RE: Revenge Of The Nerds Is One Of Those Eighties Comedies That Is Impossible To Separate From Its Time. It Is Definitely Corny, Definitely a Product Of Its Era, But It Still Holds Up As A Personal Classic Because Of Its Underdog Spirit

This film, or all of the Nerd films say a great deal about the humor that existed at the time. It wasn't PC at all but at the same time it wasn't going out of its way to be offensive. The idea that there is a jock crew that really really hates nerds its really kind of stupid, but somehow this movie just ended up working. Who can forget the musical number that they put together to win the music competition at the Hotel Coral Essex? Family Guy even did a parody of it and I think a lot of the audience now, even though it is 40 years later, still got it.