So, I don't understand why this film has so many high reviews. I don't understand how it became a "cult" film like the room, because this movie is just bad. Not amusing to watch bad, just bad. It's disjointedness and horrible acting lead it to be one of the worst movies I have EVER watched. Thank you, hosts of "How Did This Get Made", thank you.

I became interested in this movie because I was curious about movies that had a large discrepancy between the Critics and Audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Rad actually is the record-holder--84% of the audience liked the movie, but a whopping 0% of the critics. I was fascinated by what kind of movie could provoke this reaction--a very loyal fanbase and unanimous critical disapproval. It turned out that there were only 5 critics' reviews, so that was part of the reason. But the main issue was that this is simply a likable bad movie.Rad is actually a sports movie--BMX bike racing. The BMX circuit comes to a small town, and a local boy is very talented and dreams of winning the race. He meets a girl from the touring company and there is a romance (surprise) and he does battle with the evil favorite Rocky style. Talia Shire, who was Rocky's wife, plays the kid's mom and does the same sort of nervous mugging for the camera. Bart Conner, the Olympic gymnast, plays the villain in his first movie role. Bill Allen and Lori Loughlin from Family Ties play the hero and his love interest.Now, already, you can see the makings of a train wreck (or bike wreck?), but the fact of the matter is that the movie does a decent job of doing exactly what you would expect. Also, the BMX stunts are terrific, and some of the gags are pretty funny. It is easy to see how this movie could become a cult film (which it has) with rabidly loyal followers. Nonetheless, it really is pretty silly, so if you're into this sort of thing, great. Personally I think three stars is about right.

One of the paradigms of 1980s movies, I saw it when I was around 7 or 8 years old. This movie influenced me to become the man I am today, a professional bmx biker, sponsored by Mongoose.Shortly after seeing this film, I traded my banana cruiser in for a sweet new bmx . From that point on, I was terrorizing my neighbors with my rude paper route delivery antics. I had my route so well planned and executed that I too could ride a garbage trucks front-end loader over a fence.It took a few years, but at the 1997 X Games, I was approached by the then-head of the Mongoose racing team about potential sponsorship. When asked "Who do you race for?" I used the words of Cru, I took of my sunglasses, looked him in the eyes and said "I race for me". He knew I meant business, and signed me for a 5 year contract right there, handing me 5 million dollars in cash, on the spot.

Alright,I admit to adore this flick,I was 12 at the time,and ate,slept and rode BMX all day long,but after learning the lines to the script and martin and rl's routines life moved on until Rad proved its worth around the year 2000.I organized a Hip-Hop fest in my country back then,and on the final day of the 3 day stint,I met this really hot girl from Boston,who was doing some sociological research on the island,as her brother challenged me to a freestyle battle,after showing him you don't mess with old school cats,i got acquainted to his lovely sis,and met like two days after that by ourselves.We were having the usual music-movies-life conversation,when after she cited fugazi as her fave(since she was only 19 ,it was something),she then blurted out that her favorite flick i wouldn't know about(she didn't know i ride),but that it was called rad,that she had rented it thousands of times but had'nt seen it since 1990;needless to say ,i stayed shut and told her to come with me back home where i had a surprise for her.when we got home i busted out my bike and told her that i was a rad geek myself,then she almost died when i popped it into the VCR(i myself had years without watching it,but got a fresh copy in Puerto Rico courtesy of Pedro Medina,P.R Represent! Dudes,this proved to be the strongest catalyst I've ever witnessed,and now i have one more good reason to be a believer.Bike related romances do happen!!!The past merged with the present? What a Team!!! P.D.(She looks an awful lot like Lori,too!!!)