In 1999, things are going to be all kinds of fucked up: Stanley Kubrick is going
to evolve into a skeleton, dogs and cats not living together, all the computers
in the Universe are going stop working at exactly midnight on New Year’s Eve,
Stephen King is going to get run over by a moron playing with his dog, thousands
of violent mass suicides inside movie theaters showing
WILD WILD WEST
and the American public school system will be so f’d that the Department of
Education Defense will experiment in using some
TERMINATOR-style killbots as teachers. Sounds like a well-thought-out plan.
Unfortunately, the three “inhuman teaching monsters” chosen to straighten
up the student body of Seattle’s Kennedy High are all completely insane, so
before you can say “Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, cum in my rectum now!” the
robot teachers have graduated from simple karate moves to MDK. Murder Death
Kill.
Time has not been kind to CLASS OF 1999. I remember seeing it in the theater
back in 1990 and really enjoying it thanks to the quick pace, above average
acting and goofy story, but watching it again now for this brilliantly written
review, CO1999 is dated and severely lacking in the action department. Still,
it’s worth watching for anybody curious about it.
Steady pace, nostalgic early 1990’s special effects, wacky futuristic clothing,
an indoor club where people are constantly firing guns into the air, zero
nudity, zero gore, very little blood, “The Nine Inch Nails” in the closing
credits, some really old-looking high school students, a background actor who
looks a lot like Rose McGowan, a few cool stunts, explosions, Stacy Keach with
an albino power mullet.
Part 1 - Class of 1984 (1982)
Part 3 - Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994)