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My Science Project

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A teen (John Stockwell) and his girlfriend (Danielle von Zerneck) raid a military junkyard and find a time-travel contraption from a UFO.

Critics Reviews

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 01/21/2021
1.5/4
It's as pathetic as it is predictable. Go to Full Review
Rick Chatenever Santa Cruz Sentinel 03/26/2020
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. Go to Full Review
Barbara Shulgasser Common Sense Media 03/08/2016
2/5
'80s romp filled with scary alien powers and innuendo. Go to Full Review
Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal 09/17/2015
2.5/5
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. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 08/01/2005
2/5
Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat 04/07/2005
1/5
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Audience Reviews

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Spencer D @spdouglas25 Nov 19 Loved this movie as kid. If want a classic 80s movie with those expectations then will like it See more Tom W Mar 30 Great fun - Alien tech, a time warp and cool hot rod. See more Kent T Feb 13 Excellent movie, it was great from beginning to end, 1980s nostalgia at its finest. See more Joel H Feb 4 My Science Project is yet another movie poster I was fascinated with as a child, only to realize that the poster is better than the actual movie. I suspect that the pitch for this movie was something like, “what if there was a thing that did stuff?” Because the gizmo, as they call it, kind of works however the plot needs it to. Plus, the so-called heroes of the story are all kind of annoying. The dialogue is corny and sounds like it was recorded in a cave months after filming. I didn’t read any reviews beforehand, so I didn’t know what to expect, but I definitely expected more from My Science Project. See more Rafael A 01/25/2024 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. See more 06/26/2022 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. See more Read all reviews
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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
Producer
Jonathan T. Taplin
Screenwriter
Jonathan R. Betuel
Production Co
Silver Screen Partners II
Rating
PG
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Feb 3, 2004
Runtime
1h 34m
Sound Mix
Surround