Blu-ray Review – Hot Under the Collar

Director Richard Gabai found some success with 1991's "Virgin High," which represented his effort to participate in teen horndog cinema from the 1980s, looking to get his career going by playing with a safe subgenre. Unfortunately, the feature wasn't really up to the challenge of providing a raunchy good time, with Gabai more interested in silliness without the comedy chops to sell such craziness. However, profit is profit, and Gabai was sent right back into action for 1992's "Hot Under the Collar," which is a sequel/remake of "Virgin High," with most of the gang back to make trouble at a Catholic institution, revealing some strange hostility toward religion from Gabai. Still, mockery of Christianity is something in "Hot Under the Collar," which largely tries to skate by on nothing, with the helmer recycling some jokes from the previous endeavor, and his new material isn't effective at all, creating quite the patience-testing viewing experience. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com