Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.
This is ordinary stuff that's aged about as well as Mitchell-Smith's clunky computer.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
Weird Science combines two great traditions in popular entertainment: Inflamed male teenage fantasies and Frankenstein's monster.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Even 14-year-old boys may find it heavy sledding.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Weird Science veers off into a typical coming-of-age saga without exploring any of the psychological territory it lightly sails over in the early going.