Stewardess School (1986)

Good concept, poorly executed.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Assorted misfits train to become flight attendants at a special college and get up to mischief while living on campus in this curious attempt to cross 'Animal House' with 'Airplane!' and 'Police Academy'. Long unavailable on DVD, the film does not have the most positive of reputations, but it does have a small cult following and it easy to see why. The gags that misfire are absolutely groan-inducing (flatulence in an elevator; a zillion pratfalls), but the ones that work are highly memorable - the best of which being the way one very innovative stewardess 'relieves' a stressed-out claustrophobic passenger. Another memorable part involves a prank on the female change rooms gone awry. Juvenile as some of the gags are (a literal salami to hide), the chief pitfall of the film is the lack of well developed characters. The two main male characters do not have much in the way of charm and charisma, while the female characters are barely defined beyond what they were before becoming stewardesses: spoiled rich kid, prostitute, etc. The fact that there are no big name stars in the cast has probably also contributed to the film's descent into obscurity (though Wendie Jo Sperber is great as always). This is, however, a far more decent film than one might expect with some positive and affirming messages about the ability of outcasts and those in the periphery to band together and succeed as a team. It would be an overstatement to describe 'Stewardess School' as an inspirational film, but it is an offbeat testament to the power of teamwork at the very least.

How funny is this movie. Bloody funny. I've seen it a few times, and it just keeps on cracking me up every time, I see it. An added plus, it has Ralph the mouth (Donald Most). Much the way Moving Violations started, showing individually how some of the unlucky group ended up back in traffic school with their blunders, we see the unlucky few here making a change of vocation, where their last one ended with disastrous results. One female wrestler, throws her opponent mistakenly on to her small nerd of a boyfriend sitting front of crowd, next to an obese woman with a raucous laugh, which is one hoot itself. A rich family send their unmannerly daughter to this Stewardess School, where the father gets her biker boyfriend this new spit shine bike. He's taken. He's entrance into the Stewardess School is a classic. Her "I'll miss you" to him, ends with him belching, then pulling a donut, before shooting off back down the hallway and steps on his new prized possession. There are so many cheap laughs in this infectious b comedy. The plot here has anyone joining and put through a rigorous ten week program, where at the end they're demoted to the worst airline, Trimboli airlines, where they're ulterior motives at hand here. On this airline, there so happens to be an undercover officer, surveying this show, and when revealed right at the end, you'll be engaged in hearty chuckles. Most is so funny too, like at the start where he lets one go in an elevator, a one liner prompting this, or like when he asks a couple of girls if they wanna play hide the salami, or when he mistakes a girl's smile off campus, as an invitation, where Mr better looking approaches, and we can't forget his chesshire cat grin when he mistakes the showers as communal ones, where our naked Sandrahl Bergman (Murphy's Law) literally tosses him out. And like all these type movies, our students beat obstacles, and come out good. Judy Landers, almost resembling a particular scene in Doin Time, is great if you're overweight and require a physical. Just send her in first. Also when at the welcoming meeting, she tends to her kinky tricks again- lip licking, behind bending, smooching, bra fondling. See how she causes the director of the school to mispronounce his lines. So many funny moments, so many funny mentions, this is a truly overlooked b comedy, that runs consistently, all the way through. Don't be one of the overlooking party. You'll thank me in the morning.

I saw about 20 minutes of this on TV-the worst movie I have ever seen!Nothing funny, it's just trying to be another Airplane!1/10

If you want to watch a movie with no point but hilarious lines rent this. I actually liked even the plot. It was AWESOME! The characters are hilarious and there are some lines that you will never, ever forget! Rent this today! Even think about buying it!