All star-spangled helmet and cape, but no motorcycle

Rating: 3/10 (28 January 2013)

This movie was all hat but no horse. It had all the trimmings of a great, silly, kick-back-and-relax movie. High school kid aspires to be Evil-Knievel-type stunt man and starts out by attempting to jump across the city swimming pool on his moped, before eventually taking on the inevitable row of school buses. Could have been a good comedy, and the actors would have had it in them, too. Unfortunately, good actors, the Eighties (or was it the late Seventies?) and a funny premise alone don't make it a comedy. The main problem here is predictability. You can watch the first and final ten minutes of the movie and draw the lines. And the dialogue is equally predictable.