UP THE CREEK

US, 1984, 95 minutes, Colour.
Tim Mattheson, Jennifer Runyon, John Hillerman, Stephen Furst, James B.Sikking.
Directed by Robert Butler.

Up the Creek is a raucous piece of adolescent entertainment. It is reminiscent of so many of the films geared for adolescent and young adult box office success in the early '80s, Porky's, Porky's 11, The Revenge of the Nerds etc.

In fact, this film is reminiscent of The Revenge of the Nerds. The heroes are nerds - and are shown as the least successful students at the least successful university. (With John Hillerman doing a surprise small turn as the Dean of this university. They are expected to win a canoe race - and their competitors are the usual mad jingoistic team, the all-American WASP team, a girls' team etc. There are a. lot of juvenile shenanigans - with the almost-mandatory insertion of some lewd sex material.

Needless to say, the nerds (led by effective comedian Tim Matheson - letting his hair and wits down from such films as To Be Or Not To Be) win. All in all, a raucous piece of obvious comedy - but not untypical of so many of the films made in the early '80s.