**Part of my 2022 Comedy Thursdays**

I rewatched Weird Science today to see if I was just in a bad mood when I watched it last time. I distinctly remember it being better than what I experienced last time, so...I took out the Arrow Blu-ray release to find out.

And...

I wasn't all that wrong the last time.

The story is still a mess, and it seems everything is there to facilitate a teenager's wet dream, and Kelly LeBrock is certainly a wet dream. I had a serious crush on her way back then, both from this and The Woman in Red, and that might have skewed my memories of Weird Science.

It's not as bad as I thought last time, but there's still a lot of "wrong" with Weird Science. I wouldn't really bother with it, unless you want your Kelly LeBrock fix...


Old review below with a rating of 4
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I distinctly remember Wierd Science being much better than this.

This one did NOT age well. This is the first time I rewatch this in ages. The last time was probably all the way back in the 80s. The whole movie is just a mess. Nothing makes sense at all. No story to speak of and the whole thing gets crazier and crazier until the whole thing blows up into something no man can make sense of...except maybe John Hughes.

If you haven't seen it...stay away. If you have...for gods sake...don't watch it again.

A whole extra star for Kelly LeBrock. Hot as hell in this one...

A pair of hapless teenage geeks create their dream woman with the aid of a home computer and proceed to turn their social standing upside down. Not a high point for John Hughes, who directed this paper-thin fever dream of a slapstick comedy after writing the screenplay in just two days. Hughes would become known for quick penmanship later in his career - he'd write Ferris Bueller in roughly the same amount of time - but in this case that efficiency leads in an imaginative premise that never really grows to maturity.

Anthony Michael Hall, in something of a leading role after breakout performances in National Lampoon's Vacation and Sixteen Candles, is responsible for a lot of what works about the finished product. His comic timing is excellent, even in the most absurd situations (of which there are many). Hall really soars in one drunken scene, spilling his guts and making unlikely friends with the regulars in a seedy ghetto jazz bar, but that's an early climax and the film struggles to outdo it on the home stretch.

Props and gimmicks pad out the rest of the ride, along with a generous dose of fresh, Hughsian, era-defining new wave cuts. Cheap and easy, but invariably charming and authentically funny; I've burnt weeknights with worse films.