it is awesome. i have watched sections of it dozens of times over the years when i stumbled across it on basic cable.
"can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis?"
"not right now."
"well, a girl's gotta have her standards."
a-hahahaha. she was the girl from Valley Girl as well.

One of those movies that, when I see it on cable, I have to stop and watch the rest. This was a favorite when I was 9 or 10 and has held up. I'm a fan of the cheesy music and the 80s-style montage sequences. My only problem with the film, now that I'm older, is that it kind of peters out near the end, or becomes a bit too serious, losing the tongue-in-cheek tone of the rest.

A house full of popcorn sounds dreamy.
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I was 15 when I saw this, and decided at the moment that I needed a pair of pink bunny slippers just like Val Kilmer's.

Very quickly I learned that the stereotypical pink, backless bunny slippers that I've seen in several films are not as common as Hollywood wants you to think. I have not been able to find one pair of bunny slippers that fits this criteria AND could be worn by an adult.

I'm convinced that there's only one pair, and that they're kept in a vault beneath Hollywood.

Not Crap

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:Try Google

Unfortunately, those are not pink. I've actually been up and down google trying to find them for years. You will not find bunny slippers meeting those three criteria: Pink, Backless and for Adults.

before they made this thing called the "internet," it took me years to compile the never-made soundtrack. no mp3s, all ripped from vinyl. fuck, it took so long to find the best song in the movie, "number one" - - nowadays, some kid just posts mp3s of the soundtrack, no hard work whatsoever. damn kids! remember the 80s? hah hahahahahha grandpa!

no seriously. i made a soundtrack- that's how much this movie was cool. bu then again i was in 5th grade when this came out. 1985? yeah, 5th grade.

NOT CRAP

not crap!

this movie rules - pre-internet, it was very hard for a dorky geeky smart kid to find any sort of media that made being dorky and geeky and smart seem like an asset instead of a daily liability. a good chunk of my smartassery and nosetweakery comes from this film.

WHAT WOULD CHRIS KNIGHT DO?

Real Genius and Top Secret: The two best movies of Val Kilmer's career.