"Back to School" is loaded with bawdy, crude and hilarious one-liners, double entendres and sight gags that are sure to offend the uptight. But if you stay away because you hear it's raunchy, you'll miss a good and surprisingly sweet movie.

| Feb 27, 2025

"Back to School" is a one-joke movie made bearable by a steady stream of one-liners and Dangerfield's lovably hapless personality.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2025

Back to School is chock full of gags, trademark Dangerfield jokes and the comic's endearing personal warmth, resulting in belly laughs galore.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2025

[Back to School is] the year's funniest slapstick satire since "The Money Pit."

| Feb 27, 2025

...after a while, you begin to look a little closer, and you realize that, amazingly, [Rodney Dangerfield is] giving a performance.

| Feb 27, 2025

A feature-length skit custom-tailored for its star, "Back to School" will keep Rodney Dangerfield's fans giggling at his predictable antics and rude one-liners.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2025

It's just as well that [Rodney Dangerfield] has so much charm and guile, because everything but his performance is pretty ghastly.

| Feb 27, 2025

Back to School is not a great movie. It's simple-minded and simplistic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2025

You would think, out of seven people, including Harold Ramis of "Ghostbusters" and Rodney Dangerfield, someone could have written a few funny lines. Wrong.

| Feb 27, 2025

Without Rodney, though, "Back to School" would get no respect. It's his success and his alone.

| Feb 27, 2025

"Back to School" will never be mistaken for great cinema but it has no trouble qualifying as very good comedy, getting laughs from the beginning and sustaining them all the way through.

| Feb 27, 2025

"Back to School" is a highly enjoyable low comedy...It gives Dangerfield a chance to exploit his persona's blend of cynicism and exuberance and his churning, spluttering delivery without bending the movie's chassis out of shape.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2025

...this is like a tired old Jerry Lewis movie with too many comic set-ups that feel strained and are not pursued with honest effort.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 27, 2025

Back to School does what Easy Money did not - it gives Rodney Dangerfield's fans a film to laugh at.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2025

"Back to School" is filled with harmless, tasteless hijinks, and it's briskly, if a bit sloppily directed by Alan Metter. But Dangerfield is the main attraction, and the main reason to see this delightfully silly romp across campus.

| Feb 27, 2025

...Dangerfield gets to mug and pop his eyes and do his funny walk, but in moderation, and these bits of business are integrated into a story in which the Dangerfield comic personality has room to do more than deliver put downs and punchlines...

| Feb 27, 2025

..."Back to School" is so far one of the funniest movies of the year.

| Feb 27, 2025

Still, this is one of the best scripts [Rodney Dangerfield] has ever had to work with - between the one-liners and double-takes, there's actually a story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2025

With so many cooks at work on what was supposed to be a comic broth, it's no surprise that the results are more like a dog's breakfast.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 27, 2025

"Back to School" is not [an] inspired, thought-provoking drama by any shade of the imagination, but it doesn't pretend to be...It's an enjoyable, welcome and satisfying diversion.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 27, 2025