Was this movie written by a child? Dumb and Cheesy.

It was a parody of an 80s movie... and so what if it came out at the same time as the movies it was parodying. You can do that.

If you don't have comedy points like the mother not being able to cook or the dad not knowing the slang what do you have? Whatever they are, could we not go "[comedy point]! Ha! Get it?" about those as well? Give me an example of a comedy you prefer and I'll see if I can do it.

Yes the comedy's broad, personally I prefer that. I like the fact that the humour is general, that the script has many targets not just one or two. I like the fact that there are lots of side-plots like the East Asian car-racing brothers. I think this makes the film funnier and more enjoyable overall.

And yes it was written by a kid, sort of. Savage Steve started writing down the material for the story when he was a teenager who'd been dumped by his girlfriend like Lane was. He tried to kill himself in ludicrously unsuccessful ways like Lane did. A paperboy really sat over the road and kept demanding his $2. Steve didn't write a script or think in terms of a film at that point, but the basic material was from when he was still a kid. Kind of more authentic than most of these 'high school' movies which are written by people even older than the actors.

Better Off Dead interview with Savage Steve Holland: http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000134.php

"Was this movie written by a child?" Actually, yes it was. Much of the subject matter comes from Savage Steve Holland's adolescent journal. How much of your childhood writing material was turned into cult-classic movies that grossed 10 million dollars?

It was written for the lowest common idiots just like You Can't Do That on Television.

No judgment, but you have no soul.

Tough luck, chinless