Truly rank addition to the rebellious-kids-on-campus genre. Buzz Kulik, usually a solid director with a tight sense of pacing, does uncharacteristically sloppy and stilted work here, and the film (distributed by United Artists!) looks like an amateur project. William Shatner, in natty suits and ties (and neat little streaks in his hair), plays high school teacher to wealthy, beach front-living students who appear to have the same problems as every other teenager: stifled under the thumb of strict, demanding parents, they are overly eager to express their opinions without regard for the consequences. While planning for an anonymous survey about life's generalities, teacher Shatner is prompted by the kids into adding 'sex' to the list of topics; once this leaks out to the PTA moms, however, Shatner's job is on the line. These kids (some of whom look old enough to be on the faculty, including a hardened, dead-eyed Billy Gray) are some of the most polite teen rebels of the '60s. They take a united stand on refusing to conform to the school's rules, but when their unofficial leader tells them what to do, they move like sheep. Nobody is shown to have independent ideas or thoughts--they're like left-overs from the Body Snatchers. They also clam up whenever principal Edward Platt barges into the classroom. Some familiar faces in the cast hardly make the picture watchable; it doesn't seem to represent any era, much less its own. The idea of a teen "sex survey" causing an uproar amongst prudish parents is still relevant today (rather sadly), but what's done with the material here is the real crime. Everything is trivialized, sterilized, and neutered. * from ****