Weird Science was a lot of fun, a perfect light and frothy 1980s movie.
Although, having said that it is quietly subversive and more than a little risqué, it is unlike the other Directorial works of John Hughes.
In a nutshell, whilst two high-school nerds are watching a colourised version of Frankenstein, they hit upon the idea of using a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, who promptly turns their lives upside-down.
In a scene that echoed the earlier WarGames and perhaps foreshadowed AI our nerds tap into non-specific massive computing power via a dial-up modem!?
In any case, that perfect woman turns out to be Kelly LeBrock at the absolute peak of her powers, and not only does she do a bang-up job as Lisa she also seems to be having an absolute ball.
Aside from the year before's The Woman in Red the rest of Kelly's career was rather a non-event, which on this showing seems a shame.
The film also contains very early appearances for Bill Paxton and a pre-Junior Robert Downey.
We also have Vernon Wells relatively fresh from his rather similar role in Mad Max II, who then went on to appear in the following years Commando up against Arnie.
Last of note is Michael Berryman, best known for playing Pluto in the iconic The Hills Have Eyes.
These latter two actors have gone on to have prolific careers racking up more than 100 movie appearances each.
Of the two lead actors, only Anthony Michael Hall's's career amounted to much, his co-star Ilan Mitchell-Smith went on to do very little else.
I mention all this to illustrate just how varied and fickle this business we call show can be.
As Lisa's classic first line goes, and these are words to live by: "so, what would you little maniacs like to do first"?
