Wonderful character development!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

And that's no good as far as Captain Howdy is concerned. Scatman Crothers? No... It's hard to describe what is going on in the Overlook Hotel. You only THOUGHT the pool scene was looped! :OThe truth is the whole thing is. :|

Another hilariously fun movie from the great decade of the 1980's. For as silly as this movie is at times, I laughed harder and more often than I do watching the vast majority of contemporary comedies. The clothes in this movie alone are a riot. The story, script and effects are ridiculous but its a thoroughly entertaining film from start to finish. Scatman Crothers has a couple of scenes that were so funny it brought tears to my eyes.

Zapped secured the services of three current teen stars to guarantee a box office for this comedic salute to Carrie. The three are Scott Baio from Happy Days, Willie Aames from Eight Is Enough, and Felice Schachter from The Facts Of Life. Would that things had only gone this well for Carrie on her prom night.Nerdy kid Scott Baio, a misunderstood science genius, gets some kind of chemicals mixed due to baseball coach Scatman Crothers spilling something and a noxious gas overtakes him in the laboratory in school. When he wakes up he finds himself with the power of telekinesis. After that it's one ridiculous situation after another.One thing about this film, except for the three leads nearly everyone else in the movie is a blithering idiot. Other kids, teachers, Baio's parents, Scatman Crothers is an exception. Best scene in the film is on prom night Baio's parents get a couple of priests to perform an exorcism on him.As for the prom, the scene is strictly a takeoff on Brian DePalma's Carrie with the damage played for laughs instead of violence. Typical brat pack comedy by three who were trying to break into the pack. Some funny scenes, but mostly kind of dopey.

I regret that the story had to be resolved by ruining a senior prom--i.e., using a sledgehammer for a flyswatter job. I regret that others were punished for what Peyton did. :( That is to say, that other kids were suddenly undressed (and the musicians fled) after Peyton's subterfuge was exhibited--the naked picture he subtly took of the girl. Then she stunned Barney with a hunk of watermelon. Silly me. I always thought that a culprit should be punished for his own deeds; oh, well, I guess the producers thought that the audience would consider it hilarious: "Better them than me..."