Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Revenge of the Nerds III (1992) 1/2 (out of 4) Made-for-TV sequel is pretty horrid and a real insult the even the second film in the series, which was pretty bad on its own. This time out we have a fresh group of nerds showing up at Atoms College, which has pretty much been nerd friendly for the past decade. Soon Stanley Gable (Ted McGinley) is hired as Dean and he plans on making the college more jocks but the gang from the original movie has other plans. You can file this one under the "what the heck where they thinking" section because if someone wanted to kick start the franchise why on earth make it a pathetic made-for-TV movie? Okay, movies for television can be pretty good but the production values here are so cheap and the story so bad you're really going to feel like you're watching an episode of Saved by the Bell: The College Years. I'm really not sure where to start but I guess we'll begin with the two new leads who are downright annoying, pathetic and just unlikeable. The key behind the first film is that we liked the characters but that's not the case here as all of the newbies are just annoying and you can't help but want to pick on them as well. Another major problem are the characters from the first movie as they too are underwritten and come off looking like cheap, fake copies of the originals. Curtis Armstrong, McGinley, Julie Montgomery and Robert Carradine are just a few of the folks brought back here and more get dragged into the film at the very end for brief cameos. I really like the idea of bringing back the original group but if they were going to go through all the trouble of getting everyone signed it looks like they would have spent some extra time on an actual story. What we have here is just one bad sequence after another and we know where it's all going to go as we get the typical tired story of the nerds having to fight yet again. This here is a real mess of a movie and a major insult to the original film. The only reason this thing avoids a BOMB rating is due to McGinley and Carradine sharing a few nice moments when they first meet up after all these years.

Terrible movie. And what's with Stan claiming he graduated Adams college in '80 and Lewis claiming he graduated in '81? It just made an already bad movie that much more confusing. The original was released in 1984 and the sequel in 1987. Neither movie made reference to having taken place in the past. As a matter of fact, the technical gizmos the nerds played with were 1980s stuff. Even the clothing and decor were 1980s. I thought the first two movies were pretty good. I can even remember going to see the sequel when it came out in the summer of '87. It was on my 18th birthday. I couldn't even make it all the way through this one. I'm not even going to waste my time on part 4.

When I saw the annoucement for Nerds 4 I thought of Nerds 3 which I saw a week before. I laughed about Nerds 3. It was so funny, the Lewis character really did it. But as most movies it's good for a one time watch. The first part wasn't funny at all, close to boring. Then after the break the party with the food fight came. From there the movie improved but it didn't came too the level of humor in Nerds 3. Come on the nerds weren't nerds some times they where pathetic it wasn't funny anymore.All in all it's a movie too watch if you have nothing better to do.

To put your minds at ease...this is a boiled down version of Revenge of the Nerds II, which was a boiled down version of the first movie. SO...if you enjoyed both of those a lot, you'll like this one too. If you didn't like one of those, don't bother. Watch something else.