My review was written in October 1990 after watching the film on Raedon video cassette.
"Getting Lucky" is a low-grade example of the teen sex comedy.
Fantasy element of a leprechaun behaving like a genie in a bottle doesn't help sustain one's interest.
Steven Cooke is the nerd hero who finds Irish brogued young Garry Kluger in a beer bottle. Over 1,000 years old, he grants the boy three wishes, first of which is getting a date with beautiful cheerleader Leslie McCraw.
Cheap fantasy effects for Cooke shrinking are the excuse for some vulgar material that makes the original "Porky's" seem tasteful by comparison. Hopefully the folks at Disney sequelizing "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" won't get inspired by the annoying display of the miniaturized hero holding on for dear life in a forest supposedly representing the heroine's pubic hairs. These gags are more embarrassing than funny.
Poverty row staging of the final battle between Cooke and the jock villain Rick McDowell is pathetic.
"Getting Lucky" is a low-grade example of the teen sex comedy.
Fantasy element of a leprechaun behaving like a genie in a bottle doesn't help sustain one's interest.
Steven Cooke is the nerd hero who finds Irish brogued young Garry Kluger in a beer bottle. Over 1,000 years old, he grants the boy three wishes, first of which is getting a date with beautiful cheerleader Leslie McCraw.
Cheap fantasy effects for Cooke shrinking are the excuse for some vulgar material that makes the original "Porky's" seem tasteful by comparison. Hopefully the folks at Disney sequelizing "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" won't get inspired by the annoying display of the miniaturized hero holding on for dear life in a forest supposedly representing the heroine's pubic hairs. These gags are more embarrassing than funny.
Poverty row staging of the final battle between Cooke and the jock villain Rick McDowell is pathetic.