Weird Science

Name: Weird Science
Released: 1985-8-2
Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly Le Brock, Robert Downey Jr., Bill Paxton

Weird Science

PG-13
1h 33m
2008

56%

age 15+

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If you can’t get a date, make one! That’s the theory in this wild comedy about two teens (Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith) who set out to make the perfect woman (Kelly LeBrock).

Director:

John Hughes

Producer:

Joel Silver

Writer:

John Hughes

Cast:

Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly Le Brock, Robert Downey Jr., Bill Paxton

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

56%

Critics Consensus: Hardly in the same league as John Hughes' other teen movies, the resolutely goofy Weird Science nonetheless gets some laughs via its ridiculous premise and enjoyable performances.

Reviews

Midwest Film Journal

Nick Rogers

Think of Weird Science as a Vanilla Sky for John Hughes. It's anomalous to his usual genre but ana...

Weird Science is pretty much as perfect a 1980s teen comedy as has ever existed.

Hughes' script is extremely ragged and not especially good -- honestly, it often feels as it was w...

Weird Science has a laser-line to the hopes and fears of teen-age boys.

The movie is the latest in the "Wouldn't it be neat if . . .?" school of movies.

January 4, 2018

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 15+

Common Sense Says

Guilty-pleasure '80s horny-geek sci-fi sex comedy.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this popular '80s comedy -- an early recipient of the new PG-13 rating -- has frequent adolescent sex, booze, and boob and drug jokes. Two main characters are lust-driven and manage to create a beautiful artificial woman as a sex-fantasy plaything -- but they are unsuccessful in their timid efforts to get something started with her and end up treating the bombshell more like a big sister. There are scenes of underage drinking (as a bonding exercise with threatening black males), much swearing (usually the s-word), and cavalier behavior with cars and a gun. Nudity includes a girl who loses all her clothes (in profile) in a windstorm, and a schematic of bare breasts on a PC monitor. Recreational drugs are briefly mentioned.