Roger Corman gives us this high school comedy about students just trying to rock when the new principal is a tight ass who hates anything with a beat. Naturally, she has to hate The Ramones!

If you didn't already know it, The Ramones are great. Apparently, they weren't the first choice for the band in this movie though. They wanted Todd Rundgren, Cheap Trick, Devo, Van Halen.. fuck it. Let's just use The Ramones!

So our main character is P.J. Soles and she's pretty hot in this movie. She's a Ramones super fan (apparently not before starring in this movie though) and strives to give her new song to the band, "Rock and Roll High School". There are some other side plots in the movie, including one where Clint Howard gives a guy dating advice. That's pretty laughable when you think about it.

During the 21-day shoot, Dee Dee Ramone got arrested for fighting with a roadie, overdosed in jail, and wound up in Cedars Sinai Hospital with a $3,000 medical bill.

Despite playing a high school student, P.J. Soles was 28 when the movie was filmed, and was actually older than three of the four members of the Ramones.

The Ramones are actually kinda ugly, too. Fortunately, this movie doesn't care, much like the attitudes of The Ramones themselves. There's no glue-sniffing in this PG movie, but there is cocaine!

When all is said and done, the movie is entertaining enough, but I feel like I'm going to forget most of it by tomorrow, and that's not because I've been drinking all day.