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"Demolition High" is ridiculous on many levels. However, it made me laugh a bunch. It seemed less like a fully thought-out movie and more like an exercise in putting actors into scenes. "Hey, we could have Corey shoot something out of a fire extinguisher!" "Yeah, and Melissa could walk menacingly up these stairs!" "Wait, we could use this circular saw for something..."

What surprised me was that somehow the movie managed to include the absurd as well as occasional moments when the actors and the writing made me care a little bit about the characters. I've always like Corey Haim, for whatever reason, and even though this whole film was a transparent vehicle for him to play a role (and not a very convincing role), I still rooted for "Lenny Slater". I also liked a few moments with some of the supporting cast, certainly more than the shaky script and acting would suggest.

Ultimately I give this a 5. It's laughable in many ways, but that was part of the fun. When Corey grabs a machine gun and runs *past* the injured Melissa, out of the room, down the hall, and *then* turns and fires randomly back at the room they squared off in, you can't take this seriously and you can't believe any of them did either. So just relax and enjoy the comedy, be it intentional or not.

P.S. I had to "fix" this review because my original summary of "LOL" was interpreted as shouting -- even when I added periods. :-)

Terrorists take over a high school and hold everyone hostage, but the one thing they didn't count on was troublemaker bad boy Corey Haim! Pretty much "Die Hard" in a high school with Haim as John McClane, Alan Thicke as Sgt. Powell, and Dick Van Patten as the government man. Brought to you by wildly prolific hack director Jim Wynorski, who has over a hundred directing credits, including some respectable trash, such as "Chopping Mall" and "Big Bad Mama II," but mostly less respectable trash (i.e. "The Witches of Breastwick" and "The Breastford Wives"). "Demolition High" is on the more respectable side since it has so many name actors, which besides Haim, Thicke, and Van Patten includes Gerrit Graham ("Used Cars" "Phantom of the Paradise") as the principal and familiar character actors George 'Buck' Flower ("Escape from New York" "They Live" "Maniac Cop") and Jeff Kober ("X-Files" "Tank Girl" "The First Power") as the lead terrorist. Dumb and unmemorable, but if you dug this film, there's a sequel "Demolition University" which I have not seen. Also, if Corey Feldman were on hand I would have added another 1/2 star. FUN FACT! "Demolition High" is referenced in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" by a character who is trying to get a part in a movie with Alan Thicke and Corey Haim.

The usual B movie slash and suspense. Plot is weak and full of holes - as are most of the dead terrorists after Corey Haim finishes with them.

Why not blow up the xxxxxx while it sits on the xxxx???????

Too easy.

The only thing worth watching this movie for is to see what a really bad movie is. The principal has a gun in his desk, a cop leaves his wounded partner in the middle of the street, and Corey Haim has a bowl cut. The only thing that would make this movie worse is if Corey Feldman was there also, but alas, I was left disappointed. I think they filmed this movie in the same school they used for Big Bully. I don't know whats worse, knowing that, or admitting to watching Big Bully. I did however learn that you can use a fire extinguisher to launch calligraphy pens like blow darts. I need to try that sometime. I give this movie a .053 out of 10, for the clever use of a fire extinguisher.

I caught this on TV one day when I was bored and waiting on some people. The movie kept my attention the entire time because it was so god awful. Corey Haim in a Bruce Willis "Die Hard" type role, Alan Thicke playing a hardened police chief, Dick Van Patten as a general, and a bunch of goofy terrorists who just happen to have as super model type as one of them. How can you go wrong? The special effects are lame, especially the guided missile that looks like a rocket model kit that you build at home only on a bigger scale.

This movie is terrible, make no mistake about it. But it's so terrible that you can't help but laugh and watch to see just how cheesy it's going to get. It's actually quite entertaining.

I have seen bad films before, some really bad, some really awful, then there's this dreck. Why do I pan it so? Simple, the acting. Hell, I've seen better acting in cheapo amateur porn than was done in this film. Corey, Corey, Corey, man what a shame. Hey kids, here's absolute proof of how drug abuse destroys one's abilities forever. I was half expecting him to begin howling at the moon like the wolfman. And the clichéd terrorist's. Wow a sexy hot terrorist babe with ultra blood lust; hmm sounds like the female killer freak from Die Hard 3.How Original!!! Awful film, awful story, awful acting. Was it entertaining? Well, yeah kinda but it was because I kept laughing at all the bad acting.Problem was, it wasn't supposed to be a comedy. This was hideous film-making at it's worst.

I really enjoyed this Die Hard in a school it was action packed funny & thrilling in that old school straight to video 90's kinda way or the type of little low budget gem you would find on t.v early hours of the morning & that's fine by me as it's very entertaining!!! Corey Haim R.I.P is very good in the lead role as Lenny the troubled new kid in school that's from the bronx so you know he can handle himself & he does so very well here taking on a group of terrorists who take over the school as a hideout from the cops & take everyone hostage. I grew up watching Corey Haim as i did Corey Feldman but i always thought Haim was the coolest since i saw him as sam in the absolute 80's CLASSIC The Lost Boys that i love & i saw him in stephen kings Silver Bullet werewolf film & the 90's fun Action adventure Prayer of the Rollerboys & that cemented Haim as a cool guy & teen hero of mine so it was awful & sad when i heard he passed R.I.P. HAIM was a very good intense actor & could carry a film like he did here & made a likable funny lead & gave a very frantic performance running around the school fighting bad guys!!! A good solid fun Action packed Thriller.

Over the years, I had heard that this Corey Haim movie had managed to build something of a cult. So when it was given a budget re-release recently in a DVD pack of eight movies, I decided to give it a look. After watching it, I honestly can't figure out why there are people who like it. Haim (an actor who has never impressed me) is a poor leading man, who seems bewildered throughout and delivers awful one-liners in a sleepy style. And with Jim Wynorski directing - a director who hasn't impressed me much more than Haim over the years - the entire enterprise feels really cheap and sluggish, from the obvious stock footage and threadbare production values to the utterly routine action. As the movie progresses, you will feel more tired with every passing minute. Yet as I said, the movie still has managed to build a cult, which might explain why a sequel (!) got released the following year. I guess you can never be sure what will make moviegoers happy.

Remember Toy Soldiers? Well, add Jim Wynorski and a low-budget and you get the picture. With more action, too. I'd call this Corey Haim's comeback performance. He's been in so many cheesy movies, we had all wondered. Demolition High is a fine action film in the mold of Die Hard...in school. School sucked, but this one seems better. And you got a whole slew of cameos. Some of the death scenes are inventive, too = 1. terrorist flying into band saw 2. lady terrorist getting stabbed by a ton of pencils shot from a fire extinguisher. My only complaint: there's like a total of 20 kids at this entire school. What, was Wynorski short of extras? Jim, throw me in part three, please!

Corey Haim is a tough kid supposedly from The Bronx when his new high school gets infiltrated by terrorists with some convoluted plan to shoot a missile at a local nuclear energy plant. Becomes Home Alone meets Die Hard as he uses his science knowledge to kill bad guys with improvised traps. Alan Thicke plays his policeman father with an I-couldn't-care-less attitude. Watch for the painful scene where the lead girl accidentally bangs her face into a van's interior...ouch.

I thought this movie was pretty good for Corey Haim. Whenever it's on I always have to watch because I love Corey Haim. It's the basic action flick with the occasional bad guys. I guess it's like a B version of Toy Soldiers. Overall it was pretty good.

Demolition High I thought was a good movie. It was entertaining and fun. It was fun to watch how Lenny Slatter picked apart every bad guy trying to take over the school. I was shocked that I liked this movie. It's very rare for me to like these kind of movies. I give this movie *** out of ****

To get started, I gotta say I love my one-line summary. It works on so many levels. OK, with that out of the way it's true that this low budget "Die Hard in a high school" is moderately amusing, but even moderately amusing is like finding gold as far as Jim Wynorski movies of the past decade or so go. Poor Jim's last really good film was "Hard to Die" and that was 1990. He made three films in 1996: This, "Vampirella", and "The Assault" so trust me when I say nowadays to paraphrase Meatloaf, ONE outta THREE for Mr. Wynorki ain't bad. Not to over-hype this movie as it's still not as good as his movies from his heyday of the '80's, just that I'm glad that this film isn't a total turd.

My Grade: C

Where I saw It: Showtime

This movie which rehashes the tired plot of terrorists taking over a high school, has some of the worst special effects I've seen outside an Ed Wood feature. Alan Thicke ("Growing Pains" Dad) uses profanity, so that's kind of funny. Wait! This isn't a comedy...never mind.