Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellow stars, who never approach his level, keep us from taking Bad Manners too seriously. Evidently unaware of the R rating, writers Houston and Kwong seem intent on making another Porky's II or Meatballs II without offering any first feature to establish characters or situations. In the Bleeding Heart, the kids really walk and talk like kids, albeit somewhat obnoxious kids, but taste sometimes get pushed aside by desperate lunges for the cheap laugh, as in, "What's that smell coming out of your sleeping bag?" At times funny, the gross-out school gets simply disgusting at times: contrary...
...Brady Bunch" et al wouldn't even allow in their outtakes. Still, the humor that might make Bad Manners more than just a fun night out with yourself disappoints in the end. Filmed in under backing, it sports an uneven quality peculiar to low-budget Hollywood. If Bobby Houston follows through with plans to offer a second with a larger budget, Bad Manners II could retain its humor and develop into the better movie it often hints at. But then you'd probably have to take someone along to see that movie...