Directed by: Joe Roth
Starring: Robert Carradine, Timothy Busfield, Donald Gibb, Bradley Whitford, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Andrew Cassesse, Ed Lauter, Anthony Edwards, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Priscilla Lopez, James Hong, Barry Sobel
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise brings the Tri-Lambs (or nerds as they're known to the rest of the world) to Fort Lauderdale and they are once again persecuted by the Alpha Betas, who have taken their hatred for nerds national. Returning for this sequel are Lewis (Carradine), Arnold Poindexter (Busfield), Booger (Armstrong), Lamar (Scott), and Wormser (Cassesse), who has sprouted in the three years since the first film.
The guys think they've gained respect since they were able to usurp the jocks at their college, but they find themselves with cancelled hotel reservations, being pranked, and thrown in jail for a crime they didn't commit, all courtesy of the Alpha Betas led by Roger Lattimore (Whitford) who makes Stan Gable from the first film tame by comparison. Also along with the Alpha Betas is Ogre (Gibb), who still obsesses over making nerds' lives miserable. However, his character's arc takes an unexpected turn later. The Tri-Lambs only wanted to attend a national fraternity conference and enjoy the sun and babes of Fort Lauderdale, but nope.
The nerds stay at the dumpy Hotel Corral Essex, and when certain bulbs on the neon sign are burned out, reads Hot Oral Sex. It has a pool which resembles a toxic waste dump, a Ricky Ricardo wing, and a denizen named Edgar Poe Wong (Hong), who is even more gross than Booger if that's possible. Lewis' girl Betty doesn't appear in this film, freeing him up to pursue the kind blonde hotel clerk Sunny (Thorne-Smith) as a love interest. Anthony Edwards appears in a cameo as Gilbert, but since he's laid up with a broken leg from a chess game, he is no go for Fort Lauderdale.
This sequel doesn't have the rowdy magic of the original film, but it has its moments, and the villains are dastardly enough for us to root for their comeuppance. Don't ask me how the group is able to escape from a deserted island in the middle of the ocean using an old tank left on the island and arrive just in time to interrupt an important meeting vote, but I suppose you don't watch a movie like Revenge of the Nerds II for abject realism.
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