'WEIRD SCIENCE'..........WAIT'LL THEY GETTA DOWNLOAD 'A ME..............

 Weird Science (1985)   Might as well finish our excursions into prehistoric Hi-Tech movies ("The Andromeda Strain", "Colossus:The Forbin Project") with writer-director John Hughes's take on the subject.......

                 Naturally in Hughes-World,, the primary function of l980's computer technology was to provide two horny teen nerds, (Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith) with the chance to create their own wet dream Hot Babe....(Kelly LeBrock)

                   And so they do........anticipating, by decades, 3D printing and virtual reality humans......

                  Not that we're bestowing any Nostradamus-like abilities to John Hughes......he dashed off most of the script for this goofy trifle while in the midst of directing that Mount Rushmore of Teen Angst, "The Breakfast Club"......

                  Gifted social satirist that he was, Hughes saw the brave new tech future as any red-blooded American filmmaker would.......a wellspring for slapstick gags.

                   So no surprise that "Weird Science" stands apart, in a class by itself in the middle of the Hughes filmography........a quickie cartoon, knocked off in a hurry by a director just havin' a little fun with all his standard tropes, but throwing in stuff he couldn't possibly get away with in his more grounded teen dramedies.

                   And yet, throughout all the film's hyper hijinks, Hughes sticks to a moral path as rigid as any Disney animated movie. Kelly LeBrock's gigabytes Fairy Hotmother never wavers in her determination to instill a sense of confidence and self-respect in the two cowering geeks who've given her life.....in that regard, she's practically Jiminy Cricket in a mini-skirt and fishnet stockings.

                 This quest of the hard-drive honey includes vanquishing many of the boys' many adversaries.......clueless, unloving parents and Mitchell-Smith's horrorshow of an older brother.....played to caricatured perfection by the late, great Bill Paxton in his first major screen role.

                 Even though "Weird Science" really starts to run out of both steam and comic ideas about halfway through, audiences (us included) never stop enjoying it, carried along by the movie's initial, inspired high concept gimmick.......(what kid wouldn't want to conjure up his own gorgeous girlfriend with a little furious typing on his computer keyboard...)

               And of all the hateful bullies of Hughes' teen universe, who received a more worthy comeuppance than Bill Paxton's character......turned into a walking, talking pile of shit......a fate that Hughes could dole out only in an off-the-wall wish fulfillment fantasy like this one.  (Judd Nelson could only dream of doing that to the detention monitor in "Breakfast Club".....)

              Therefore we'll fondly download 3 stars (***) to "Weird Science"......maybe half a star more than it deserves.....but the movie still always leaves us with a dumb smile on our face.......as if we'd reactivated long dead teenage hormones and just gotten Gal Gadot, in full Wonder Woman regalia, to pop out of our laptop........