Exploitation Retrospect | The Journal of Junk Culture and Fringe Media
Hollywood High 2 (1981)
Review by Jesse Nelson

I defy you to find a more pointless film than HOLLYWOOD HIGH 2. You can go to the video store and search the comedy aisles, you can search the horror aisles, you can even search the porno room — I don't think it'll be happening.

This is the most frustrating teen-sex movie of all time. Basically, just a porno movie with no sex and only topless women. Can you imagine the shear boredom? If not for the completely awful acting and dialogue (the film is credited with four screenwriters, yet all the dialogue sounds like they made it up as they went along) the film would be completely unwatchable. There's not a single plot point to the entire film. There are whole five-minute scenes of the characters swimming under water, driving in cars, and walking to school. Aargh!!!! Not to mention the tedious synth soundtrack that grates on your nerves just so.

Now, when I go to watch an 80s teen-sex movie I demand good looking and big-boobed women. The leading women in this film rank among the three ugliest, most untalented, flat-chested and completely fucking annoying human beings in the world. It got to the point where people in the room were groaning whenever one of them took off their tops. I can't believe that the director wasn't yelling, "Shut the fuck up you idiots, the sound of your voice makes me want to drive nails into my ears." I can't believe that he wasn't yelling it, because I couldn't stop yelling it. Not to mention the one annoying woman who thought that her ass was so cute, that she had to keep sticking it in front of the camera. I'm not even talking about her bare ass. She gladly took any excuse to bend over or turn side ways to get a better view of her clothed ass. She must've been fucking the director (God save his soul) for him not to just walk out in front of the camera and kick said ass.

Do I really need to go on?

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