Think of Hamburger: The Motion Picture as the typical, artery- clogging burger purchased from any local fast food dine-in. It's sinfully delicious without a trace of nutritional value and leaves you in a perpetual state of self-loathing as you rub your bloated belly shortly after consumption. Hamburger: The Motion Picture is junk food for the eyes and the mind. This is a shamelessly enjoyable B-movie from the 80s which will tickle the jovial 12-school-boy inside any grown man. There is a charming little aspect about this film that transcends the gross out humor and slip-shod story which captures and keeps your attention for the sole purpose of seeing what level of offensiveness it set out to achieve. Once the end credits are rolling, you're asking yourself what you just wasted 90 minutes of your life on. You could have spent that time learning a foreign language or reading a book or calling family or a number things which hold more productivity than watching a movie about hamburgers, but you can't stop chuckling at the idiocy which this movie builds its foundation upon.
McDonalds has what is called a hamburger university in Oak Brook, Illinois where a large number of students attend each year to achieve management level positions in McDonalds restaurants across the nation. The existence of this university is the punchline of Hamburger: The Motion Picture which gleefully twists and satirizes it into perverted tale of stringent fast food management training, crude sexual exploits and explosive flatulence. Leigh McCloskey plays Russell Proco, a sex-addict who has been expelled from several colleges due to his insatiable sexual appetite much to the chagrin of his frustrated parents. His trust fund is withheld until he achieves a college level degree and while mulling over his dilemma at a local Busterburger he discovers he can earn a degree at a hamburger college thus unfreezing his trust fund account. From here, we cut to Busterburger University where hormones run high and ambitions run low. We're introduced to an assorted collection of future Busterburger University alumnus including a fat guy who shocks himself to keep from eating too much, a Columbian nymphomaniac, a black funk singer and a nun. We follow this group through a disorganized set of misadventures and their learning experiences which involve the art of creating the perfect hamburger, a twisted set of principles on customer service and an inauspicious experience running an actual Busterburger Restaurant.
A movie such as this isn't going to succeed based merely on acting, but a special mention must go to former Chicago Bears linebacker, Dick Butkus, who hilariously portrays Busterburger University's overly frustrated drill sergeant and trainer, Drootin, who enjoys nothing more than entrapping his trainees into plastic pickle "prison boxes" and hosing them down with the special sauce. Charles Tyner as CEO Lyman Bunk also brings in the belly-laughs as he teaches his class of future burger flippers how to refuse service to "assholes" and ordering "mother-f*ckers" to put the cookies back where they belong. Randi Brooks also does well with what she is given as the wife of Lyman Bunk who gets a little too close to one of the students culminating in a disturbingly steamy scene under the table at a Chinese restaurant.
This film is a glorious little train-wreck from its cheesy opening presenting various scenes of common folk consuming burgers set to its cheesier exclusive jingle "Hamburgers for America" to its utterly tasteless finale where the Busterburger University graduates complete the practical section of their study running a Busterburger restaurant. All of the content between isn't guaranteed to raise points on your IQ score, but it's funny in a deranged and perverted sort of way. Of everything in this film, the climax of the film where we view the prospective Busterburger University graduates working a Busterburger restaurant holds the most laughs. Drootin sabotages our promising, future burger flippers by directing a tour of overweight extreme eaters, vicious bikers and slighted African American policemen who all proceed to utterly destroy the restaurant. A memorable scene, one that is sure to go down in annals of great cinema, involves the injection of a laxative into a milkshake given to all of the overweight diners which results in a flatulence so prodigious it blows up the bathroom. Yes and that is one of the less offensive scenes. The humor is politically incorrect, chauvinist and juvenile, but absolutely hilarious in all of its cringe-worthy badness.
In all, Hamburger: The Motion Picture is a trashy little film that flew under the radar in the 80s. It's a clever spoof with a strange sense of juvenile and politically incorrect humor that will make you cringe while you chuckle at its depravity.
McDonalds has what is called a hamburger university in Oak Brook, Illinois where a large number of students attend each year to achieve management level positions in McDonalds restaurants across the nation. The existence of this university is the punchline of Hamburger: The Motion Picture which gleefully twists and satirizes it into perverted tale of stringent fast food management training, crude sexual exploits and explosive flatulence. Leigh McCloskey plays Russell Proco, a sex-addict who has been expelled from several colleges due to his insatiable sexual appetite much to the chagrin of his frustrated parents. His trust fund is withheld until he achieves a college level degree and while mulling over his dilemma at a local Busterburger he discovers he can earn a degree at a hamburger college thus unfreezing his trust fund account. From here, we cut to Busterburger University where hormones run high and ambitions run low. We're introduced to an assorted collection of future Busterburger University alumnus including a fat guy who shocks himself to keep from eating too much, a Columbian nymphomaniac, a black funk singer and a nun. We follow this group through a disorganized set of misadventures and their learning experiences which involve the art of creating the perfect hamburger, a twisted set of principles on customer service and an inauspicious experience running an actual Busterburger Restaurant.
A movie such as this isn't going to succeed based merely on acting, but a special mention must go to former Chicago Bears linebacker, Dick Butkus, who hilariously portrays Busterburger University's overly frustrated drill sergeant and trainer, Drootin, who enjoys nothing more than entrapping his trainees into plastic pickle "prison boxes" and hosing them down with the special sauce. Charles Tyner as CEO Lyman Bunk also brings in the belly-laughs as he teaches his class of future burger flippers how to refuse service to "assholes" and ordering "mother-f*ckers" to put the cookies back where they belong. Randi Brooks also does well with what she is given as the wife of Lyman Bunk who gets a little too close to one of the students culminating in a disturbingly steamy scene under the table at a Chinese restaurant.
This film is a glorious little train-wreck from its cheesy opening presenting various scenes of common folk consuming burgers set to its cheesier exclusive jingle "Hamburgers for America" to its utterly tasteless finale where the Busterburger University graduates complete the practical section of their study running a Busterburger restaurant. All of the content between isn't guaranteed to raise points on your IQ score, but it's funny in a deranged and perverted sort of way. Of everything in this film, the climax of the film where we view the prospective Busterburger University graduates working a Busterburger restaurant holds the most laughs. Drootin sabotages our promising, future burger flippers by directing a tour of overweight extreme eaters, vicious bikers and slighted African American policemen who all proceed to utterly destroy the restaurant. A memorable scene, one that is sure to go down in annals of great cinema, involves the injection of a laxative into a milkshake given to all of the overweight diners which results in a flatulence so prodigious it blows up the bathroom. Yes and that is one of the less offensive scenes. The humor is politically incorrect, chauvinist and juvenile, but absolutely hilarious in all of its cringe-worthy badness.
In all, Hamburger: The Motion Picture is a trashy little film that flew under the radar in the 80s. It's a clever spoof with a strange sense of juvenile and politically incorrect humor that will make you cringe while you chuckle at its depravity.