Tonight’s super-shitty and yet super-awesome feature presentation. This film CHANGED MY LIFE when I was six years old. Released in theaters for about two hours in 1985, My Science Project became a tremendous point of obsession for me during the VHS revolution, as I introduced this complete piece of nonsense to all my friends, with many of us walking around and reciting the absurd dialogue, much to the annoyance of our parents. It was also recorded off of one of the movie channels by my poor mother, who clearly wasn’t fully aware of the asinine and questionable material/content that was present in the playfully vulgar narrative involving high school students, their wacky science teacher, and a time machine that creates a vortex and allows portals in time and different dimensions to drop off dinosaurs, ancient warriors, and Vietnam combat in their school gymnasium.
Written and directed by The Last Starfighter co-writer Jonathan Betuel, who also wrote/directed Theodore Rex with Whoopi Goldberg(!), and starring future director John Stockwell (Blue Crush, Turistas), future producer/director Fisher Stevens (The Cove, Crazy Love, Before the Flood), Dennis Hopper (“I’ve been at Woodstock, honky!”), Richard Masur in a priceless cowboy hat, and Danielle von Zerneck as the “dorky girl who becomes super-hot once she takes off her glasses,” this is one of those movies that I wish EVERYONE had a chance to grow up with. As one might imagine, My Science Project was not a hit in the theaters, but I’m willing to bet it has a plethora of nostalgic fans. Somehow, this was released by Disney/Touchstone. Swedish distributors re-titled the film to TimeBusters, in the hopes of trading off of the successes of Back to the Future and Ghostbusters. Available on a bare bones but anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen Blu-ray from Mill Creek.
Review by Nick Clement
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My Science Project
Summary
Super-shitty, yet super-awesome. As one might imagine, My Science Project was not a hit in the theaters, but I’m willing to bet it has a plethora of nostalgic fans.
