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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 3026
Released: May 9, 2000 |
| Our Price: $7.65 |
| Used Price: $5.00 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Mutrux's crude cult classic answer to AMERICAN GRAFITTI and ANIMAL HOUSE follows the comic exploits of the Hollywood Knights, a rowdy, prank-happy car club, and their screwball leader Newbomb Turk (Wuhl). When a group of Beverly Hills preppies decide to run the dclass pranksters out of town by closing down their hang-out--Tubby's Drive-in--the 'Knights (featuring a young Danza and Pfeiffer) unleash a chaotic string of practical jokes in retaliation, culminating in a hell-raising Halloween free-for-all. Long enjoying cable TV-fed cult status, the film's video release was held up for years due to music rights.
Description of The Hollywood Knights:
You've got to give credit to the Hollywood Knights. They may be crass, juvenile, sex-mad pranksters, but they have an open-door policy: nerds and jocks alike are welcome, as long as they show proper disrespect for authority. The Hollywood Knights, a minor 1980 cult comedy poised somewhere between the innocent nostalgia of American Graffiti and the raunchy humor of Animal House, chronicles the antics of a practical-joking high school gang on Halloween night, 1965. In tribute to the last night of their favorite hangout, a Beverly Hills drive-in marked for destruction by the snooty Chamber of Commerce, the gang's court jester Newbomb Turk (Robert Wuhl in his film debut) leads the Knights in an all-out assault on the forces of law and order, conformity, and good taste. Nestled in the parade of toilet humor, fart jokes, mooning rebels, and topless co-eds, however, are the ruminations of the end of an era: the times they are a changin'. The doo-wop and surf soundtrack gives way to Motown, the Mamas and the Papas, and the Byrds as high school sweethearts Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer weather the transition from puppy love to adult romance and Vietnam looms on the horizon. It's a schizophrenic film, bopping from juvenile anarchy to thoughtful drama and back again with a sloppy but energetic drive and a rowdy rebelliousness that will never be accused of sensitivity, decency, or dignity. Fran Drescher, Gary Graham, and a hilarious Stuart Pankin also star. --Sean Axmaker
The Hollywood Knights Reviews:
HOLLYWWOD KNIGHTS 
2009-10-12 - This a very funny movie about a bunch of kids having fun. It has adult humor. I really enjoyed it
Hollywood Knights 
2009-08-31 - This was a funny movie! I bought it for my husband who really wanted it. It is one of his favorites
Fast
2009-08-06 - Super fast delivery time of a fairly rare movie. Will definately use this seller again
Hollywood Knights
2009-05-06 - It is good to go back a little and remember how it was. This movie does just that. The pranks are a little out there agaisnt the police but it is all in fun. Funny and enjoyable.
In my collection forever
2009-03-22 - This is a great movie to add to a collection. It's full of great songs and hot cars. Funny gags and full blown belly laugh moments. If you grew up in this time period, it will bring back memories. If you didn't grow up in this time period, you can get an idea of what it was like. There will always be a place on my shelf for this movie.
