Very Cool!!!

From my favorite movies..

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

An exceedingly ordinary family movie, filmed with the younger generation especially in mind, the premise of a boy genius works out to be amusing at times but drone at other times, and the film makes overall nothing more than satisfactory viewing. The acting, the technical side of the film and the screenplay are all quite average in quality - although, it might be of concern to some that the science behind it all is a little bit off. Not really a film for adults, perhaps the younger viewers will be able to take something out of it, but either way, it does not come highly recommended as anything better than just 'okay'.

Well, I think so - and even voted for it on Film2003's poll as such. It's atrocious, and this is from my memories as a kid when I loved some real stinkers.It looks like it was filmed on a camcorder (a very cheap one) and has no dialogue, acting, staging, direction, sets. In fact, if less money has ever been spent on a film (in proportion) then i'd like to know about it.Avoid - unless it's purely for the novelty of being able to say you saw "The Worst Film Ever"tm

I remember seeing this moving on at least two occassions while still in High School. It was sometime between 1981 and 1983, and the movie was playing together with some other show as a double feature at the Valley Twin theater in Kearns, Utah. This movie was rather interesting. It featured a young kid (who I thought looked a little bit like Barret Oliver, and later discovered it wasn't him) who was a computer and electronic genious. He'd talk to his friends at night over his cb radio when he was supposed to be in bed sleeping. He was always getting into mischief. He had invented some kind of remote control device that would do the impossible. An example was a scene where he was in school, he discretely points the remote at the clock on the wall and the time fast-forwards, causing the bell to ring and class lets out early. There were other scenes involving this same gadget where, if I recall, it confused traffic lights and caused a traffic jam. There is also something about a bank, where I believe the kid uses the remote to bypass the bank's security. His father, if I remember correctly, played some kind of authorative role in the movie, I think he was a police officer, I'm not sure. I thought the movie was rather cute. It was a school kid's fantasy, somewhat like "Ferris Beuhler's Day Off", only aimed at younger kids. I thought the movie was rather cool. A bit far-fetched, but a good show that the entire family would enjoy watching. Hardly anyone's heard of this one and I'm glad to know somebody out there actually remembers it! I have no idea where to find this show on video tape.

The movie is actually set in the town of Kerrville, Texas and came on the heels of a movie made there the year before (Pony Express Rider). My grandfather has a bit part in the movie as the judge in Willies dream sequence. It has taken me over 3 years to find a copy of this movie as it went directly to TV and had a limited video release. The story is OK and the acting is adequate while the FX leaves a lot to be desired even by 1978 standards.