MartinHafer Well, at least this one has closed captions AND DVD captions...if anyone cares! So, the deaf and hard of hearing can also enjoy watching films that are awful piles of dreck! It's interesting that two films in the IMDb Bottom 100 have similar titles. There is SNOWBOARD ACADEMY and SURF SCHOOL--which would apparently indicate that some sort of trend might be occurring. Perhaps there will be a ROLLER BLADE UNIVERSITY or the like coming out in the next few years! When the film begins, it's obvious that writer Joel Silverman had watched a lot of formulaic teen films from the last 25 years. All the characters seem like caricatures. There is the female Japanese exchange student who doesn't speak English (a knockoff of the female French exchange student from BETTER OFF DEAD), the hyper-religious mom and her hyper-square virgin son (straight from CARRIE--but without the insane magic powers), the obligatory black teen (from practically ALL teen movies--and why do they always come in ones?!), the punk rock-ish boy with weird hair (again, from most teen films), the Goth girl who is so obviously 'hot' underneath all that black makeup (but, of course, no one recognizes this) and gear and the very nice AND hot leading man (can't the leading guy NOT be hot for once?!). It's all about as believable as the Tooth Fairy and betrays hack writing.Taylor Negron and Diane Delano play an older couple who are rather repulsive. It's not just that they behave like horny dogs in heat but they are just gross people. Not a particularly pleasant couple and not what any sane person would consider 'comic relief'! There is a chimp on hand as well. Whenever the ape appears, references to bestiality seem to follow. Nice touch, huh?! The appearance of Harland William did not bode well. While he can be funny when he just talks off the cuff on TV, in films he has a very strong propensity to appear in ANYTHING...as long as it's bad. When ROCKETMAN is one of the best movie of his career, you know you're in trouble! The females in the movie, with the exception of the Goth girl, are there for pretty much one thing...sex. They are horny bimbos who have no depth whatsoever or personalities and they are nothing but walking pairs of breasts--which you see quite often. I doubt if N.O.W. would approve.The film is about a group of losers (listed above) who go to Costa Rica a week ahead of their fellow senior class members so they can ski the K-2...no, wait, that's also BETTER OFF DEAD (and about 4523 other teen films). No, they want to learn to surf and out-surf the stuck-up jerks who are graduating with them in only a few weeks. Wow,...now that's an important and worthwhile goal! Overall, there is really nothing to recommend this film. It's unfunny, crude, horribly written and appallingly unlikable. Remarks about body crabs and crotch itching, images of Williams sitting on the toilet taking a dump and, once again, the bestiality references make this one abominably offensive and stupid film. I could only imagine it being of interest to people who are either actively psychotic or under the influence of very, very strong intoxicants. A loser of a film that I couldn't have hated any more. Repellent garbage...at best.Currently, this film is ranked #50 on the IMDb Bottom 100 of the worst films ever made. I think this is way too generous and might just give the impression that this film is better than it actually is!

purpcow2 There is no doubt that this film was not intended to be an Oscar winner, but for what it is, i think the film was a success. We all know going into the film that it's a farce comedy meant to take you out of the real world and make you laugh, and that's exactly what the film did for me. I throughly enjoyed clicking my brain off for the duration of the film and simply relaxing and enjoying the humor. Harland was great as always. Also, considering that I myself am a something less than proficient surfer who nonetheless tries real hard and truly enjoys the sport for what it is (even though more often than not i'm falling off of my board), i think it was great and fun to watch the underdogs do the same. When you're out there on the ocean it's hard not to take the guff it gives you and get back out on the board, so watching anything surf related is rewarding when you can relate to it and laugh at it all the same.If you're looking for some relaxation and laughs, I recommend this movie!

windypoplar All i wanted from this comedy was to laugh. I did, frequently, so Surf School gets a thumbs up. It concerns some young American students who go to Costa Rica, nicely filmed on location, to beat their rival students at a surf contest. Corey Sevier is our hunky hero, try not laughing when Rip calls him "hairdo!, Jordan who leads some rather appealing misfits. Thers Sisqo," Brothers don't surf!" and Laura Bell Bundy as a very hot goth girl, the guy who played Taz was funny and poor virgin Larry!Harland Williams plays Rip, their somewhat water-logged surf instructor, Williams is funny in this, I think he's much better in little supporting parts than leads. Some of his dialog is clear off the cuff and very funny. Our heroes have little bread so they bunk at a commune run by '60's radicals. The couple is hysterically played by Taylor Negron and Diana Delano. Negron is always funny, they should bottle this dude! He's really funny here with some odd accent. Diana Delano should get big kudos for bravery for playing this part! The usual people are here too, the sexy Latina, the monkey who justs wants to be loved, the creepy popular girls, the surf bum. Its pretty funny gags one after the other. The pacing is a little slow, but it clocks in under 80 minutes so... Oh, did I mention the Swedish bikini triplets? Worth your buck right there. Actually there isn't much sex here at Surf School, in fact Larry learns what being a man truly means. The "Twister" scene is hilarious. and yes, they do win, but didn't you figure that? This is a silly, funny flick, thats really perfect for lazy summer viewing. Tunmbs up! Oh wait thats not my thumb! Heh

stevoprimo21 Ordered the movie and finally got it and watched it with 3 mates. we laughed our arses off and the girls were hot, hot, hot. The 3 Swedish girls killed us. The surf bum was lunatic and we saw him in Rocketman. He said some things that were so funny we replayed the parts as soon as they were over. The speech he does on when he glued some blokes package to a fish was genius. Then when he talks some crazy language at the end is hilarious. The funniest was when he's telling the sotry of the ghost girl he was in love with. Also the monkey spanking was good stuff. The girl who played the Spanish maid was so killer sexy. But I thought the surf bum made the movie. I'd say it's a 8 out of 10.