If any of my friends drunkenly touch one of my records at a get together without explicit permission, I give them a damn stern talking to. This does not go over well with the kids. Together throughout the film, they both do indeed see their dreams come to fruition, but at the cost of Principal Togar enacting her “Final Solution” which is having all the kids parents of Vince Lombardi High School, bring the kids records to the courtyard and then setting them on fire. Kate is obsessed with getting a date with the jock weatherman Tom Roberts (Vincent Van Patten). Riff is obsessed with seeing the Ramones in concert and getting the songs she’s written for the band to them. Soles) and Kate Rambeau (Dey Young) are best friends from different sides of the high school social spectrum but have clearly endured the years and somehow remained friends. This films adorably naive protagonists can sometimes be eye-roll inducing but are a kind portrayal of a lot of high school kids that I remember. The hall monitors and Principal Togar make a perfect trio of dastardly characters that make the audience cheer for our goofy ass protagonists. Evil, moronic, dweeby, minions from hell. Even though the tickets were only ten bucks (which made my jaw hit the floor the first time I watched the film), it’s the principle of the matter.
When she rips up Riffs Ramones tickets though, she’s no longer mildly irritating, she’s pure evil, and must be destroyed by any means necessary. I wouldn’t hate to own her “Rock-o-meter” though, that contraption is amazing. The clear antagonist Principal Togar portrayed as a near unstoppable evil by the wonderful Mary Woronov, unites the audience immediately, with her devilishly red lips, mistreatment of tiny mice, and hatred for all things Rock and Roll, we all want to see her demise.
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Enough background, I want to talk about all the hilarious and over the top things about this movie that have made it so easily stand the test of time, and why you should go watch it, right now. While the film was well received initially and has an 80% Rotten Tomatoes score, it’s not a movie that’s very well-known to young people, and as far as I can tell, people in general anymore. This film may have been released in 1979 but, it was set in 1980 and I didn’t see it until around 1999, and it’s currently 2019, making this year the 40th anniversary of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School! I’m here to make sure this buried treasures rises to the top once more. The film is centered around a group of high school kids who not only have to deal with normal high school drama like trying to get laid, trying to find somewhere to smoke, and figuring out new and exciting ways to stick it to the man (in their case, the principal), they also have to figure out how they’re going to make it to the Ramones concert! Late in the summer of 1979 Allan Arkush dropped Rock ‘n’ Roll High School.
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