SnoopyStyle It's Leslie Hindenberg (Michelle Meyrink)'s senior year. Melanie (Lisa Langlois) is her best friend. Her dad (Christopher Lloyd) is a coach at school and he threatens anyone who touches his daughter. Liz Sampson (Colleen Camp) is the weird new girl. Mr. Porter (Ernie Hudson) is the new principal. Alan Holt (Cameron Dye) is obsessed with sex and Liz seems to be obsessed with him. Leslie is afraid her mole is cancerous and mistakes her doctor's overheard comment. She thinks she has 3 months to live and vows to try sex.There are no laughs. It's high on the cheese factor. This is weak work from director Martha Coolidge. The production is bad and this suffers when compared to the start of a string of great John Hughes teen movies. I love Meyrink but her character doesn't have much to offer. The boys are even worst with Cameron Dye offering even less. I'm willing to live with twentysomethings passing themselves off as teenagers but they are horrible at it. It's 'Animal House' transfered to high school. It's almost bad enough to be camp. It's possible to watch this in that way.

Totallyrad80 I remember checking out this movie because I remember Martha Coolidge's first film ("Valley Girl") and the recruits that she brought in for this film and this time having Cameron Dye and Michelle Meyrink (who were supporting players in "Valley Girl") really worked out well as leads (post "Valley Girl"). But the one that was really great was Colleen Camp in her role going undercover as a narc. I was glad Martha had casted Heidi Holicker (as you really couldn't say she was a spoiler as Candy as she was as Stacey in "Valley Girl") but I wish her role was bigger as well as the girl who played her best friend (Allison played by future ER star Connie Marie Brazelton). But it was cool for the 80's dealing with Reaganomics and something I liked as a teen back then.

joseppi-2 If one sat down to watch a movie called "The Joy of Sex", you'd at least think there were some steamy sex sequences therein. Surprisingly, that is the main thing that's missing from the film. Look quick and you may catch one topless girl in a mob running by toward the end of the picture, the film's sole nude sequence. The sex scenes we do see are obscured from view half the time and most of which is left up to imagination. And surprisingly the film still bares an "R" rating, primarily for language and content. But what would be considered as the naughty sexual content in this film is no more risque that what I've seen in other PG and PG-13 rated films currently in the theater and in new release at the video store. Boy the times have changed. Suddenly in the late 90's and the new millennium we can almost get away with just about any innuendos these days.Not too many highlights in the film. The laughs are few and far between. The film features the attractive Colleen Camp who is squandered in this opportunity. She receives far little film time as an undercover cop masquerading as the new hot girl in class at the high school where the film is based. Robert Prescott ("Bachelor Party" and "Real Genius") has a few humorous moments as a class clown, but not enough. The only real bright spot of the film is Christopher Lloyd as Coach Hindenberg. Lloyd's deadpan delivery never fails to win a laugh or two, but Lloyd can't support what is an unremarkable cast and a less than average teen sex comedy. The film is also known as "National Lampoon's: The Joy of Sex." Save you money and time. Rent "Animal House" instead.

vallgirl Great teenage 80's flick. Very funny!! The title of the movie doesn't describe the movie. The movie has nothing to do with the book "The Joy Of Sex". I love those teenage 80's movies. I hadn't ever heard of this movie for the longest time. Before I saw it I wasn't expecting it to be that good. Once I saw it I thought it was fabulous and wondered why it was so underrated. It is now one of my most favorite 80's movies. I highly recommend that you see it!!