My Science ProjectThe best science projects are the ones that evacuate the school for a week.The one in this sci-fi movie, however, may vacant the entire town.Combining a discarded piece of alien technology he stole from a military base with a car battery, high-school senior Michael (John Stockwell) and his friend Vince (Fisher Stevens) unwittingly open a portal to an alternate universe.When the unit goes on the fritz, its up to the boys to deactivate it before it displaces their community from its current time and space.But to do that they must return to their high school which is overrun with dangerous creatures from Earth's past and possible future.Introducing the idea of alternative realities decades before audiences were interested, this box- office bomb from 1985 is actually a hilarious hidden gem.Unfortunately, having educators from different eras in the same school will reignite the debate on corporal punishment.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Whenever I watch a terrible movie I always wonder why the cast and crew don't collectively yell "CUT!!!" and tell the director, "That makes no sense whatsoever, perhaps a bit of a rewrite is in order before we kill anymore braincells." The worst that could happen is they are fired, saving them the disgrace of being associated with such a disaster.This movie had reasonably good actors and a reasonably good budget which allowed for special effects reminiscent of "Ghost Busters", but the writing -- oh, the abysmal writing -- is so bad I have to question the intelligence of the script writer.Oftentimes a good director can still salvage something worthwhile with even the worst script to work with, but unfortunately in this case the director is the writer, and though he passably directs the movie, he clearly believes too strongly in the plausibility of his own script, forcing the cast to seriously deliver lines that should only be said with tongue in cheek.This movie would be an excellent candidate for a remake, missing only a bit of self-effacing humour to turn it into an excellent science fiction comedy. As it stands, I recommend only watching it if you are high. Very, very high.

Movies come in phases now and then where a bunch of movies with similar themes come out at about the same time. There was the underwater craze of 89 ("The Abyss", "Leviathan", and "Deepstar Six") and there was the body switch craze ("Big", "Vice Versa", and one with Dudley Moore). This movie came out during the comedy with a science twist. The other two movies that came out during this phase are "Real Genius" and "Weird Science". I liked this phase as I enjoyed all three movies quite a bit. This one was no exception as it combined humor and science fiction very well. This one has a couple of kids finding this strange device that I think ended up being some type of engine. Anyway when this thing gets hooked up with power and turns on all sorts of strange stuff starts happening. The thing seems to be able to move time or open portals. The end is great as the thing really goes berserk and it turns the school (I think it was the school) into a battle zone complete with different times. There is a dinosaur and mutants. All in all I am probably in the minority in liking this one, but I thought it was really good.

I just saw this on DVD for the first time in probably about 15 years. I used to love it when I was about 7 years old. I was amazed how many lines I remembered. Though often I didn't remember them from this movie. I just remembered them as lines my 2 brothers and I worked into our vernacular growing up. Especially the timeless "Make my semesta!!!" Besides all the great one liners, there were guns, explosions, gladiators, monster's from the future and past, a TREX, dynamite, and lot's of cool electricity effects. Everything a 7 year old boy would love. So I highly recommend it for a boy child. But for everyone else, only if you are bored or really like seeing cheesy 80's flicks.