The idea of having teens running around using telekinetic, telepathic etc. powers for their own benefit intrigued me, it might not have been original, but it still interested me. I was so disappointed, though. Ugh, but the plot was executed so horrendously!! I can't believe that people actually liked this movie! Everything was so cheesy and the actors do not deserve to be called actors! It was just soo crappy!
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Finished criticizing there Ebert?
shareI have to agree. When I first heard the concept of this movie, I was more than a little excited to see it. Then I actually saw it.
I'm going to ignore the most obvious attrocities of this movie, such as acting, effects, plot, etc, and only comment on the teens. These were not "underdogs" or the poor unfortunates that got rejected by society. These were simply losers that tried their best not to be accepted, then cried about it when they were outcast. I didn't care about them nor their problems at all.
This film exemplifies the real ugliness that is being an ignorant, spoon-fed teenager in the modern society. As cheesy and cheap as it was I'm almost more satisfied having to not watch something which successfully glorifies tyranny as it was....
What's good is you can take this and decide who rules the social heiarchy, in the deep, dark, unruly depths of High School!
Yeah this was the "Plan 9" of teen movies. The kids looked like they could act if given some direction, and the girls were hot, but the "movie" was a wreck. It seriously looked like an episode of Power Rangers with blood & w/o the funny suits. The 4 could have promising careers though, they all seemed to be doing their best.
Everybody but the 4 kids and their lab coat wearing helper were like cardboard cutouts. The "bad" teens at the school were total cartoons. I haven't seen such unbelievable antagonist characters since "School Ties".
The effects, for a low budget film, looked surprisingly good. Now these were BAD effects...but for BAD effects, they looked like GOOD bad effects. It's hard to explain.
The extra scene after the credits with those 2 girls doing that amazingly stupid cheer pretty much put the cherry on top. They didn't even have a clapper for the take, and the director had to do this alligator clapping thing with his arms.
Pathetic.
It sucked, plain and simple.
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I completely agree with you on this one. I mean really, this flick had to be the worst ever. Where the heck are these films distributed? I've wasted too many words already. From the origin of their powers to the dumb cheerleaders at the end, horrible. AVOID THIS FILM!
shareI have to agree. It is more than obvious that these kids weren't hired for their acting talent. Nor was the cameraman hired for his camera work.
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All I can say to the writers, director(s) and producer(s) is:
I admire your ability to get paid for this.
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I don't mind silly high school horror flicks, I don't expect much, and this was mildly entertaining crap, but the see-saw camera and the flash editing was not only obnoxious, it was nauseating.
Also, when the kids got their powers, they returned to school suddenly as the best dressed kids there, how did that happen?
Maybe one of their new powers was an improved fashion sense.
In addition to the rock-a-bye camerawork and the hoof-handed editing, I thought that the acting, too, had an emetic quality. Frankly, I've seen better acting in "amateur" theatre.
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Have you noticed that in Shakespeare's plays soothsayers said the sooth, the whole sooth, and nothing but the sooth?
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LATER:
I just (re-)found a short story written in the mid-1940s dealing with the same idea of assorted psychic powers: telepathy, telekinesis, etc. I knew I'd encountered the idea somewhere before, I just needed to dig through my collection. I first read it some time in the 1960s.
I recommend the story "Lost Legacy" by Robert A Heinlein. The background is (of course) thoroughly dated (after 60 years!). However I think you'll find the story, the treatment of the idea — and the consequences — to make for a very interesting and intriguing story.
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