It's Leslie Hindenberg (Michelle Meyrink)'s senior year. Melanie (Lisa Langlois) is her best friend. Her dad (Christopher Lloyd) is a coach at school and he threatens anyone who touches his daughter. Liz Sampson (Colleen Camp) is the weird new girl. Mr. Porter (Ernie Hudson) is the new principal. Alan Holt (Cameron Dye) is obsessed with sex and Liz seems to be obsessed with him. Leslie is afraid her mole is cancerous and mistakes her doctor's overheard comment. She thinks she has 3 months to live and vows to try sex.

There are no laughs. It's high on the cheese factor. This is weak work from director Martha Coolidge. The production is bad and this suffers when compared to the start of a string of great John Hughes teen movies. I love Meyrink but her character doesn't have much to offer. The boys are even worst with Cameron Dye offering even less. I'm willing to live with twentysomethings passing themselves off as teenagers but they are horrible at it. It's 'Animal House' transfered to high school. It's almost bad enough to be camp. It's possible to watch this in that way.

Did everybody's parents have a copy of Dr. Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex? What a frightening book that was, what with its Chris Foss (Flash Gordon, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jodorowsky's Dune) illustrations of incredibly hairy flower children engaging in all manner of marital congress.

Paramount Pictures thought that with the name of the book, they'd have a big movie, too. They spent all kinds of money to get the right and then paid Charles Grodin - who was told the movie could be about anything - to write the script. So he wrote a script about writing the script. That movie was eventually made as Movers & Shakers.

Next, John Hughes was to write a script that Penny Marshall would have directed and John Belushi would have starred in, but then Belushi died. That would have been a National Lampoon movie and the studio tried to keep their name on the film before the publisher, Matty Simmons, made a huge deal of the Lampoon having nothing to do with the film.

Finally, Paramount was running out of time and had just four months left on their option. They went to TV producer Frank Konigsberg, who said "They knew that in television you do things quickly. We threw together a script. They wanted me to use director Martha Coolidge, who'd just made Valley Girl. It was a job. We just had to get it done. I didn't think it was a successful movie at all. It was awful. Martha hated it. I hated it."

As for Coolidge, she would say, "Paramount insisted on topless girls running down the hall because they thought the formula demanded it and it was totally gratuitous. I hated putting them in for no reason and argued against it. But when the film was previewed the audience, particularly young women and girls, hated the nudity so Paramount then asked me to cut as much of it out as I could!"

She described that experience as miserable, telling her official site, "We were under constant pressure and scrutiny to do the impossible, we had eight days of prep, 20 days to shoot and my A. D. quit because he was so angry."

By the end, she applied for an Alan Smithee credit for her directing. However, her name stayed on. She'd follow it up with Real Genius, which I hope was a more rewarding experience (It was - despite turning it down twice, once it was rewritten, she came around to the film and really got into it after producer Brian Grazer told her, "Making a movie should be fun!" She said that he ended up being "supportive, great to be around and knowledgeable about comedy and film production.").

As for the movie, it's all about high school senior Leslie Hindenberg (Judy from Revenge of the Nerds, who left acting to practice Zen Buddhism),who gets a mole looked at and learns that she only has six months to live. That leaves her with one goal in life: to lose her virginity.

There's a good cast with Cameron Dye (Valley Girl, Out of the Dark) as the love interest and Christopher Lloyd as Leslie's gym teacher dad, plus Colleen Camp, Ernie Hudson, Darren Dalton and Canadian scream queen Lisa Langlois (Happy Birthday to Me, Deadly Eyes).

But otherwise, if you were expecting something better, this isn't it. I don't blame Coolidge for the failure of this film.

No surprises… typical bubblegum teenage sex comedy of the times by the director (Martha Coolidge) who gave us the romantic teen flick "Valley Girl" the year before. "Joy of Sex" must have slipped by, as I've never even heard of it but it amusingly delivers in what makes these films work. Raunchy (without really going all the way),crude and randomly madcap with its slim story cobbled together by running gags and visual humour aplenty… namely sexually orientated and being a virgin lusting for one thing. While not always funny, it remains engagingly bouncy. Thanks to some memorable support roles. A boisterous Christopher Lloyd is fun as the school's coach, Colleen Camp goes oddball, but with a feisty edge as the new student, Joanne Baron is simply eccentric as an uptight teacher and Ernie Hudson frowns his brows as the stern principal. Cameron Dye and Michelle Meyrink are likable enough as the leads… looking to fulfil their urging hormones. Also the lovely Lisa Langlois appears.

Leslie Helenberg has just entered senior year, but going to the doctors to get a moll checked out she mistakenly believes she hasn't got too long to live and goes about trying to lose her virginity. However it's quite hard when her father is the school's PE coach. While on the other side of the coin is Alan Holt whose pals brag about their sexual encounters, which leaves him rather frustrated as he can't stop thinking about sex as he goes about trying to loose his virginity anyway possible.

Quite juvenile with a stereotypical script, however some serious issues are brought up (teen pregnancy),but the focus never stems away from the upfront humour. Undemanding teen fodder.