Its a little slapstick, but very good. Not perfect acting, but great movie. I have seen the Theater version PG-13, and the Video Rated R version. The theater one is just a cut scenes of the rated R version. It is about a high school quarterback that is very popular, and excellent at playing football in high school. He gets swamped of college recruiters trying to recruit him to play for them. It only shows him going to two colleges though.While he is ditching his high school coach of visiting the colleges that the coach wants to be hired on as a coach for that college, Johnny is visiting other colleges. Johnny finds out that the coach made a deal with a college without his knowledge, and Johnny gets back at him. I say people that don't like this are either younger than the time that it was release or old, and hate football movies. Either way why did you rent or buy it then if you don't like those kind of movies? It is your fault, not anyone else.I say watch this movie, but if your in those categories above said, then look elsewhere.

A catatonic-ally awful jock-ball pic form the late 80s seems to have been made as a vanity project by some BOOGIE NIGHTS style producers clearly in love with the cute twink looks of Anthiony Michael Hall. He is very desired apparently but all his charm and HOME ALONE star style looks were lost on me. JBG also stars the gorgeous Uma Thurman in a practice role to get a casting reel together, and the great Robert Downey Jnr scoring some easy money before becoming less than zero for a few years. Even Meg Tilly appears for a few squawks. The same three scriptwriters are the three producers and I would bet any money you like there was three big posters of AMH in each of their studio lockers. JBG is terrible, an embarrassment and a fawning leer at a teen actor disguised as a footy comedy. No wonder Orion Pictures went broke. It looks like a subterfuge gay movie pretending to be a mid-west college comedy. Perhaps a gay remake would be better. It would have to be.

This movie was made to be a comedy and not some kind of great documentary. If you didn't play quarterback in high school then you might not like this movie or understand it. Soundtrack was great and Paul Gleason as the coach is flat out the best high school football coach ever in a movie period! His pregame speech before the state championship game at the beginning of the movie is classic. It ranks just ahead of John Goodman in Revenge of the Nerds. Watch this classic over and over again and remember how unimportant high school football coaches really are in life! There are way worse movies out there than Johnny Be Good! This movie is not even close to being as cheesy as Varsity Blues, even though I quite enjoyed that movie as well. Obviously neither one of these movies are going to win an Oscar, but not all movies are made to win an Oscar. This movie is way better than Eyes Wide Shut and you could watch Johnny Be Good twice and go out to dinner before Eyes Wide Shut is over.

This was surprisingly rather decent actually, as it managed to amuse me throughout, with a watchable story, and solid performances in my opinion!. Yes it's your typical 80's cheese with all the clichés, but it's fun cheese, and Anthony Michael Hall performed very well actually as Johnnie Walker, plus It's got your typical awesome 80's music as well!. I actually had never heard of this film, until I came across it in the rental section, so I decided to rent it, it wasn't bad at all, and This was Uma's 1st major role, and she did alright, and was great eye candy, plus while the ending cheesy as hell, it put a smile on my face. OK so it has a mediocre script, so what it was still fairly enjoyable to watch, and Paul Gleason plays a great asshole as always, plus I don't have a foot fetish or anything but Uma's feet are gorgeous!. Put your brain at the door and you probably will get some amusement out of it, though it is predictable, and I thought all the characters were quite likable for the most part ,plus It's rather well made too for the most part. This is surprisingly rather decent actually, as it managed to amuse me throughout, with a watchable story, and solid performances in my opinion,worth the watch. The Direction is decent. Bud S. Smith does a decent job here with good camera work, and just keeping the film amusing throughout. The acting is surprisingly fun. Anthony Michael Hall is actually really good as Johnnie Walker and was the main reason I was able to enjoy this film,he was cocky, but charismatic and funny just the same, he also had good chemistry with Thurman and Downey.Jr, and was just very entertaining to watch, it's sad this guy's career never really took off because he's awesome!. Robert Downey Jr. is pretty funny here as the best friend, he shared good chemistry with hall, and seemed to be having fun his role, I liked him lots. Paul Gleason as always plays a great asshole, and here is no different. Uma Thurman is incredibly gorgeous and does just fine in her 1st major role, she was likable and had good chemistry with Hall!., just wish they gave her more screen time. Steve James is rather wasted here but was cool as always when on screen. Marshall Bell is amusing as the chief father. Jennifer Tilly is amusing in her role as Gleason's wife. Rest of the cast are OK. Overall worth the watch. **1/2 out of 5(almost ***)