If I could go back in time ...

Rating: 3/10 (19 October 2006)

... I'd shoot everyone who had a hand in deciding to make this film. No jury would convict me, as long as we kept Gen Xers off the panel.
Now I'm sure I would have found this mindless heap of treacle screamingly funny too when I was twelve years old, but I had the misfortune to see it for the first time at age 46 as part of a nostalgia haul my wife brought home from the library. Not a great movie? If it were even *passable*, but it's grainy, often not quite in focus, the dialog pauses between the principals sound so patently like they're reciting painfully memorized lines, the alleged "cool" Rufus has about two minutes total screen time, and you'd have to be drunk or stoned to swallow the premise.
If you can ignore all of that ... the movie still reeks.
Now there were a few amusing lines, the sequence of the historical figures in the shopping mall was genuinely humorous, and the "oral presentation" had legit energy, but that's what keeps this flick from getting a rock bottom rating. I thought in the Eighties based on the trailers that this film was for subhumans only. I wasn't wrong.
3/10.