• R, 1 hr. 31 min.
  • Comedy
  • Directed By:
    Bud S. Smith
    In Theaters:
    Mar 25, 1988 Wide
    On DVD:
    Aug 5, 2003
  • Orion Home Video

Opening

73% World War Z Jun 21
78% Monsters University Jun 21
61% The Bling Ring Jun 21
60% Maniac Jun 21
100% A Hijacking Jun 21
66% Unfinished Song Jun 21
100% The Attack Jun 21
—— The Haunting of Helena Jun 21

Top Box Office

56% Man of Steel $116.6M
85% This Is the End $20.7M
50% Now You See Me $11.0M
71% Fast & Furious 6 $9.6M
38% The Purge $8.3M
34% The Internship $7.1M
62% Epic $6.3M
87% Star Trek Into Darkness $6.3M
11% After Earth $4.1M
78% Iron Man 3 $3.0M

Coming Soon

—— How To Make Money Selling Drugs Jun 26
—— White House Down Jun 28
—— The Heat Jun 28
56% I'm So Excited! Jun 28

Johnny Be Good Reviews

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

Johnny be worthless.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Original Score: 0/4

February 27, 2008
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

Reflects the mentality of great swaths of artless, ignorant slobs.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Original Score: 0/4

August 7, 2007
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

| Original Score: 2/5

August 20, 2005
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)

| Original Score: 0/5

November 18, 2004
Ryan Cracknell
Apollo Guide

It's not funny, it tells a surface story and nothing more, and there's no sense of effort to correct any of these deficiencies.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Original Score: 40/100

August 22, 2004
Rebecca Murray
About.com

| Original Score: 2/5

May 13, 2004
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

| Original Score: 2/5

April 3, 2004
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

It's bad, even by 80's standards.

| Original Score: 1/5

July 30, 2003
Caryn James
New York Times
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Two of the screenwriters, Steve Zacharias and Jeff Buhai, also wrote Revenge of the Nerds, so it's not surprising that they're more interested in tame teen-age fantasies than in social satire.

Full Review Source: New York Times | Original Score: 2/5

May 20, 2003
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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The people who made this movie should be ashamed of themselves.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Original Score: 0.5/4

January 1, 2000
Hal Hinson
Washington Post
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If Chuck Berry were dead, he'd be spinning in his grave.

Full Review Source: Washington Post

January 1, 2000
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