This was part of the the 1985 clump of films that included REAL GENIUS and WEIRD SCIENCE. Of the three MY SCIECE PROJECT is the one that no one talks about because it doesn't have Val Kilmer or an Oingo Boingo theme song. It also feels kind of cheap.
The film is the story of a high school kid who only loves cars who finds part of a crashed UFO in disused military bunker. He takes it home in the hope of making it his science project. Trouble occurs when it is connected to a power source since it opens a rift in time. Chaos results.
This was the last of the three students and science projects gone wrong films to be released in 1985. The result was that the film kind of got lost at the box office. By the time it hit home video I know a lot of people had completely forgotten about it. I know that when I worked in the video store I would constantly point the film out to anyone who said that they like WEIRD SCIENCE or REAL GENIUS and the reaction was always that the person forgot aboutthe film's existence..
As with other films in this collection of "forgotten" Disney films there was a point where Disney kind of disavowed them and removed them from rotation. Early cable reruns became it being effectively locked in the closet before dumped on home video without any fanfare.
I like the film. There is a more serious edge to it compared to the other films. The effects are okay even if they are a bit cheap. I think Disney was in a cost cutting mode when this came out. The cast is fine, with Dennis Hopper wonderful as the loopy science teacher. I will say that I think part of the problem the film disappeared is that they put John Stockwell in the lead. Yes he's a good actor, but at the same time he is better in support than as a lead.
Should you see it? Yes. It's a lot of fun.
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