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Once again Dexter Riley (a young Kurt Russell) and his science lab pals astound and confound Medfield College's head dean when their latest concoction might either save the struggling institution fr...( read more  read more... )om bankruptcy or get the top-level staff fired. In this third of the four Medfield films, Riley accidentally ingests a vitamin compound that gives him superhuman strength, leading to sponsorship by a cereal company and possible defeat of a rival university in a weightlifting contest. Although today Medfield's team would be disqualified for drug use, in this pre-steroid scandal picture it's the scheming adults who are the bad guys. Thanks to a Medfield Board of Directors traitor (an amusingly villainous Dick Van Patten), the competing sponsor sends a couple of bungling burglars (one played by Cesar Romero) to steal the formula. Kidnapping, hypnosis, and a down-to-the-wire weightlifting finale mark this 92-minute, G-rated film, which is short on subtlety but long on wholesomeness. Kids as young as 4 will enjoy the weightlifting and burglary antics, but the school politics and corporate warfare subplots will lose them temporarily. --Kimberly Heinrichs

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Directed by: Vincent McEveety

Release Date: February 6, 1975

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  • Godless
    March 20, 2006
    Godless
    How does he keep getting these powers?
  • DrLappos
    October 17, 2008
    DrLappos
    Kurt Russell plays the high school preppy type who learns he can lift heavy things.....silly but it made me smile.
  • JamesThePirate
    December 14, 2008
    JamesThePirate
    Though this one isn't my favorite out of the unoffical Medfield College trilogy, it
    s stil decent enough to watch a few times.
    Even though the effects are cheesy (I was able to spot wires on several occasions) and some of the students acting sub-par at best, and the story start...( read more)s out the same as the rest and almost ends about the same as well. The acting is good and they managed to have quite a few big names in this one too. Russel shines throughout the whole movie. Romero and Bakalyan are the perfect bumbling villians and Flynn has the Higgins schtick down to a tee by now. This one will probably be my least favorite out of all three to be honest, but I'm still able to enjoy it and if you like the old Disney family films, you will too.

    "Hurry Up kid, your running out of time!"
    "Ready ref."
    "What was that?"
    "That? Oh that was Dexter Riley, one of our students."
  • leip
    September 8, 2007
    leip
    A favourite of mine when I was a kid. My kids laughed through it too.
  • chris200098
    August 31, 2007
    chris200098
    i liked it but it was ok
  • kcthinker2000
    July 15, 2007
    kcthinker2000
    I loved this series of movies.
  • mom4teachr
    July 10, 2007
    mom4teachr
    I love the old Disney movies with Kurt Russell.
  • msablan2
    July 5, 2007
    msablan2
    I bet this movie is so gay.
  • djrobinmac
    June 3, 2007
    djrobinmac
    havent seen in a long time

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