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      My Science Project

      PG 1985 1 hr. 34 min. Sci-Fi List
      11% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 56% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score A teen (John Stockwell) and his girlfriend (Danielle von Zerneck) raid a military junkyard and find a time-travel contraption from a UFO. Read More Read Less

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      Rafael A When I first watched it as a kid, it was awesome! I still think about it. I'm hesitant to watch it again today because I'm afraid it might change my good memory of it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/24 Full Review Ed E It was corny and lots of inaccurate stuff (like a supercharger having a switch) but it was a movie I keep coming back to from 1985. It's fun. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/25/23 Full Review Don S Childish low budget waste of time! The sound reproduction is absolutely rubbish and amateur, the acting questionable. Even worse, is how much It's slow and tedious! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/19/23 Full Review Robert F The movie is what it is. It definitely didn't win any awards. But it's fun to go back and watch a movie I geeked out to as a kid. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/09/23 Full Review Virgil M This movie is a classic 80's film. It stands right along all those other films we all know and remember so fondly. One of the best features is the car. Right along with mad max and maximum overdrive. If your a fan of the 80s, cool cars, and random time line alterations and of course Dennis Hopper it's a win, win, WIN!. It's a chill and watch with the kids while you return to your youth. Love this movie a total classic. Side note if your one of those ass hats who reviews an 80's movie and complains about stereotypes and plot holes you shouldn't be reviewing movies! It's like watching a silent film and complaining there no sound! Go back to complaining on FB... Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/05/22 Full Review Audience Member This movie has not aged well. I remember it being way better in the 80s. Of course I was 9 in 1985 and didn't know any better. And that was before we we lived in a more enlightened era, at least when comes to social norms. Fisher Stevens character is more annoying than Pauly Shore was in the 90s, and that's really saying something. The constant attempt to be the smart-ass, funny sidekick grows old really fast. You'll be routing for the dinosaur to actually eat him at one point in the film. I realize it's from a by-gone era, but I'm pretty sure Fisher Stevens would be horrified and embaressed rewatching this film. The sexually derogatory language he uses would get him lynched today. The main character, Michael is just playing clueless, and the other characters are just stereo-types that really don't add anything to the story, aside from bring conventional plot devices. The highlight is Dennis Hopper. You can tell he's having fun revisiting his Easy Rider roots. it's quirky, it had an interesting idea, but the proper execution just wasn't there. It's basically your typical 80s throwaway sci-fi comedy. It had its heart in the right place, but fortunately it lacks intelligence. This science project gets a D at best. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/01/22 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Matt Brunson Film Frenzy It's as pathetic as it is predictable. Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 21, 2021 Full Review Rick Chatenever Santa Cruz Sentinel The characters are flat, the plot is full of holes and everytime anything looks like it might get exciting, Betuel throws in something totally unbelievable to spoil it. Mar 26, 2020 Full Review Barbara Shulgasser Common Sense Media '80s romp filled with scary alien powers and innuendo. Rated: 2/5 Mar 8, 2016 Full Review Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal The inventive finale can't save a painfully slow film that feels like a cheap, hastily wrapped assembly-line product. Like "Back to the Future," it's instructive in the perils of rose-colored nostalgia, but only because it's worse than you remember. Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 17, 2015 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 1, 2005 Full Review Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat Rated: 1/5 Apr 7, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A teen (John Stockwell) and his girlfriend (Danielle von Zerneck) raid a military junkyard and find a time-travel contraption from a UFO.
      Director
      Jonathan Beteul
      Screenwriter
      Jonathan R. Betuel
      Production Co
      Silver Screen Partners II
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Sci-Fi
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Feb 3, 2004
      Sound Mix
      Surround