College dean Higgins (Joe Flynn) is in danger of losing his job for financial problems. He promises to raise more money in 30 days while using science Prof Quigley as a scapegoat.
The very generic sounding Medford College was the location for a few silly Disney comedy's starring Kurt Russell prior to his action star fame, and while they appealed to me as a child and even in early adult hood, now they are obvious and beyond total adult enjoyment. But what a cast it includes, as silly as these veterans get to be, they are names from the past that are a "Who's Who" of favorites.
I grew up with the Dexter Riley/Medfield college trio of films. Well kind of, I was in grade school with The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes came out and a freshman in High School when Now You See Him Now You Don't was released.
Worst of the trilogy.While 'The Strongest Man in the World' isn't anything atrocious, it most certainly fails to land on the same level as the two Robert Butler directed films.
I liked this movie.it's typical Disney silliness of that era,but it is fun and goofy,even absurd.
Enjoyed viewing this very comical film dealing with a group of college students performing various tests in their school laboratory classes. Kurt Russell, (Dexter Riley) tries out a chemical he discovered by mistake and pours it on his cereal which he gives to a cow and eats some of it himself.
The nadir for the Disney company of the 1970s, the cinematic equivalent of heartburn. Follow-up to 1972's "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" as well as another Disney hit, 1969's "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes", has Kurt Russell returning to role as campus kook Dexter Riley, here discovering a formula which gives him super strength.
Actually, the parts with Russell and Flynn are okay. The only actually good or inventive part of this flick is the Opening Credits in which a cartoon kid Dexter gets to live out what it'd be like to BE the Strongest Man in the World(catches King Kong after he falls from the Empire State Building, carries a large cruise ship,etc.
Kurt Russell for the third and last time plays Dexter Riley in the Disney Studio's film The Strongest Man In The World. I presume that he finally graduated from Medfield College and Dean Joe Flynn's life got a whole lot less interesting.
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