Riff Randell (P.J. Soles) is a teenage rock ‘n’ roller who battles with the stern new principal (Mary Woronov) at her high school, who hates rock music, and tries to prove its adverse effects with laboratory experiments on mice. A boy (Vincent Van Patten) tries to get a date with Riff through the teenage sex counselor (Clint Howard) who works out of a stall in the bathroom, but Riff is too obsessed with the upcoming Ramones show to pay any attention. Everything culminates in an explosive, anarchic finale. It’s hilarious, the music is amazing, every scene is energized and exciting, and P.J. Soles is unbelievably lovable. It’s pure, undiluted entertainment, that seems to have been manufactured in a film factory of fun.

I couldn't help but feel sad for the mother mouse whose children exploded. So sad.

Can't help but love The Ramones in this. Hilarious.

A one of a kind.

Not very punk, but totally fun with an awesome soundtrack!

Literally one of the best movies of the 70's.

Movie #29 of The June Challenge

A concert movie with a bogus high school plot. This is really just an excuse to get up and dance. And it's magnificent. It's like Grease if Grease weren't completely lame.

Hey, Ho, Let's Go!

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School isn’t a particularly deep movie, and the acting in it is fairly pedestrian (though there isn’t any truly bad acting in the film.) But it’s filled with a sense of humor that really lifts the work, with typical high school hijinks, some goofy surrealism (the mouse people), and clever sight gags. The humor, combined with the great soundtrack, makes an otherwise “OK” film a lot of fun to watch. Read full review.

A wonderful tongue-in-cheek parody of teenage rock movies with fab performances by cult icons, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, and Clint Howard. For my money, the film's funniest joke is portraying the Ramones as big rock stars and teenage heartthrobs. Back in '79, punk was absolutely hated by almost everyone except a few of us social outcasts and losers. Admitting that I listened to the Ramones was like inviting the jocks at our school to kick my ass and stuff me in a locker. Not one girl I knew thought they were cute, which made the scene where P.J Soles fantasizes about doing the Horizontal Blitzkrieg Bop with Joey, absolutely hilarious.

Alan Arkush’s 1979 cult classic Rock N Roll High School offers up everything you could ever want in a campy goofball comedy. On the surface, it appears to be nothing more than a shameless promotion for The Ramones, but time has been good to this film and it set the stage for a slew of copycats. It’s frantic, zany, and completely ridiculous in the best ways possible. Though it was released in ’79, this is the movie that rang in the 80s.

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Rock 'n' Roll High School may have involved the Ramones, but that didn't stop it from being mediocre outside of the few Ramones songs played.

Maybe worth at least one watch if you like the Ramones.

Cheestastic fun. It's got The Ramones, PJ Soles, and Clint Howard what more could you ask for.

Way more fun than I thought it would be, and the Ramones songs (and all the other great 70s tunes) really keep the momentum going. Cool to see such great female leads in a film, where the guys (except The Ramones, or course) take a back seat. Some lame jokes for sure, but some really great zingers and a few wonderful visual gags.

In the ending sequence (without giving anything away), I wonder if there might have been a technical issue with a special effect, as the actors seemed really close to the danger a couple of times. Or maybe my eyes deceived me.