It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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.

This is a movie I truly love as it has everything you need to see in a science fiction, sex and comedy film. I love the plot and all the science shown. This is one of the best movies from the early 80's. It truly is a magnificent Rated-R movie that I have ever seen. It's my favorite. I love the songs that go with this movie. Scott Baio is my favorite actor in this movie and I like all the things his character does and love his pranks on people. I like how Barney treats other people(mainly girls) with his power of telekinesis which he gets in a lab explosion. He used the power for personal games. Overall, I see this movie as a success and the best Sci-Fic movie that I have ever seen. It is the best movie ever made from the 80's. I believe this movie is great for all adults to see and you all will enjoy it. So go ahead and watch it.

Barney Springboro (Scott Baio) is a real high school science nerd. His best friend Peyton Nichols (Willie Aames) just wants to party. Coach Dexter Jones accidentally adds to Barney's formula. Bernadette is the pushy class nerd who wants to interview Barney. The mixture explodes giving him telekinetic powers. Jane Mitchell (Heather Thomas) is the entitled cheerleader going out with a college guy. Both Bernadette and Peyton find out about Barney's powers. Bernadette wants to publish while Peyton uses his powers to win a baseball game.It's a functional sex romp of a pretty low caliber. It was a lot better seeing this as a boy. This is the usual raunchy teen movie with nude boobs. The idea of a guy with telekinetic powers is a lot better than the execution here. The highlight is Heather Thomas. Scott Baio has a bit of charisma but he doesn't seem to be fully committed to being a nerd. A good pair of thick glasses would help and he needs to button up his shirt. It's like he's too cool to play the part.

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.