Weird Science (1985)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Gary Wallace	Anthony Michael Hall
Wyatt Donnelly	Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Lisa	Kelly LeBrock
Chet Donnelly	Bill Paxton
Ian	Robert Downey Jr.	½
Max	Robert Rusler
Dino	John Kapelos	-

Review

Weird Science is definitely more weird than science, although the weirdness is weirdly unremarkable and uncreative in essence – the movie is like a crossbreed of a porn magazine and a superhero comic. John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) is the man behind it all. The great commenter on the generation gap between parents and teens and the roles we play in high school is sort of doing the same here, but the narrative is like an unfiltered train of thought from a masturbating 14-year-old bully victim. And yes, that's just as uncharming and inherently futile as it sounds. The film may have served some kind of narrow demand for a selected few back in the mid 1980s, but there's practically nothing transferable to anything of value in this silly, annoying sci-fi farce.