I Watch Films: My Science Project
Needing to provide a science project to graduate, Michael, who loves only cars, goes to take a look in the old airplane graveyard, only to stumble on a secret cellar where they stored bits of an alien spacecraft. He finds a thingy with a plasma globe, it leeches power from everything around it and messes with time and space. Eventually it disappears the science teacher.
There’s some other stuff going on; he’s dumped by his girlfriend (who returns the mink steering wheel he gave her) so his partner in the thingy-adventures is Ellie, who’s trying to put together the school yearbook, also needs a date for prom. His friend Vince, who is cool (?) and from New Jersey (? – those are his character traits) joins in, is in fact the one whose boombox is the first power source.
After a lot of nonsense and blowing up the powerlines to prevent it from stealing yet more power, we get to the final, fun section of the film as the school is transformed into a zany multi-time-period zone of danger. There are soldiers in Vietnam, a T-Rex and post-apocalyptic mutants, also Michael and Vince’s rivals. The whole thing is wacky nonsense with one-note characters, and if that’s what you want then I guess good, but it certainly doesn’t live up to the “Ghostbusters meets Back To The Future” tagline they tried to hang on it.
Watch This: An 80s science fiction teen comedy that relies
more on hijinks, misunderstanding and bad history than gross stuff (or boobs)
Don’t Watch This: If you want it to make any sense, or be
consistently entertaining and funny
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