JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

andyvanberkum 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. :|

Fluke_Skywalker Plot; A high school genius gains telekinetic powers after a lab accident.Looks and feels a lot like an updated (for the 80s) Disney's The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes... except with gratuitous nudity, strong language and drug use. By 80s R-rated teen comedy standards, however, those elements are rather tame and sparse. Zapped! is a childhood favorite, and I'm predisposed to love the genre because its films are what my Dad and I bonded over (with some Dads it's baseball, with mine it was Porky's), but nostalgia aside, I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this breezy, good natured romp. Here's to you, Dad.

Scarecrow-88 Playful little telekinesis comedy about a brainy high school science wiz who gains the power to move objects with his mind(..break glass, open/shut doors, hurl bullies in the air, cause baseballs to go wherever he so wishes in order to win the big game, etc.)after an experiment goes awry. Mad scientist formula moved into a sunny high school setting, with "dreamy heartthrob" Baio cast as the "nerd" Barney with overbearing parents who are concerned about his well being(..his mother, played over-the-top by Mews Small, always pointing her finger, barking orders, and insisting his dad take firm steps at getting to the bottom of things). Felice Schachter(The Facts of Life)is made up to look like a geek love interest for Barney..I always find it amusing in these 80's films where they take obviously attractive people like Baio and Schachter, attempting to costume them in "dork dress". As the film continues, we see that they are far from what one would associates a nerd to be.Anyway, Payton(..played by that charming, handsome devil, Willie Aimes of "Eight is Enough' & "Charles in Charge" fame, who seems to be having the time of his life as a popular chick magnet)wishes to exploit his buddy's telekinesis in an unfair duel with a college hunk named Robert(Greg Bradford) over the high school prom queen(..and head cheerleader), Jane Mitchell(the ridiculously hot Heather Thomas, whose "breast scenes" are obviously a double). Meanwhile Barney and Bernadette(Schachter)begin courting as she, along with Payton, are the only two who know of his powers. A problem develops(..it's deceptively a minor deal to add a bit of conflict in the thin plot)as Bernadette wishes for Barney to stop helping Payton use his power as a gambling tool. He'll have to choose between Payton and Bernadette..well, kind of, the film doesn't really ever plan to split apart anyone, this is rather evident.I kind of figured this would be more or less an effects movie, with plenty of wires used to make objects levitate and, through the use of careful editing and moving the film backwards, showing water and puke move in perfect streams towards Barney's desired destination. The ending spoofs "Carrie" where Barney uses his powers to get back at the students laughing at him when he gets boinked over the noggin with a watermelon meant for his pal, Payton. I vaguely remember "Zapped!" as a kid because my mentally retarded uncle watched it a lot(..as he did other films like The Return of Josey Whales and Reform School Girls!). I figured it'd be raunchy, but besides the grand finale at the prom, there's not a whole lot of nudity(..sure Barney pops the tops of girls who annoy him, but they occur sparingly and not on screen for long). There is plenty of naughty bits since Aames is quite the ladies' man(..we see that he even gets in on with the Principal's secretary, and that his photographic profession has benefited him substantially!)and a funny little ordeal between Principal Walter J Coolidge(haha!)and a schoolteacher..played by Robert Mandan and Sue Ane Langdon. Scatman Crothers steals his scenes as a terrible baseball coach who sneaks a shot of Jack inside Barney's science lab(..Barney uses the whiskey in an experiment with mice)..it's hard to not embrace a film when you have a hallucinatory sequence where Scat rides bicycles with Albert Einstein after being engulfed in a giant cloud of smoke, from an incinerator burning away marijuana(..Barney and Payton were growing a stash behind some orchids grown specifically for the Principal), while his wife(..played by Sanford and Son's LaWanda Page, haha)dressed up as a Viking marching towards them in her chariot with four black stallions, blasting forbidden salami "bullets" at him! For juvenile tastes like mine, "Zapped!" goes down rather easy, others might beware unless you enjoy this kind of zany stuff. Riotous finale has clothes stripping off of students as a wind gust blows over tables and decorations with girls and boys running for their lives as the dresses and pants rip away from their bodies.

bkoganbing 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.