Bad Medicine

The setting is fanciful, but everything else is a fantastic portrait of the administration, students, and faculty at UAG. UAG has better facilities, and much more than one cadaver. However, the school is owned by a single family, and the administration does exercise dictatorial power over students. Many of the characters in this movie you will meet your first week of school at UAG.

Bring this movie with you, it has considerable black market value in Guadalajara!


Bad Medicine   February 20, 2005
John T. Ehrhart (Katy, TX USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

This movie was so hilarious! I never saw it in the movie theater I don't believe. WAIT A SECOND! On second thought, I DID SEE IT in a movie theater. I thought it was funny though. The part where Guttenburg, Armstrong and the other intern, needed a cadaver (not sure on the spelling) for a grade, and they took a body from the morgue who the Central American police shot and killed. The man turned out to be a cousin of a taxi driver and it scares the bejesus out of him. And the other part is when Guttenburg and the doctor school secretary made out in the limousine and Gilbert Gottfried was looking at his reflection on the tinted windows but didn't see what was going on in the limo. Anyway, I hope that 20th Century Fox puts this out on DVD cause it is an absolute CLASSIC!!! See if you see in there Bill Macy (MAUDE) in there he plays the role of Jeffrey's father. Jeffrey played by Police Academy's Steve Guttenburg.


Just like UAG - Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara   August 23, 2006
The prophet's voice (USA, North America)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

Oh God, as a graduate of UAG I should say that this movies is nothing like the movie but I can't lie. The Madera's own the med. school.. the Leano's own the med. school. The Dean does not care about students.... Dean Villalobos and Martinez Sandoval dont care about the students. The infrastructure is a bit outdated.... you guessed it!! UAG's buildings are as old as Fenway without any upgrades. Oh yeah, the pride and joy of the institution is the infamous PMC program: "Programa Medicina en Comunidad", just like in the film!!!! It is a riot! If you plan to go to UAG you must watch this film. If you get a hold of it, bring it down to Guadalajara so you can laugh.


If you like underground cult films like Real Genius-buy this   July 11, 2000
Mark A. Rothenberg (Irvine, California)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

This film is hysterical. It has a plethora of quotable lines and is a great movie to watch on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Alan Alda plays a sociopathic borderline dictator of a Dean of a Bannanna Republic Med School. Guttenberg doesnt...ruin the movie. All in all, if you like Real Genius and Spies Like Us, this movie will keep you on the floor laughing.


A very funny comedy; even though it's far from reality   November 4, 1999
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

For all you young students who are planning your careers in the medical field, this film should serve as a warning to you. This is one extremely tough field to get into and when you're there, it takes an awful lot of determination and self-discipline to stay there and succeed. In reality, schools like the one in this film simply don't exist. This film is funny and enjoyable if you just put all sense of reality aside for about an hour and a half.