I love this movie so much

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

If you are looking for an anthology program with all the magic and fine writing of "The Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limits", you should keep on looking. "Amazing Stories" was a short-lived 80s series and after re-watching a bunch of episodes recently, I was actually surprised it lasted two seasons and wasn't canceled sooner. This is because although it was a Steven Spielberg production, the show was incredibly uneven. Many of the episodes were bad--poorly written and very broadly acted. I think perhaps much of this is because they were trying to create a show that would appeal much more to kids than adults--and so many episodes are just tedious and annoying. It's a real shame, as a few of the shows (such as the one starring John Lithgow) were magical and sweet. The idea of such a program COULD have worked. It's just a darn shame the writing was so bad and the appeal strictly limited to kids.By the way, if you think I am wrong about the show, try re-watching a few episodes yourself. I thought the show was pretty good back in the 80s when it debuted but when seen today, they have clearly NOT aged well. The acting and subtlety seem more akin to "Family Matters" (that annoying Urkel show) or "Full House" than an anthology series. Also, the earlier episodes were a tad better and often featured top directors or famous actors directing (such as Timothy Hutton and Burt Reynolds). Later, the show fell into a more mundane pattern with less stars and a bit less entertainment.Also, if you watch, pay attention to the heavily computer generated intro. In the mid-80s, it was DEFINITELY state of the art and amazing. By today, it looks incredibly dated and shabby. This is NOT a criticism--more a comment about how far CGI has come since then.

Not only inspired by, but a veritable sequel of, "Twilight Zone - the Movie", is this trilogy of fantasy-adventure tales called "Amazing Stories". This video was released as a selection of episodes from the television series.Steven Spielberg again joins the team (you may remember his "Sunnyvale Rest Home" segment from "Twilight Zone") with an entry called "The Mission". An American flight crew take their lucky charm, the belly gunner, with them on his 24th mission, even though that number is believed to be bad luck. This is quite an emotional and stirring narrative that unfortunately ends with a rather implausible, though fantastic, whimper. Kevin Costner, Casey Siemaszko and Kiefer Sutherland are all very good, as is the support (may have inspired "Memphis Belle")."Mummy Daddy" is a humorous tongue-in-cheek comedy about an actor who gets a call that his wife has begun labour and so takes off in full mummy costume to go to the hospital. When he gets lost in the swamps where they were filming, and the real mummy, "Ra Amin Kha", is set loose, director William Dear provides enjoyable laughs.Finally Robert Zemeckis presents what is the weakest of the three shows, "Go to the Head of the Class", a macabre but fairly impotent tale about two young students who cast a spell on the English teacher they despise, only to be horrified when they discover they've killed him. Their subsequent effort at resurrecting him has bizarre results. Stan Winston's f/x and Christopher Lloyd's performance are both fun.Overall a reasonable 110 minutes entertainment, but hardly classic fantasy.Tuesday, July 12, 1994 - Video

Although I enjoyed the Amazing stories portion of this movie. Even more I loved Family Dog. When I was a kid, we watched this over and over again. My parents had recorded it off of TV, and couldn't get enough of it. One day the tape was destroyed, and I couldn't watch my favorite cartoon. However, I never forgot the lines from the movie. About a year ago I decided i wanted to look for the cartoon online, and lo and behold here it is. I'll never forget how funny this cartoon is. It will stay with me till the day I die! FAMILY DOG IS TRULY THE BEST! Wendy Lou says where's my Baby! where's maryanne, Where's maryanne! Where's Maryanne? There she is! Hewo maryanne, was you good baby! (Truly the best line in the entire movie. I couldn't love it any more. My children will be watching this movie.

I was 26 years old when "Amazing Stories" was on TV. My co-workers and I always talked about it the next day at work. Everyone I knew loved the show...it always gave us something great to talk about and almost always made us really, really laugh. Everyone got involved in the conversations and it was always in a positive way. Some of the shows were serious...some were very touching...and some were absolutely hilarious. But they were all very clever in one way or another. They remind me of "Tales from the Crypt" and "The Twilight Zone. Two very, very, very funny episodes were "Head of the Classs" and the one with the college boys with the pink goop in Science class. They were the two that were our favorites. Who couldn't help but repeat the line "Kiss me and I'm yours forever"? Or how about "Mr. Braaaaaad"? I did, however, miss the magnetic episode. And even from just hearing about it really tickled me. I remember laughing so hard that tears were running down my face when the people at work told me about it. I would really love to be able to see that one. Even after twenty years, I still find myself bringing up the show for some good reason or another. I miss the show very much, and I'm sitting on pins and needles waiting for it to come out on DVD.