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My Science Project

Play trailer Poster for My Science Project PG 1985 1h 34m Sci-Fi Play Trailer Watchlist
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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.

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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

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Tom W Great fun - Alien tech, a time warp and cool hot rod. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/30/25 Full Review Kent T Excellent movie, it was great from beginning to end, 1980s nostalgia at its finest. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/25 Full Review Joel H 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. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/25 Full Review 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 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 Audience Member liked it , very 80s vibe , miss the 80s silly campy fluff but so what? Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review 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