Between the first Friday the 13th and the House series, Sean S. Cunningham made this teen sex comedy. As my wife Becca reminded me, one of the only differences between this movie and a slasher is that no one gets killed for all the sex and drinking. It's a remnant of some forgotten time, when people in their late twenties could play college students and bars were named things like Games People Play.

Two nerds share a hotel room at the Breeze and Seas in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with two cooler guys from Florida. There - I've established most of the plot for you. Ah - one of the nerds is a rich kid with a politico dad who is tracking him down. And also, some guy wants to shut the hotel down.

1983 was a way different time. A time when hijinks could be kind of homoerotic and perhaps no one noticed. A time when dudes could sleep four to a room and one of them could bring back a girl, who would willingly have sex with all of them present and no one thought this was perhaps a bit creepy. A time when things like me too and drunk driving were just future notions. Indeed, there's a scene where a girl is driving a convertible and holding a can of Miller Lite the entire time.

At the time this was made, Coke owned Columbia Pictures. So just in case you wonder why there's an extended sequence where a girl remarks how she's thirsty before sex and would really like a Coke before a guy goes to a large Coke branded machine to buy her a can, there's your answer.

My favorite bit of trivia for this film is that Corinne Alphen, the former wife of Wiseguy star Ken Wahl, is in it. A two-time Penthouse Pet of the Month and a Pet of the Year, today she's a professional Tarot card reader. And hey - keep your eyes open for an early appearance by Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star Jeff Garlin.

Cunningham would follow this movie with a much darker film about teens in Florida - The New Kids. What a double feature!

SPRING BREAK is a typical high school comedy from Sean S. Cunningham, the notable director behind the famous Friday the 13th and the man who helped popularise the slasher genre in America. This follow-up to that movie is far less serious and far more predictable, a lighthearted comedy about a couple of dumb guys who go to the beach looking to score with numerous hot girls. It's a typical kind of film, full of the usual pranks and bad behaviour, with women the objects of lust and adults the antagonists determined to spoil the fun. Expect copious overacting and not a great deal else, certainly not much in the way of fun.

Four male college students -- uptight Nelson (a solid and appealing performance by David Knell),his more laid-back pal Adam (affable Perry Lang),smooth dude Stu (hunky Paul Land),and rowdy O.T. (a marvelously raucous portrayal by Steve Bassett) -- go to Fort Lauderdale, Florida during spring break so they let it all hang out and party hearty. Director Sean S. Cunningham, working from a blithely inane and immaterial script by David Smilow, perfectly nails the pervasive sense of carefree joy and abandon that's the very easygoing essence of spring break: we've got a gnarly-rockin' soundtrack, a plethora of beautiful babes in skimpy bikinis, a bellyflop diving competition, both wet t-shirt and He-shirt contests (meaning there's yummy eye candy for guys and gals alike),mass consumption of beer, some romance, and a pleasing amount of delicious bare female skin all served up hot and lively in a gloriously vibrant and unapologetic celebration of pure mindless hedonism. Moreover, the main characters are quite likable and this film is less raunchy and more good-natured than most of its ilk. The cast have a field day with the cheerfully silly material: Knell, Lang, Land, and Bassett make for engaging leads, radiant and ravishing former "Penthouse" Pet of the Year Corinne Alphen positively lights up the screen as fiery rock singer Joan, Jayne Modean is a sweet treat as endearing cutie Susie, plus there are nifty contributions by Daniel Faraldo as hip motel clerk Eesh, Richard B. Schull as smarmy jerk Eddie, Jessica James as cool motel owner Geri, and Donald Symington as Nelson's stern, corrupt killjoy politician dad Ernest Dalby. The adorable Sheila Kennedy has a regrettably minor role as the spunky Carla, but at least she goes topless during the wet t-shirt contest. Steven Poster's bright cinematography offers lots of picturesque shots of the sunny seaside Florida locations. Harry Manfredini's funky-boppin' score hits the groovy spot. Sure, this film is complete dopey fluff, but it's got a snappy pace and giddy quality to it which in turn makes it a total delightfully brainless blast from the dynamic 80's past.