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www.filmcritic.com - : Like something dug out of the back of John Hughes’s closet, among all the back issues of Amazing Tales, Playboy, and Mad – adolescent fantasy writ large and kind of creepy. It shouldn’t be forgotten, I suppose, that back before his career as a screenwriter, Hughes was a writer for National Lampoon. Weird doesn’t even really begin to describe this spotty misfire. more...
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2/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Weird Science'' combines two great traditions in popular entertainment: Inflamed male teenage fantasies and Frankenstein's monster. Then it crosses them with a new myth, that of the teenage computer geniuses who lock themselves in their bedrooms, hunch over their computer keyboards and write pro grams that can change the universe. more...
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3/4
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efilmcritic.com - : The story of a couple of geeks who, with the aid of their home computer, make their dream woman come to life sounds pretty feeble. Sounds even worse when you hear she has special powers and that they use those powers to have the biggest par-tay of the year. But the greatness of this film is it's total embracing of the ridiculous and it's cool script. more...
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5/5
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