{"id":20731,"date":"2016-05-19T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20731"},"modified":"2016-05-19T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:25:56","slug":"zapped-1982-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/zapped-1982-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Zapped! (1982) (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ZappedDVD\"<\/a>It\u2019s pretty fun to see Scott Baio and Willie Aames team up in what would be one of their many endeavors in \u201cZapped!\u201d Baio was fresh off of \u201cHappy Days,\u201d Aames was off of \u201cEight is Enough,\u201d they were a few years away from the comedy gold of \u201cCharles in Charges\u201d and decades away from being the douche bags we know today. It was an interesting time where Baio and pal Aames delved in to the sex comedy. \u201cZapped!\u201d attempts to be as outrageous as silly as possible, but only really ends as a somewhat mediocre comedic effort that doesn\u2019t do much with the premise it hands us.<\/p>\n

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If you don\u2019t think about it too hard, \u201cZapped!\u201d works within the confines of eighties comedies (what eighties movie would be complete without an appearance by Eddie Deezen?) and that\u2019s about all it does. It\u2019s bizarre how \u201cZapped!\u201d comes off initially like \u201cThe Computer Wore Tennis Shoes\u201d feeling like a late seventies era Disney Television movie, but once the clothes start to rip off, and the flesh is bared, it feels slightly tacked on. It almost feels like the sex comedy aesthetic was injected at the last minute in what was probably a PG-13 comedy about a geeky science kid with super powers.<\/p>\n

Regardless, the sexual elements don\u2019t improve or detract from the quality of \u201cZapped!\u201d as it\u2019s all fairly routine and clich\u00e9 misadventures once character Barney garners telekinetic powers after a lab accident. Once he realizes he can move things with his mind, he begins abusing them to help him in sports, and to help him gamble. His friend Peyton is also unashamed in asking Barney to commit certain tasks for him, including winning at a gambling function. Barney inevitably begins to fall for the more morally upright Bernadette who feels Barney\u2019s use of his powers is corrupting his personality.<\/p>\n

\u201cZapped!\u201d performs a lot of meandering here and there, focusing on Barney\u2019s relationship with Bernadette, an odd sub-plot involving his teachers hooking up on a blind date, and Barney\u2019s abilities that range from silly to creepy time and time again. To make the film even more unusual, there\u2019s a full fledged spoof of the finale of \u201cCarrie\u201d in the climax, where Barney\u2019s incident with a stray watermelon prompts him to unleash his powers and begin telekinetically tearing clothes off of fellow classmates attending the prom. One of the many post-\u201cPorky\u2019s\u201d comedies that drops the sex comedy template over science fiction, \u201cZapped!\u201d is a solid diversion with some occasional giggles to be mined.<\/p>\n

The Blu-Ray and DVD from Olive Films doesn\u2019t come with any special features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s pretty fun to see Scott Baio and Willie Aames team up in what would be one of their many endeavors in \u201cZapped!\u201d Baio was fresh off of \u201cHappy Days,\u201d Aames was off of \u201cEight is Enough,\u201d they were a few years away from the comedy gold of \u201cCharles in Charges\u201d and decades away from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[219,349,874,906,1331,1212],"class_list":["post-20731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collectors-den","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-sex-comedy","tag-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20734,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20731\/revisions\/20734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}