![]() ![]() Lisa emerges from a smoky room, through a door that bulges like a scary portal in Poltergeist. The boys even hook electrodes onto a toy doll as part of the process. The graphics on their computer monitor play like a carnival ride. Gary and Wyatt ‘create’ Lisa in a flurry of charming silly-science, using an ’80s PC that still uses big floppy discs. The crude (but innocent) humor flies fast and thick in John Hughes’ featherweight comedy, which is too carefree to waste time with pseudo-scientific baloney. The problem is that Deb and Hilly (Suzanne Snyder & Judie Aronson) are already attached to Ian and Max … who of course want to make a play for the drop-dead gorgeous Lisa. Of course, what the boys really need is to form relationships with girls their own age. It’s all a plan to make them bloom from their state of cringing cowardice. She gets them drunk in an adult club and sets up a wild party that’s invaded by all manner of supernatural phenomena. Although the compliant Lisa is ready for anything, when confronted by the boys’ adolescent impotence, she takes it upon herself to skip the direct sex and liberate them from the purgatory of uncool- ness. Inspired by a TV airing of the original Frankenstein, the boys hack into a defense computer and use its might to create a living sex doll of their own, which they name Lisa (Kelly LeBrock). Wyatt is also cruelly treated by his brutish older brother Chet (Bill Paxton). Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are walking disasters in high school, uncool rejects humiliated by the girls and victimized by the boys, especially self-styled ladykillers Ian and Max (Robert Downey & Robert Rusler). Beautifully directed and performed, the show now reads as mainstream 80’s fun. ![]() Our essentially sweet boys then learn more John Hughes life lessons. Surely all manner of X-rated tomfoolery could result, but, ah, no, this is a responsible wacky comedy that settles for a low-flow quotient of gnarly bathroom, tit & wanker jokes. Two geeky male teens, sub-species nerdus loserus, solve their no- social life and no- sex issues by using a computer to create their own perfect fantasy woman. Having scored with two lively, sentimental movies about upper middle-class kids learning life lessons, etc., John Hughes took his teen angst issues into goofball territory, with a supremely silly mix of wish fulfillment fantasy and slapstick irreverence. GainesĬoming smack in the middle of the 1980s, Weird Science is held up as prime nostalgia for a decade of youth comedies. ![]() ![]() Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Rusler.įilm Editor: Chris Lebenzon, Scott Wallace, Mark Warnerįrom a comic book by Al Feldstein and William M. It all begins as a bad arrested-development joke, but Hughes’ audaciousness and fine production values make this a nostalgic favorite for folk that miss their (ugh) 1980s memories.ġ985 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 94 min. The idea is of course transformed into a basically benign coming-of age story … with the underlying message that we’d not at all mind if Ms. Woo Hoo! We’re girl-starved teen nerds, and we’re cooking up our own living sex toy with our home computers! John Hughes turns an infantile idea into one of his not-bad teen angst comedies, as Kelly LeBrock materializes to fulfill their wildest dreams. ![]()
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