tri-Lambs of Adams College goes to the United Fraternity Conference in Fort Lauderdale. Lewis Skolnick (Robert Carradine), Dudley Booger Dawson (Curtis Armstrong), Lamar Latrelle (Larry B. Scott), Arnold Poindexter (Timothy Busfield), and Harold Wormser (Andrew Cassese) find that they are picked on once again. Gilbert Lowell (Anthony Edwards) has a broken leg and has to stay home. Sunny Carstairs (Courtney Thorne-Smith) is the nice hotel clerk. Ogre (Donald Gibb) follows the guys down to Florida. The acting manager Buzz Mussinger (Ed Lauter) cancels the nerds' reservation and they are left with a rundown hotel. Roger (Bradley Whitford) is the new douche leader.

There are some missing nerds. Anthony Edwards was probably busy and could only be in a cameo. It would also have been great to have the girls back. Some lost is to be expected but the movie starts off at a lower level. Bradley Whitford isn't jock enough to be their nemesis. Again I wish Ted McGinley would come back to take revenge. As for the nerds, it's strange to have them be confident. It's not as funny. The charm of the original is that they discovered their individual powers. This one has none of the charm and lost the comedy to boot.

Very Silly

[Meredith-7 · 5/10 · 2 January 2000]

We all know that this was not as good as the first nerds, how can it be when the first one was so original?. The sequel is more of the same, but not as funny, although many will find humor in "the master", particularly if you are an advocate of toilet humor. Interesting to see Courtney Thorne Smith in an early role, pre Melrose and Ally McBeal. And we all get to see the original nerds again, even Anthony Edwards makes a few guest appearances. Probably a good film to watch when you are not functioning that well, because then you will not really have the opportunity to realise just how bad this film is in comparison to the many great films out there. Yet still there are many that are worse, and let us not forget this film was made in 1987, when comedies in the same vein as Nerds were immensely popular. Its not a good film, but its still watchable, I guess some of us find pleasure in juvenile campus comedies- even if we don't admit it to that many people.

Rent "Real Genius" or "Just One of the Guys" instead. In fact, you should rent "Ishtar" or "Howard the Duck" instead of this "chocolate no-no".

[NoirDamedotcom · 1/10 · 4 September 2005]

While the original movie is silly and stupid, its heart and sentiment make it a lot of fun to watch. This sequel challenges the intellect (by involuntarily lowering the IQ scores of anyone who actually pays attention) and the stomach (the sheer number of scenes with Booger are enough to trigger mass cases of irritable bowel syndrome). It lacks a cohesive plot, the dialogue is terrible, and these poor actors should have filed suit with SAG for unreasonable labor conditions. Seeing it rerun repeatedly on Encore makes me want to call the cable company and demand my money back.

It's also disturbing in hindsight to see such talented TV actors like Courtney Thorne-Smith and Bradley Whitford in such unmitigated crap. Seeing Whitford show up in this turdfest, suggests that "Josh Lyman" was a mean bastard before the angelic President Bartlet entered his heart. At least, I'll never watch "The West Wing" the same way again.

Pulls out some moments.

[Jamal Anderson · 7/10 · 13 April 2000]

"Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise" oddly enough, pulls out some memorable moments. Such as when they find a bunch of old army tanks, etc. Booger (Curtis Armstrong) yellin' out "WE GOT BUSH!" is f'n hilarious. Although, the storyline is pretty much the same. The nerds arrive in a hotel, the manager doesn't want them there because they are "nerds", so they gotta stay in some cheap "hotel" with chickens runnin' 'round wild. Probably the worst thing about this movie is that, the "nerd" to first stand-up for "nerd persecution" in Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) has a small role. I can't really say I can recommend jus' goin' out to BLOCKBUSTER or Hollywood Video and renting this, but it's obviously a perfect time waster. Umm, I guess it pulls off a solid six.

A step down from the original

[grahamsj3 · 5/10 · 7 February 2005]

As with many sequels, this one is, alas, a definite step down from the original Nerds film. The nerds are back, for the most part, the originals, but the story is written so differently from the first. This film attempts to be a bit more humorous than the first, but it falls flat. The humor is this one is the lowbrow type of humor so common today. It is either sophomoric sexual innuendo, slapstick or scatological in nature and it's just not funny. I loved the first flick and, expecting this not to be quite as good, was nonetheless quite disappointed in it. The story line in this is also somewhat similar to the first film and didn't seem very original to me. The acting is just as good as it was in the original film but the writing and storyline are just not up to par with the original, so not even decent acting can save it. A 5 only.

Not as good as the first!

[skaterboy6305-1 · 6/10 · 26 October 2020]

Still a fun sequel but I thought the first one had better jokes. The made for TV sequels were okay and the 3rd one was my favorite the 4th one sucked.

What was the point of a sequel?

[Cryptfan2 · 2/10 · 2 August 2008]

Now, even though I didn't like Revenge of the Nerds but what was the point of making a sequel? Aside from making money, of course.

I mean as the song The Touch goes "After all is said and done" pretty much describes about making a sequel. I mean, the first film told its story and didn't leave any possibilities of a sequel, it had something to say and it was done, what more is there to tell? Now, as usual, the nerds, the jocks and the rest of the characters are annoying as hell even after a few years after the first film. The new actors who played the new characters didn't exactly help, I mean they're like Mary Sues and Garu Stus. What the hell, man? The script sucks, nothing more.

But the music is actually good except for the song the "Nerds" sang, don't know the name but I won't bother to ask what it is. but the song "Paradise" is actually pretty good, it was pumping and energetic. The sequel is actually another case where the soundtrack is better than the movie itself.

Overall, Nerds II gets 2/10. Off to the third film I go...

Funny

[bevo-13678 · 10/10 · 20 July 2021]

I like the bit where he did that really long wee wee. They've been copying that gold ever since.

Formulaic, mostly unfunny sequel, with less plot and no nudity

[Groverdox · 4/10 · 18 November 2020]

This sequel to "Revenge of the Nerds" basically repeats the formula of the first movie, but with a beachside resort instead of a university. Again, the "nerds" show up to their plush digs and find that the evil rival fraternity, the Alphas, have seen to it that they can't claim what's theirs, and thus have to live in a run-down hotel. They are at some sort of "convention" for fraternities and their rivals want to get them banned, or some such thing.

The movie has less story than the first. It just feels like a series of loosely connected scenes, or perhaps just gags. It raised the occasional chuckle from me. I think I laughed maybe three times.

Remember the infamous "We got bush!" scene from the first movie? The filmmakers this time round certainly did: the snot-picking pervert character Booger repeats the same line when he comes across a bushel of marijuana in the wild. However, despite including that call back, this movie contains virtually no nudity, unless you count a couple of moments where nipples are visible through clothes.

An absolute masterpiece and great follow up to the first.

[UKtennisfan · 6 January 2001]

Very rarely does a sequel to a cult hit live up to the expectations of die-hard fans, it happened of course with Ghostbusters and BTTF, but it is certainly a rare treat. It is with this in mind that I unequivocally declare Nerds in Paradise a cinematic masterpiece.

This movie has EVERYTHING!! from a choice soundtrack, great location shots to Booger at his comedic best and a feel good ending with the inevitable nerd triumph. The persecution of the nerds cuts a little deeper than it does in the other three films, but the nerds certainly don't take it lying down, there frustration at being forced into sub-standard accommodation and having the tri lambda fraternity continually ignored despite lewis's assurances that they would be accepted this time culminates in an epic poolside battle, with a few surprises thrown into he mix.

A highlight of the film would have to be Boogers inspiring impromptu speech, when he asks "who decides the standards" despite being in a room packed with jocks. In addition to this the scenes on the beach and poolside as the nerds try their hand with the ladies have predictably hilarious results.

Robert Carradine is amazing as Lewis and he really gives his all into his performance highlighting his commitment to the Nerd films.