Synopsis
Their time has come!
A nerdy college student is pressured to help a jock write love letters to the campus beauty, even though the nerd is in love with her himself.
1986 Directed by Chuck Vincent
A nerdy college student is pressured to help a jock write love letters to the campus beauty, even though the nerd is in love with her himself.
I've had (and will continue to have) a very busy week, so I don't have much time to write or read much, but I'll try to recoup now with a few reviews. First up is Wimps, Chuck Vincent's goofy yet sweet interpretation of Cyrano de Bergerac, as co-written with frequent collaborator Craig Horrall (Sex Appeal, If Looks Could Kill, Deranged, Bad Blood, etc.). Here, Sex Appeal star Louie Bonanno (who, again, is now a spiritual guru) plays the lovelorn geek-turned-scribe, Francis, who pens romantic letters to fellow college student Roxanne (adult film actress Tracey Adams) as a front for his fraternity house roommate, football hero Charles Conrad (Jim Abele, still a working character actor on TV shows like Pretty Little…
Not what I expected at all
Everything from the VHS cover to the first twenty minutes said this was a mindless teen sex comedy like Preppies. Then Chuck Vincent pulls out the rug and gives us his adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac - except this time it’s a nerd helping a jock win over a hottie librarian
Strangely this came out a year before Steve Martin’s Roxanne, so let’s just all agree that Martin copied Wimps
By far the most angsty of Chuck Vincent’s sex comedies, and it suffers for it. His movies are best when they are joyful celebrations of goofiness and parades of boobies and butts - lighthearted sex romps with happy endings where everyone falls in love. Not tales of heartbroken nerds.
All that being said there are definitely some hilarious scenes mixed in. Specifically any time Veronica Hart shows up as the liquored up hooker. Pure comedy gold
It starts out pretty zany, but slumps into a very run of the mill movie. We've seen this storyline before, Cyrano De Bergerac/Roxanne/Truth About Cats & Dogs/etc...but unfortunately, none of the characters here push this into new territory.
It's simply passable, with 2 or 3 stand out scenes. We get a quick tickle from Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Hart really goes for the gold during a drunken dinner scene. The beginning treats us to a frat hazing spectacle that sees some nerds swinging from the ceiling by their jock straps, trying to eat spaghetti from a table below. So, I can't say DON'T watch it...would be best viewed as a midday distraction while you're doing chores.
After being accepted into a fraternity, Francis, a wimp, is subjected to having to teach all the jocks how to improve their grades after the school's football fund is pulled out unless they can bring up their GPAs. In return Francis just wants to be set up on a date with the beautiful and intelligent librarian, but it's not going to be easy now that the lead jock is using Francis' mental capacity to fool the librarian into like him instead!
Wimps is your average '80s college sex comedy but still manages to have more heart that most. It may be a little rough around the edges and not as laugh-out-loud funny as the more well-known entries into the comedy sub-genre, but it's still not a terrible way to waste 85 minutes.
Synopsis: Even though he doesn't fit the typical mold, Francis is pledging Phi Beta Kappa because his father is a frat legend. This works out for the boys because they find out that to stay on the football team they have to have a 2.9 GPA. In comes Francis to save the day. His roommate Charles is a ladies man and football star who gets rejected by intellectual smoke show librarian Roxanne. Using Francis as a wordsmith he vows to bed Roxanne and make her fall in love with him. Unfortunately for Francis, he falls in love with the beautiful young woman as well.
Review: Voiding any adult films on the story, this interpretation of The Cyrano de Bergerac probably has the most nudity and college hijinks. The drunk prostitute, played by the always reliable Veronica Hart was easily the funniest bit of the whole movie
Carnage Count 0/5
Sleaze Score 4/5
“I wish you could conjugate as well as you copulate.”
Starts off with a bizarre fever dream montage of every possible 80’s college movie stereotype including the rare and seldom executed “hazing via forced spaghetti feeding in a swinging harness while wearing nothing but your underwear” scene.
It then turns into a Cyrano de Bergerac trope with about half the run time being dedicated to every conceivable gag involving one person covertly feeding lines to another in order to “woo” another.
Also, you’re only getting one wimp in this. If you require the titular wimps, look elsewhere. I’m guessing the title was just a ploy to rake in some of that sweet sweet residual Revenge of he Nerds cash.
Did NOT live up to poster... or title... or tagline.
There is only one WIMP that matters. Get your "S" out of here, movie. There is only a "His"... not a "Their". I expected a sleazy DTV Revenge of the Nerds ripoff but it's a Cyrano de Bergerac thing that can't decide whether it's sleazy or sappy.