Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 11
Hardly in the same league as John Hughes' other teen movies, the resolutely goofy Weird Science nonetheless gets some laughs via its ridiculous premise and enjoyable performances.
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Critic Reviews: 3
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Hardly in the same league as John Hughes' other teen movies, the resolutely goofy Weird Science nonetheless gets some laughs via its ridiculous premise and enjoyable performances.
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John Hughes's third directorial effort, Weird Science, follows in the tradition of his previous teen-centered films, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith play the wannabe hipster Gary and his nebbish weak-willed best friend, Wyatt, a pair of high-school geeks who are hapless with members of the opposite sex. Using Wyatt's computer, they create what they believe is the ideal woman. A lightning storm brings that woman to life, and she takes the form
Aug 2, 1985 Wide
Oct 10, 2000
Universal Pictures
All Critics (26) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (11) | DVD (9)
Weird Science veers off into a typical coming-of-age saga without exploring any of the psychological territory it lightly sails over in the early going.
Even 14-year-old boys may find it heavy sledding.
Weird Science combines two great traditions in popular entertainment: Inflamed male teenage fantasies and Frankenstein's monster.
Bouncy and charming, anchored by Hall's finest comic turn for the director and LeBrock's disarmingly easygoing turn as a self-satisfied sex goddess.
Guilty-pleasure '80s horny-geek sci-fi sex comedy.
Throw in an infectious Oingo Boingo title tune, LeBrock in the finest fashions the Reagan-era could offer, and intoxicated tales of large-chested, knee-happy ex-girlfriends, and you have yourself one delectable adolescent comedy.
Le Brock plays her character with a sense of style and wit, something the rest of Weird Science largely lacks.
A mildly dirty reworking of love, popularity and wild times, this is John Hughes' scrappiest film to date, but it redeems its tastelessness and stupidity by being fairly funny most of the time.
Weird Science is an odd mix of risqué shenanigans, puerile pranks and dubious gender politics. It also happens to be very funny.
This is ordinary stuff that's aged about as well as Mitchell-Smith's clunky computer.
Feels like something that Hughes slapped together over the course of one weed-filled weekend. It's a novelty flick, but a fairly funny one ... for the most part.
All those who pine about John Hughes not making teen movies any more should be forced to watch this one again.
Explores some playful male adolescent fantasies.
Amusing teen trifle on its own merits.
Guilty pleasure classic. Anthony Michael Hall's character's drunken rambles hold a shining place in the pop culture hall of fame.
...hormonally driven juvenile dribble.
It's great, if you're 13, and living in the 80s, and have a crush on Kelly Le Brock.
A funny and remarkable comedy. Very adolescent level, but still a good entertainment. Fresh.
February 1, 2012Super Reviewer
Weird Science is yet another solid John Hughes film. Weird Science is a well done teen comedy, one that every teen can relate to. The humor is funny, and quite original. John Hughes definitely knew how to create effective humor in his films, and Weird Science is yet another solid comedy. Hughes' script is original,
September 26, 2011
Super Reviewer
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