John Hughes’s Weird Science understands the teenage male mind better than it is given credit for, reminding us all that our teenage dreams are often far more exciting than reality.
The average teenage boy spends at least two years locked in their bedroom, slowly working through a year’s supply of tissues while fantasising about sex. Many of the sexual ideas that swim around the young male mind are based on pure fantasy, and many will never be experienced or enacted in later life.
John Hughes’s Weird Science understands the teenage male mind better than it is given credit for, reminding us all that our teenage dreams are often far more exciting than reality. Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are on a mission to shed their geek label and harness deep, dark magic, along with a sprinkling of new technology, to create the perfect woman. But sometimes dreams come at a cost when all you really need is a good cuddle.
So why not take a trip back to those innocent days before internet porn and dating apps, days when the mysterious and exciting new world of sex still needed a bit of teenage imagination and creativity.
John Hughes loosely based Weird Science on the pre-Comics Code EC Comics titles of the same name, which also inspired a young Stephen King. But in Hughes‘ world, the horror is replaced by laugh-out-loud comedy as Wallace and Donnelly desperately try to improve their street cred while battling the demands of their erections. Thankfully, it all ends well, as their creation, Lisa, helps the boys find themselves and the confidence they have long desired.
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