Bradley Gregg, Darren E. Burrows, John P. Ryan

Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot. The teachers do a god job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far and some students get su...( read more  read more... )spicious.

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R, 99 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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  • October 31, 2008
    Good potboiler. Early Michael J. Fox.
  • September 30, 2007
    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.
  • June 15, 2007
    1999 seemed such a long way off whn this film came out, predicted slightly wrong maybe, well the cyborgs anyway
  • July 1, 2008
    Corn-ball fun.
  • March 21, 2008
    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 more)a lot more than when I first saw this.
  • August 23, 2009
    It was an enjoyable watch when I was younger. But, looking at it now, it just doesn't have the same effect. You have all these high school "kids" all experts at taking eachother out, but lack the ability to take out their robotic teachers. It's good for laughs and nitpicking. Not...( read more)hing more.
  • July 22, 2009
    Cast (Pam Grier, Stacy Keach & Malcolm Mcdowell) goes a long way in Class of 1999. No relation to the excellent Class of 1984 this one in the end is a Terminator rip off.
  • February 21, 2009
    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.
  • January 23, 2009
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  • September 27, 2008
    Hilariously bad. A cross between Escape From New York, The Terminator and countless other similar films. With an implausible plot, over the top violence, derivative screenplay, horrible acting and cheesy dialog this silly movie is good for a few laughs and that's about it. It's...( read more) basically a ridiculous low budget movie with horrible special FX, especially relating to the cyborgs.

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  • MRFI
    April 14, 2007
    I agree it is dated now. But its one of my favourites. It does paint a bleak picture but it also has some reality to it(the opening narrative sequence is scarily close to what is really going on today). there is violence in schools and its not going to go away. Perhaps in the year 2099 it will be as it was seen in this movie.
  • SeleneBlack
    March 27, 2007
    I saw it at first in the Tv and I loved it! It's too old but it's too very original. I recommended it to anyone!

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