This film essentially follows in the footsteps of its predecessor with four high school boys getting in trouble with the principal due to sexual misconduct and subsequently being forced to attend summer school in order to graduate. Needless to say, none of them have learned any lessons from their past disciplinary actions and as a result they repeat the same behaviors that got them in trouble before. This time, however, their main focus is on the new French teacher by the name of "Miss Mona Lott" (Cynthia Belliveau) trying every trick they know to score with her. What they don't count on is the fact that "Principal Arsenault" (Mike MacDonald) has the same overall mindset as they do and seems to always appear at the worst possible time. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a rather dull comedy which featured poor acting, juvenile humor, awful music and a paper-thin plot. To be sure, there were a couple of attractive actresses featured in this film--with Cynthia Belliveau probably standing out the most-but even so their presence wasn't enough to make much of a difference overall.

Four twenty-year olds who have been stuck in the twelfth grade for four years because of all the babes they continue to score with are sent by their fed-up principal to a "special school" in the summer to supposedly teach a lesson, but these leopards don't change their spots.

LOOSE SCREWS is basically another in a long line of PORKY'S wannabes with more (less than subdued)sexual innuendo within the jokes, names of characters, and even the schools than you can shake a stick at. Lines of dialogue featured between characters contain—particularly between guys and girls (who seem to be just as naughty and sexually liberated as their horny male counterparts)—constant references to and proposals for sex.

The film is a tool of titillation and features non-stop boobage. It seems the casting director must've been very convincing in orchestrating a long line of willing girls with no inhibitions whatsoever, because so many wind up removing their shirts: seriously, the female form is an important character in movies like LOOSE SCREWS. Either you like movies like this or you find them reprehensible, because immoral behavior and open attitudes about shagging at any given moment are the main dish on the menu of LOOSE SCREWS.

The plot finds time for the four buddies (with sex ALWAYS on their minds) to compete to see who can bed the new French teacher, keeping a scoring system regarding who can score with the most chicks, with even a beach dance number for good measure. Here's the names for the four main characters: Brad LOVEtt(Bryan Genesse, who dresses in drag so he can spend the night in the female dorm(!),including a bathtub scene with a girl he soon becomes involved with),Steve HARDman(Lance Van Der Kolk, the typical blond hunk who almost gets caught in bed with his new school's principal's wife!),HUgh G. RECTION( Alan Deveau),and Marvin EATMORE (Jason Warren, the heavy character whose appetite and large size were fodder for fat jokes especially in the 80s). When you have female characters named Tracey GRATEHEAD (great head) and MONA LOTT (moan a lot) or even Hilda Von Blow(the typical scary German woman who favors a Butch female Nazi),then you ought to know the kind of sleazy comedy you are in for.

There is positively nothing here anything less than gratuitous. There's a visit from the four goofballs to a strip club featuring the usual wet T-shirt contest, not to mention, the "revenge on the principal" lifted right out of PORKY'S (also, the bar the four guys visit is called THE PIGPIN, sheesh) at the end when the gang get even with the disciplinarian who expels them (rightfully so) for their continual antics in his school. The principal, Mr. Arenault (Mike MacDonald),is one of those types who wears a scowl on his face and punishes the gang for their "errors in distaste" (such as writing on the chalkboard 1000 times about not bothering the French teacher, or cleaning the school floors with a tooth brush) so you know he will be victimized at the very end for such deeds. Deborah Lobban is the French teacher the boys try to get jiggy with—the "hot teacher" angle played to the hilt as only the 80s could do it.

I think many films lift the sex from PORKY'S without seeing the other ingredients which made the movie such a success: there's heart and strong characterizations in that movie, including the awesome authenticity of the period depicted, which seem left out of all the imitators.

"Loose Screws" is a radical party movie with an awesome, quasi-new wave & "fake rock" soundtrack. The lead actors are older, sleazy guys playing sex-crazed teenagers. When it comes to the females in this film, obviously "loose" is the operative word. This film delivers non-stop idiocy and perversion in a way that "Preppies" and other teen sex comedies of the day fail to live up to. There is no attempt to be sentimental or involve the characters in an annoying action sub-plot.

One of the best moments of the film occurs during the climax scene at the graduation assembly. The 4 main guys kind-of magically become a new wave-ish rock band and turn the entire ceremony into a party. Disregard other reviews that peg this film as garbage; those people JUST DON'T GET IT! This film delivers non-stop idiocy in a way that "Preppies" and many other teen sex comedies of the day fail to live up to. "Loose Screws" is truly unhinged!

FYI: The Summer school exteriors were filmed at St. Andrews College in Auroura, Ontario. Pay special attention to the scenes shot on a chilly, dismal Toronto "beach". There is also a great second-story-window-fall which looks really quite painful (couldn't afford a stunt man?). The soundtrack was never released, but one of the musical highlights is available on used vinyl: "Circular Impressions" by The Extras.