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Question to viewers of the movie

posted 9 years ago by theblackestmagic
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This question is directed at adult viewers who first saw this movie during their adolescence. Do you still find Zapped to be entertaining and watchable at this stage in your adult life, or do you now find the film to be much too juvenile and cheesy for any repeatable viewings? I personally still find a certain amount of enjoyment and (dated)charm to be had from seeing the film nowadays in spite of, of course, how juvenile and cheesy it obviously is.

So what about all you other adults out there? How do you feel and/or think about Zapped now?

"Life IS pain highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something".

[–] LAtvGuy 9 years ago

I watched this last night for the first time in many years. I'm 40 now. As a kid, my brother and I watched this on VHS constantly. Before I started watching it again, I asked myself the same question you posed. I've tried revisiting other favorite films from when I was a kid, and often stop it shortly after starting, thinking it was stupid and a waste of time. I actually watched this entire film without stopping it. I didn't laugh, but it was a fun revisit to my younger days. Plus, I got some of the humor that I didn't catch when I was a kid.

[–] saint-21 9 years ago

I first saw this as a 10 year in spring of 1983 when my uncle rented it on video, and loved it. then a few months later it came on cable and was on all the time. so I recorded it off the movie channel , me and my brother loved it. I was hooked showed to all my friends who didn't have cable and it was a real highlight of my youth, great movie and I liked scott baio and willie aames.
Now revisited in summer of 1990 and it was starting to look dated and I could see that willie aames was not a great actor, it still had some appeal but the effects and those sound effects were starting to sound cheesy. Now just got it on Blu-ray with a great transfer and like LAtvGuy above said, it was a nice revist and noticed some things I didn't get as a kid. I hate the 90's and 2000's comedy's to no end. so these early 80's movies I loved as a kid will always be my favs, in a world that was so much more different and innocent than it is in these dark times.. Another token, Zapped almost seemed like a disney movie with a little nudity, theres not even one use of the F word in it..

[–] krispykremekiller 8 years ago

It's definitely cheesy, but still enjoyable. The love relationship between the main characters has a late 70s/early 80s authenticity to it. The humor is slapstick, the acting not great, but somehow it's watchable. The nostalgia factor boosts it, I don't imagine my kids would find the movie funny.

[–] montgomerydou55 8 years ago

I saw the movie, and most of it disgusted me. Scatman Crothers' marijuana trip, for example. Willie Aames' character I would cheerfully abandon to ISIS as a hostage. The ruined prom scene would have convinced me, had I seen the movie as a high-school senior myself, to make three drastic decisions: Don't go to the movies any more; don't attend my OWN senior prom; don't even try socializing at all.

[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

Hell, I didn't like it when it first came out. I was part of the target demographic, and I thought it was juvenile then.