AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

keelhaul-80856 Why is this show still shown in re-runs? Why is it such a classic? The theme song and laughing at a young Travolta is about the only thing memorable. The teacher looks like Alex Trebek on crack, most of the show takes place in a claustrophobic classroom with corny jokes. I guess this was cute and iconic at the time, but even my parents' generation often remarks on how mediocre and lame it was, in reality. I guess it is just a nostalgic thing for older viewers. Nothing about it is really that funny. It is more annoying and sleep-inducing than anything else. I've watched several episodes, and I don't have one memorable thing besides that to tell anyone.

imbluzclooby WBC was one of those 70's shows that was only viewed by my siblings and I when there was nothing better on. There are many things to loathe about this show: Corny jokes, slow moving plot, tiresome characters and a very drab inner city school backdrop that looked like your typical living nightmare for any teacher. School sucks enough as it is, so why would anyone want to subject themselves to watching it on TV for entertainment? I understand that comedy is often rooted in pain and that is where we derive comedy in general. But Welcome Back, Kotter brings the expression "Painful to watch" in a whole new level. It was also very negative in how it treated people. We weren't watching anything realistic here, just a very contrived and sophomoric representation of reality. And the results are uninspiring.I will say that it is memorable for a couple of reasons. First, it catapulted the career of John Travolta. Gabe Kaplan was a likable guy who seemed to skate through this depiction of a high school teacher who has good intentions while having a bug to be an amateur comedian. Some people harshly criticize the fifth Sweathog from the south during the final season. I actually thought he brought some fun originality to this progressively stale and weary Motley Crew. But where I derive meaning from this lousy program was the message in the theme song. The idea of a man returning to his Alma Mater as a teacher is both depressing yet endearing. The hopeless feeling one gets when they abandoned their dreams only to be annoyed and aggravated by an unpleasant and immature group of punks is not really a great recipe for fun.

drystyx This could well be the worst TV series ever made, and that's a mouthful.Gabe Kaplan isn't at fault. It's poor writing. He is just a enger in a wreck. He plays a teacher of some students. For some reason, only three or four students ever say anything. And they are stereotypes even for TV.None of them ever evoke any empathy or sympathy. They aren't identifiable, and if ever a show needed a laugh track, this one does, because it is supposed to be a comedy, but there is no way to know when you are supposed to laugh without a guide.One of th students is a little weak boy that all of the others can beat up on, and most of the show revolves around dehumanizing him. One wonders when they'll just send him to a concentration cam and be done with it.Just nothing at all to like about this garbage.

calvinnme Let's face it, "Welcome Back Kotter" was the real "That 70's Show" - the inner city urban version. I can't the last time I even saw this show in syndication on channels such as Nick at Nite that once specialized in dusting off old sitcoms unseen for years. The comic premise of the show is that Gabe Kotter, newly graduated from college and certified to teach, has returned to teach the same remedial class of high school misfits of which he was a member ten years earlier. Vice Principal Woodman, who was the object of Gabe's torments and jokes ten years earlier, is still employed at the high school and gives Gabe this job as the ultimate irony and revenge for what Gabe had put him through. Of course, this show is sugar-coated compared to the real problems and issues of a New York City public school in a poor neighborhood, but it had to be since this was a sitcom, not a drama. The show had a great cast playing great characters - there was Horshack, the class nerd with the nasal laugh; Barbarino, the cool maverick who was a little slow on the uptake; Epstein with the mixed Latino/Jewish heritage and the great excused absence notes signed by "Epstein's mother", and last but not least, Washington. There was a great common enemy in Mr. Woodman, who you couldn't help but feel a little sorry for. Finally, the show had a great location in Brooklyn and a memorable theme song by John Sebastian that you are much more likely to hear today than see the show from whence it came. For three wonderful seasons from 1975 to 1978 it was a comedy classic. But, alas, all things must come to an end.After John Travolta starred in the back-to-back hits of "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease", he would hardly return anyone's phone calls, much less show up for work on a regular basis. Thus the fourth season not only jumped the shark, it pretty much made it over the Gulf of Mexico. What was really going on behind the scenes in 1978, if I correctly, was a bruising battle of the egos catalyzed by Travolta's new-found superstar status. To compensate for all the turmoil and in-fighting among the cast, Kotter is made vice-principal to explain all of Gabe Kaplan's absences, then the show added Stephen Shortridge as an entirely inadequate placeholder for Travolta. The final straw was when the show seemed to be endorsing the marriage of two high-schoolers - Horshack and Mary - and then Horshack began drinking heavily afterward.The irony is that the stardom status for everyone involved instantaneously evaporated after the show that their egos destroyed was canceled in 1979. The only one to ever recover their stardom was Travolta, and then it took ten years before he could even land a job playing straight man to a talking baby in "Look Who's Talking". I hate to sound bitter, but it's hard not to be considering what a great show it was during the first three seasons of its all too-brief four season run.