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Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, Pam Grier ... see more see more... , Patrick Kilpatrick , John P. Ryan , Darren E. Burrows , Joshua John Miller , Sharon Wyatt , Jimmy Medina Taggert , Jason Oliver , Jill Gatsby , Sean Haggerty , Sean Gregory Sullivan , Lee Arenberg , Linda Burden-Williams , Barbara Coffin , Brent David Fraser , James McIntire , Barry M. Press , Lanny Rees , David Wasman , Landon Wine

Mark L. Lester's follow-up film to his Class of 1984 is a rancidly violent peek at a near-future high school world of terror -- The Jetsons meet The Terminator. In Lester's world, total anarchy rules ... read more read more...(at least in Seattle). Classrooms are sinkholes of violence, and around the kill-zone high schools "Free Fire Zones" are set up that look like re-creations of Dachau. Rival youth gangs roam these areas with enough artillery for a second Vietnam War. The gangs' insane violence is exacerbated by a drug called Edge. When the Department of Educational Defense needs to supply new teachers, they look to a secret government agency headed by Dr. Bob Forrest (Stacy Keach) who sends new teaching recruits (Pam Grier, John P. Ryan, Joshua Miller) to the beleaguered high school. These novice teachers are not your ordinary teaching-college graduates, however. They are "tactical education units" -- cyborgs reprogrammed to teach readin' and writin' and 'rithmetic. If the students don't learn their daily assignments, they learn an even bigger lesson -- learn or die. The strict disciplinarian robots compel the student gangs to unite and fight the new educational menace. Under the leadership of Cody Culp (Bradley Gregg), who has just gotten out of reform school and has seen that there is more to life than killin' and cuttin' and Edge, the punks take up arms against the cyborgs who are invading their high-school turf. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: Mark L. Lester

Release Date: May 1, 1990

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DVD Release Date: September 16, 2008

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  • phubbs1
    November 11, 2011
    phubbs1
    Sequel to the first but with a rather ambitious new plot revolving around 'terminator' style robot teachers that are brought in to control the students.

    Set in the distant future of 99 (at the time ;) ) this film looks allot like 'Mad Max' mixed with elements from 'Robocop'. You... read more can see where Lester got his inspirations from but in all honesty the film is so gloriously over the top and cheesy its just brilliant. Probably even more dated than the first film due to the quite horrendous costumes on display lol! they really are quite fantastically lame and impractical you just gotta smile. Add to this lots of armoured cars, a high school that looks like a large seedy red light district with masked stormtroopers patrolling around and another king of trashy B-movies, Malcolm McDowell as the head.

    The cast is again pretty good with some cult names in there such as Pam Grier, Joshua John Miller of 'Near Dark' fame, Stacy Keach with some nice futuristic contacts and white hair and main player Bradley Gregg who curiously looks like a hybrid of Stephen Dorff and Corey Feldman fused together....the perfect guy for a trashy 80's flick then :)

    Yes this isn't as good as the first as this film dumps the serious thriller aspect and goes way over board into the realms of silly sci-fi with extreme gun play between warring school gang factions and the robotic death machines that are the teachers but its still damn good fun. Lots of cheesy dialog and hammy performances with an ending that definitely borrows from a certain James Cameron sci-fi adventure. Anarchy is overblown wearing ridiculous earrings, long head scarfs and large shiny belts :) almost a homage to the early 80's.
  • deano
    June 19, 2007
    deano
    It's a hell of the futuristic high school in this violent exploitation film. John P. Ryan and Pam Grier are loads of fun as the androids, latter mocking her image when not only her breasts but inner works are revealed for the final reel through hokey make-up effects.
  • 76Majikat
    June 15, 2007
    76Majikat
    1999 seemed such a long way off whn this film came out, predicted slightly wrong maybe, well the cyborgs anyway
  • threefolddado
    July 1, 2008
    threefolddado
    Corn-ball fun.
  • cacutshaw
    March 21, 2008
    cacutshaw
    Boring and uninspired. Sad considering I loved the original (Class of 1984) and both Malcolm McDowell, Pam Grier and Stacy Keach are in it, which seemed like a guaranteed good time. Plus, no Alice Cooper song! Though I should give this another watch, considering I enjoy trash ... read morea lot more than when I first saw this.
  • leekyle1968
    March 19, 2008
    leekyle1968
    ive always truly loved this movie since its intial release on vhs. The acting is horrible but the movie and storyline are way cool. If you can find this, by all means check it out!
  • phaedrus99
    January 19, 2011
    phaedrus99
    one of the best sci fi movies of the nineties that you haven't seen or heard of. VERY similar to terminator, but better
  • trytoimagineme
    February 12, 2010
    trytoimagineme
    I grew up in the neighborhood where this movie was shot. The Wallingford district in Seattle WA.

    In 1989 my friends and I would go up to Lincoln Highschool across the street from the boys and girls club which would later be moved to Lincoln and watch this movie being filmed. So... read moreme of the props stayed in the parking lot for which seemed like years.

    It was a great time, being 10-11 years and seeing a sci-fi movie filmed right by your house. We couldn't wait for this movie to come out, to us it was like the biggest movie ever (eventhough we knew it wasnt). It was down right awful then and it still is, but its worth watching purely for that purpose. Its funny how far off the future has been predicted in movies from the past. I graduated a few years before 1999 and let me tell you it was nothing like this in this area in Seattle...lol
  • riverotter
    February 21, 2009
    riverotter
    As a followup to the punks-on-a-warpath trash classic "Class of 1984", this goofy sci-fi/horror actioner is so sublimely ridiculous that it counts as an act of inspired chutzpah. Where "1984" was essentially a youth paranoia potboiler that saw evil kids terrorizing a well-meaning... read more teacher, "1999" spins the premise in the other direction... now the violent, drug-addled punks are the heroes, while the teachers aren't just villains, they're robot assassins armed with flamethrowers and rocket launchers. Director Lester ("Commando") could have taken that premise and simply coasted his way to a bland "Terminator" ripoff, but thankfully he and scripter C. Courtney Joyner mix a lot of humor in with the copious explosions and gun battles... certainly no other movie comes to mind that features a tweed-wearing, silver-haired professor turning a pair of unruly teens over his knee and giving them a brutal cyborg-powered spanking. Trash movie vet Malcolm McDowell largely phones in his role as the beleaguered principal of a high school/prison located in the middle of a post-apocalyptic war zone, but the rest of the cast seems to be having a ball with the cheesy material. Bradley Gregg (who also did extra duty behind the scenes as co-scripter, production designer and hair stylist) seethes nicely as a downtrodden punk who just wants to go to class, while Joshua Miller (the vampire kid from "Near Dark") makes a rare but welcome appearance as an ill-fated young gangbanger.
  • merling
    September 30, 2007
    merling
    OMG this was so shitty I don't want to talk about it. pam grier and malcolm mcdowell must have been desperate. a variation on westworld, but so bad.

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Richard Harrington
January 1, 2000
Richard Harrington, Washington Post

Class of 1999 gets a D for dumb, dull and derivative. Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
September 7, 2011
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

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March 26, 2009
Variety

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Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

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May 1, 1990
Entertainment Weekly

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Emanuel Levy
June 26, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Nicolas Lacroix
May 31, 2004
Nicolas Lacroix, EnPrimeur.ca

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