My Science Project Movie Download

5 / 10

Great special effects for a fun but easily forgettable popcorn movie.
A lack of star power is probably why this teen science fiction action comedy is not remembered outside of cult fans who saw it in 1985 or on its initial VHS release. John Stockwell is a teenager desperate to find something to present to his science class as a project, and goes where no teenager should go, falling into a pit where he discovers this machine that creates a lot of havoc out of its electrical powers. In the first scene, whatever this is supposed to be is being investigated by the military and quickly buried because they don’t know what to do with it. Stockwell and his girlfriend Danielle von Zerneck go to the military junkyard, and he promptly falls into a pit, bringing this thing with him and finding out that it is filled with electricity which soups up his car and eventually case him into a world of wonders with the creatures and visuals it creates.

Not making much sense, this film still keep the audience entertained with a fast pace and wacky teen characters, including a wisecracking kid who seems to have taken lessons from Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield in the yard of the sarcastic rhetoric. Fisher Stevens from “Short Circuit” and Raphael Sbarge provide amusing moments, but it’s the weirdness of what this contraption does that makes the audience wonder what’s going to happen next. Several weird creatures as well as a dinosaur threaten the kids with danger, and the film just basically ends in a abrupt manner that I found didn’t really complete the plot. But for 90 minutes, there are some good moments, even though along with the project, it has probably ended up in the dustbin of 80’s adventures.Read More