Visitors Review

Jack (2012-05-26 03:17)

Simplistic entertainment at its best.

This is your brain. This is your brain on prune juice. A lot of people hatethis movie, but it offers entertainment of the mindless kind! And it's goodfor that purpose. I saw it when I was teenager (I'm 24 now) and it has beena classic between my homies and I. Buddah help you if you don't like thisfilm when I show it to you (GET OUT)!;-) I worry about people who dislikeitso much. It means they are too serious. I suppose you need to be in themindframe of a kid to really enjoy it, without jaded sexual expectations (andweirdoes, don't rent/buy this movie if you're just horny). Not the typicaleighties sex fest. Rent it or buy it just to see the stupid mistakes (theyare unreal) and the endless jokes you can get from it. Classic! It'sgenius. So bad it's good. For instance, when they have the super cheesy13thannual penguin run, then they say the key club has held the title since the40's or something, IT JUST DOESN'T ADD UP! and its GREAT! Or when they lockdoors and three seconds later they just pop open. HILARIOUS, because it'snot intentional!!! C'mon now! If you cant find humor here, you are DEAD orjust too damn serious. Don't expect an award winning script, it's aboutprune juice and telekinesis!!!!!

bkoganbing (2012-05-25 13:08)

Zapped Again...........Trapped Again........That Telekinesis Rap Again

There was nothing so terribly great about the first Zapped movie,certainly nothing that warranted inflicting a sequel on the Americanmovie going public. But who knows what the producers thought in makinganother film. I can't believe there was a great demand for a sequel.All the tumult from the Carrie like prom night that ended the firstZapped movie has died down. It's some eight years later and a whole newgroup of kids is at Emerson High School. A new misfit of a kid in ToddEric Andrews comes to town. After that it's the usual angst as the various cliques in the schoolshun him and he joins the science club where they find in the lab whereScott Baio accidentally discovered that telekinesis formula. It's seemslike he hid a stash of it behind the Albert Einstein picture in a holein the wall. When Todd imbibes, the high school world becomes his.Of course Todd's got eyes for the head cheerleader Maria McCann eventhough Kelli Williams of the science club really digs him. Maria'sproperty of Reed Rudy the head jock at the school and he and Todd keephaving it out. Of course Reed's overmatched from the gitgo with thattelekinesis thing Todd's got going for him.The climax at the homecoming was really dumb. Rudy frames the scienceclub and gets their space for his exclusive fraternity and then furthertries to humiliate them at the homecoming. But putting them in chargeof the food? Dumb, Dumberer, Dumbest, that's just begging for payback.What a MAROON.It's funny like the first Zapped in a juvenile sort of way and its forthem I'd recommend it.

(2012-05-24 04:29)

Best 90's Teen Movie!!!!!!!!!!

I do not care what any says or thinks. Zapped Again! is the best teen movie of the 90's! Along w/ Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Mallrats, & Clueless. Those all the better than She's All That & all those other BS teen movies made five years ago. Anyways, I loved the whole & especially when Todd Eric Andrews followed Scott Baio's path. There is also an awesome music video at the end as well. If you grew up in this era like me or just love awesome movies. Than this is the best teen movie to see w/ your friends. Its totally 90s!!!!!!!!!!

Zack Bennett (2012-05-23 13:27)

It's good...give it a chance

I liked it! I don't care what anyone else says, I liked it! It wasentertaining. Any movie or show about superpowers and telekinesis andthings like that are entertaining to me, and this is no exception. Ihaven't seen Zapped!, but I heard it's better than this, so that oneshouldbe great! Anyway, Kelli Williams is cute, and it would've been better ifshe was the one who used the powers more, but that dude (I forgot hisname,I haven't seen the movie in 7 months) is a nerd...yes.

(2012-05-22 11:44)

This Zapped! lacked bite

This movie made the first one seemed a campy classic. Well, the first one deserved to be a campy classic. "Zapped Again" the sequel is none of the above.Took place perhaps several years after the first one, Todd Eric Andrews played another nerd who discovered Scott Baio's stash of telekinetic prune juice in a secret compartment in the wall of his former lab. Meanwhile he is trying to start a science club while being harrassed by the jocks.With a cameo appearance by Linda Blair, the classic clothes ripping finale of the first movie was mentioned in passing. So does this movie ended with a high note as the first?No, not exactly. But let's say that in this movie, high school girls started wearing bras for a change and that guys can't no longer stuff their supposedly LONG tuxedo shirts into their skimpy underwear. Which means....the ending is a yawner.And so is this movie. It fail to live up to the first one.....which shouldn't be too difficult to begin with.

culwin (2012-05-21 18:58)

The humanity!

6 votes for a "10" rating? Either the imdb had a glitch, or the cast ofthis movie is trying to save themselves the humiliation of findingthemselves on the bottom-100 list (which I'm sure they will joinshortly).To summarize, this kid moves to a new high-school, where things are prettylame. He makes friends with the local Science Club, who are being bulliedby the Key Club (where all the jocks and popular people hang out) and thefaculty. Nothing seems to go right until the kid and his new friendsdiscover a formula that gives him superpower-type-telekenesis. He findsthat he can control objects with his mind. But it only lasts a short time,however, so they put the power into a bottle of prune juice, which he drinksanytime he needs the power. With his new power and his super-coolness, heoutwits the faculty and the local bullies, gets the girl, and saves theScience Club.I could almost accept this pathetic movie for what it is if it was made inthe early 80's, along with all the other cheesy Animal-House and Revenge ofthe Nerds rip-offs. But this movie was actually made in 1990 (1989 in thecredits), which is something that is really hard to believe. The soundtrackis about 10 years behind cool, as are the clothes, the plot, well,everything. The whole movie looks like a terrible, twisted version of"Saved by the Bell", and the cheesiness of the whole thing can berepresented by the music-video-like ending that makes Vanilla Ice lookcool.There is nothing positive I can even say about this movie, except that thegirl is kind of cute. Don't rent this movie, don't watch this movie, don'tgo near this movie.Two words: Lyle Alzedo. 'Nuff said.

Adam Klein (2012-05-21 15:33)

Oh, come on.

It's not all that awful ... it's actually sort of fun.Yes, it's completely formula. Yes, it's total cheese. That's what everyoneexpects, though. It's light, it's funny, and it's got just a smattering ofnaked. Just what you need for 2 in the morning.Lighten up.AK

(2012-05-20 17:59)

I Didn't Like It And It Had Nothing To Do With It Being Silly!

I watched the first movie Zapped on Cable, I think it was on HBO or Cinemax or one of those other movie channels and I really liked it and found it very amusing but one day I was watching TV and this sequel called Zapped Again came on and I thought it was terrible and very disappointing and probably one of the worst sequels I have ever seen! And no I wasn't expecting a serious movie like The Shawshank Redemption or Citizen Kane. Seriously I think anyone who has seen the First Zapped movie and liked it knows that it was silly and that the sequel is likely to be silly too. I like silly movies so clearly that is NOT why I didn't like Zapped Again. I didn't like Zapped Again because I thought it was boring and was not as funny as Zapped! Actually I didn't find this sequel funny at all.

(2012-05-20 09:49)

LAME!

Zapped which is the original movie isn't the best movie ever made but it had a charm to it and is worth at least 3 stars but Zapped Again the sequel is lame, lame lame!

evil_dustmite (2012-05-19 17:12)

i can lift things with my mental powers

zapped again is a sequel to the 70's zapped(of coarse). well it takes place in high school. ok. and a new guy is in school. he's a smart, charismatic, outgoing, good looking guy having a hard time fitting in. well he finally finds a place with the tiny group of people called the science club. while they're the science club meeting room they find a stash of prune juice. actually its not prune juice but stuff created by a teenage genious from the first movie that gives them mental powers. mostly to move things telekineticly. well the new kid drinks it and gets powers. silliness ensues and all kinds of things happens. anyhow its a good movie. a little cheesey. but cute.

Monkasi (2012-05-19 20:38)

I didn't get zapped; I got swindled

I'm glad I saw this movie on late-night TV rather than renting it for fourbucks on video, because I got screwed big time. Why weren't the charactersas funny and outrageous as they were in the 1982 original? More to thepoint, where was the SEX? The Scott Baio movie fairly dripped with prurientappeal. I mean, they had an entire prom full of scantily-clad people runningaround; why didn't they have a prom scene this time? And why was this movieso gosh darn wholesome? You have to be between the ages of 13 and 18 tofully appreciate it, and I think I was about 20 when I saw it. There'shardly any profanity, and the writers must have thought that people wouldfind jokes about the word "wiener" daring and hilarious. Who thought up thissequel, a roomful of second graders? It was direct-to-video, for God's sake!There should have been MORE racy material, not less! It should have beenworthy of an R rating, but instead they made it tantamount to a PG-13. I wasvery disappointed with ZAPPED AGAIN! Watch it for the laughs, but not somuch for the flesh.

fivestarrhetoric (2012-05-19 08:01)

hilarity

If you happen to come across this movie in some late-night setting onTNT or USA, as I have every time I see it, you will be in the best moodto watch this movie. It is not a middle of the day, hey lets rent this,movie. It's a happenstance movie. And it's hilarious. And there is onesmall encounter between the teacher and Kevin. I believe it goes likethis: Kevin: How about, is your clam ready for my linguine? Teacher:Oh, no little boy, how about is your linguine ready for my clam?gross.

Stone-31 (2012-05-17 16:15)

THIS FILM SUCKS!

This film was the swansong of the dying 80s. Not only did it fail todeliver, it showed how low Linda Blair (of "The Exorcists" fame) and KarenBlack ("Five Easy Pieces") sank.I don't blame the actors or actresses, or, for that matter, the director.The fault belongs to the writer (who should have known better) and to theproducers. The problem with Hollywood is that it can't produce anythinggood anymore; if you want something like the original "Zapped!", just see"Zapped!"The plot is hackneyed. It's good, I suppose, if you're bored and it's aFriday evening with nothing better to do, and you happen to be watchingJoeBob Briggs.

Jackal-26 (2012-05-17 11:04)

A truly fun movie

The 80's, wow, they gave us some pretty wacky stuff. Stuff like MichaelJackson as we now know him, the appreciation of music from any other timeperiod, and the teen movie.This movie is a teen movie. It's not supposed to be a complex mentalthriller. It's a film to make you laugh . Not so much at its jokes, but themovie itself. Sure the plot isn't Oscar material. Maybe the acting isn'tsuperb. But the movie is hilarious.The whole plot is uproariously preposterous. The movie goes against a lot ofteen-flick principles. The hero isn't very geeky. The nerdy girl waitingon the sidelines is quite attractive, and at one point the movie goes blackand white for a Casablanca scene that still makes me giggle. The wholeprune juice telekinesis thing is never made clear, but that's ok, because thezapped part in the title only comes up about 3 or 4 times.This movie was made in 1990, but the early 90s were simply the last revelsof the 80s. This movie is an 80s teen-flick. The jokes are 80s and themusic is the 80s. But the 80s were funny.I love this movie, it is a great flashback to a less stressful time, backwhen some crazy magic thingy would always save the day. Simply put, thismovie is a great party movie, it features a really cute girl, KelliWilliams, and it's worth a rent.

Atcho (2012-05-15 03:50)

nice sequel...

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Stanbabe (2012-05-14 20:49)

Linda Blair's talents are waisted in this forgetable sequel of Scott Baio flick.

In this sequel to "Zapped!".Another High School science nerd inadvertedlyfinds Scott Baio's stash of Teleknetic potions.He decides to use thesesupermential power controlling drinks to get rid of the school bullies.Who aretrying to take over their science club.The plot is predictable,boring andphoney.It doesn't have the overtly sexual gags of the previous film andthere is none of the memorable characters from the first film in thispicture.I doubt that Mr.Crothers(who played Dexter in the firstfilm),Ms.Langdon(Who does appear in this film as theprincipal),Mr.Waldron,Mr.Bakey,Mr.Bowenor even Ms.Page(who still plays the abusive,henpecking Crazed PCmoralisticpest that she was known for on "Sandford & Son")would have helped thisforgetable sequel at all.Even Linda Blair's appearance in this stupidmovieas a Home Ecconomics teacher is limited to a cameo.That was used for aneedless and tasteless sexual sight gag.Linda Blair is still a talentedperformer.But her efforts are waisted in this mindless piece ofHollywoodized Teen crap.

(2012-05-13 01:09)

ZANny

This film is extremely goofy and isn't for anyone who wants a sophisticated film like "The Shawshank Redemption" or even "Bambi" for that matter! I've never seen the original Zapped, nor do I want to, but the music for this movie is AMAZING!!; it's so nostalgically 80's and there's one song on here called "If I Didn't Love You" by Esther Terry that for a long time I was really wishing was available on CD somewhere!!! now I know I'd probably sell it a month later if I did have it on CD, but anyway; the main character who gets "Zapped" (???) has a charming sense of sarcasm running on and off throughout the film and Linda Blair makes a special "dress apperance" (find out what I mean by watching the film!), plus the music and look of the film is so highly reminiscent of the late 80's!!! It reminds me of those old days when I used to see the very beginning of "Step By Step" and shows like that (???) and then, I guess, my mother either turned the TV off or I had to go to school or something like that...but anyway; if you can make room in your DVD collection for little films like this and you went to high school in the 80's or **wish** you did, then this film **MIGHT** be for you!

SpikeBuff (2012-05-12 04:18)

Dullesville!

I loved the original Zapped, the one that was made in the 80's andstarred Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Heather Thomas and that former teenmodel named Felice. That movie with it's goofy humor was charming and Iliked the cast and the plot of the geeky teenaged scientistaccidentally mixing some potion that gave him the power of telekinesis.I saw that on HBO several times and enjoyed it and than bought the VHSvideo tape. I saw the sequel Zapped 2 on TV and it just doesn't havethe humor or the charm of Zapped 1 and I think it stinks that thismovie has made it to DVD when Zapped 1 isn't on DVD at all. I meanshouldn't the first movie had made it to DVD first! This sequel isterrible and a major snorefest. Dullesville! Yawn City!

(2012-05-08 04:04)

Yes, it stinks

That about sums it up. The most interesting thing about this film is the uncanny similarity between the voice and delivery of star Todd Eric Andrews and David Spade. But we already have one and we don't need another.

sol- (2012-05-07 17:30)

My brief review of the film

Todd Eric Andrews is brilliant in this film, working with a very witty,charismatic and charming character. His presence is not only enough tocompensate for a silly plot and a predictable, lifeless romance, but heis also able to bring this sequel to a level higher than the firstfilm. The are a number of amusing moments, and they are genuinely funnythis time round, with likable even if very silly characters and Andrewsheading the cast. Just like the first entry, this is not a film towatch for nudity, as there is very little. It is not one to watch forthe premise either, because all the science behind it is not deeplyexamined. But, it is a film to watch for amusement - simple good fun.