Review of Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986) by Tane P — 29 Dec 2009

Very funny mid 80s screwball flick. No sequels thank god, the portagonist goes to Buster Burger university to learn how to be a manager, and some of the other characters, include the oversexed Latino guy, a nun, a nerdy guy, a camp black soul singer called Magnetto Jones and a nerdy fat guy called Jerome Prestopotnik (Who bears a strange resemblance to Leslie Barbara from the first Police Academy movie).

Our protagonist himself is just doing it for the money. The owner is a senile old man with a designer wife which the oversexed hispanic guy falls in love with, and the trainer is a military type who give sthem all a hard time.

After passing their course they have to run a buster burger restaurant and they are set up with a biker group trashing the restaurant, an eating club ordering 75 burgers each and a group of African American cops who trash it further after racist taunts from the trainer.

Somehow it all back fires and they all graduate with the people who trashed the restaurant urging them on. Full of hilarious one liners like "Who ordered the 60 busterburgers? "That fat mxxxxxfxxxer over there ordered 72, them giggly twin mxxxxxfxxxers ordered 24 each and the skinny pin head mxxxxxfxxxer ordered 72.

The whole group tell a small girl who picks up a box to "Put those cookies down motherfxxker". And then theres the obsession with cow anatomies and the science of making the perfect busterburger taken to extremes.

A series of laughs worth watching here. Magnetto becomes the class valedectorian and launches into a new "Busterburger song" for the movie to end on.