movie reviews: August 2008 Archives
When I was a kid, I loved all those old Disney movies. I'm not talking about the animated ones with princesses and dwarves, I'm talking about the ones about Medfield College and Dexter Riley. These movies starred a very young (and very smoking hot) Kurt Russell as the precocious Dexter. He drove a dune buggy. He wore mod 60s clothes. He and his friends always dabbled in science due to their great admiration for Professor Quigley, and Dexter always managed to screw up the science to accidentally give himself some sort of super power. And this super power would inevitably screw things up for the Dean Wiggins, the Dean of Medfield College, and/or A.J. Arno, the local sorta-seedy wealthy businessman played by Cesar Romero.
In "Now You See Him, Now You Don't," Dexter accidentally invented an invisibility spray potion. In "The Strongest Man in the World," Dexter accidentally discovers a new chemical, that when mixed with cereal, gives you superhuman strength. And, in "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" which is the point of today's post and the movie I just finished watching, Dexter tries to replace a burnt-out actuator in the ENIAC-sized computer that A.J. Arno donated to Medfield, and in doing so, managed to electrocute himself which somehow transferred all the computer's computational abilities into Dexter's brain.
I am going to skip all other details of the plot, and focus solely on the scene where Dean Wiggins and Professor Quigley take Dexter to the doctor after they start to realize that his intelligence skyrocketed overnight.
First, they check Dexter's eyes:
And when they look in Dexter's eyes with the scope, they see this:
Then they take an x-ray of Dexter's brain:
And the x-ray of Dexter's brain shows this:
And my favorite part of this other than how completely ludicrous this is....is the fact that my little 8 year old mind must have thought this seemed totally plausible.
In "Now You See Him, Now You Don't," Dexter accidentally invented an invisibility spray potion. In "The Strongest Man in the World," Dexter accidentally discovers a new chemical, that when mixed with cereal, gives you superhuman strength. And, in "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" which is the point of today's post and the movie I just finished watching, Dexter tries to replace a burnt-out actuator in the ENIAC-sized computer that A.J. Arno donated to Medfield, and in doing so, managed to electrocute himself which somehow transferred all the computer's computational abilities into Dexter's brain.
I am going to skip all other details of the plot, and focus solely on the scene where Dean Wiggins and Professor Quigley take Dexter to the doctor after they start to realize that his intelligence skyrocketed overnight.
First, they check Dexter's eyes:
And when they look in Dexter's eyes with the scope, they see this:
Then they take an x-ray of Dexter's brain:
And the x-ray of Dexter's brain shows this:
And my favorite part of this other than how completely ludicrous this is....is the fact that my little 8 year old mind must have thought this seemed totally plausible.
