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The Strongest Man in the World By Kimberly Heinrichs
Once again Dexter Riley (a young Kurt Russell) and his science lab pals
astound and confound Medfield College's head dean when their latest
concoction might either save the struggling institution from bankruptcy or
get the top-level staff fired. In this third of the four Medfield films,
Riley accidentally ingests a vitamin compound that gives him superhuman
strength, leading to sponsorship by a cereal company and possible defeat
of a rival university in a weightlifting contest. Although today
Medfield's team would be disqualified for drug use, in this pre-steroid
scandal picture it's the scheming adults who are the bad guys. Thanks to a
Medfield Board of Directors traitor (an amusingly villainous Dick
Van Patten), the competing sponsor sends a couple of bungling
burglars (one played by Cesar Romero) to steal the formula. Kidnapping,
hypnosis, and a down-to-the-wire weightlifting finale mark this 92-minute,
G-rated film, which is short on subtlety but long on wholesomeness. Kids
as young as 4 will enjoy the weightlifting and burglary antics, but the
school politics and corporate warfare subplots will lose them temporarily.
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