That was an excellent one.

i must have seen a different film!!

Absolutely Brilliant!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. But he has a major dilemma, should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career........I don't know what is worse. Downey Jrs utterly dreadful performance, or seeing Uma Thurman in a light I've never seen before, wooden and god ugly.The film itself? It's the pits. Hall has all the screen presence of a half digested pineapple, and considering he was hilarious in Weird Science, in just a couple of years, his talent got up and left him.Gleason is the best thing in this, channelling his Breakfast Club principal slightly and delivering a decent performance.The film isn't funny, it grates after 30 minutes, and if you stick with it, because it's an eighties movie with two big stars so it must get better, prepare yourself, its torture.But I bet Anthony Michael Hall watches this constantly screaming at the TV 'I was bigger than you Downey Jr!!! Bigger!!!!'

You'd think a movie with that kind of title (taken from a song) would be a silly, over-the-top movie. Well, it is, but not in a good way. Is Johnny a troublemaker, or just a troubled kid? The movie reunites Anthony Michael Hall with his "Breakfast Club" co-star Paul Gleason, in case you never figured that out. The characters have no chemistry and there's no real story. It doesn't make you laugh, only chuckle. And it's certainly not even trying to be a good movie, much less a funny one. If there is any believable scene, it's towards the end of the movie, where everybody starts fighting after Johnny's announcement. What is the point of this assembly, anyway? From what I could tell throughout the movie, it didn't seem Hall ever decided on one. Talk about a cheat!** out of ****

This film is about various colleges doing unscrupulous acts in order to attract a talented American football player to study in their college."Johnny Be Good" has a bad plot and has poor acting. I normally like Uma Thurman, but her role in this is small and dispensable. There are so many implausible scenes which are so bad that they become funny. It is so bad that it becomes entertaining. For example, where did the well dressed cheerleaders come from in the spontaneous game in front of Georgia's house? And that flamboyant outfit Johnny goes home with is ridiculously bad. Leo Wiggins, played by Robert Downey Jr., has very little screen time, but he is memorable role in a bad way. He is so crazy that he is painful to look at.Maybe it was a good film by 80's standards, but watching it 20 years down the line, it has become an embarrassing joke.

There is so much wrong with Johnny Be Good, I can't believe there was one viewer that actually had something good to say about it. And I'm an idiot for having bought this garbage. In short, the story goes like this. Senior football player is the highlight of recruiters all over, and they all want Johnny to play for their school. He spends time, though, going to two schools who promise the most crap--money, girls, beer, whatever he wants. His coach, on the other hand, is going to blackball him if Johnny doesn't go to the school that his coach tells him because he's expecting a coaching job out of it. Meanwhile, there's an NCAA investigation going on into recruitment procedures. Blah...blah...blah...Johnny realizes what a jerk he's been (in reality, I don't think a guy like that would ever say no to incredulous amounts of material pampering) and says no way. Then, he gets some sense. The end. First of all, we have the lame story of some stud high school football player enjoying the cut throat recruitment of some hot shot colleges who promises every kind of material incentive to get him to go to school. Perhaps the film is making a valid point about the disgusting lengths colleges go to to get players on their team (a cost allocated to the rest of the students, no less). However, the movie, which plays out like a baffling unrealistic boyish fantasy of wild romps and beer busts, absorbs any sort of validity the story might have.And my copy of the video is sure to notify viewers that more sexually suggestive footage had been added than was in the original release, like any of it is worth watching anyways. Not only is the story boring watching Johnny Walker go from school to school to be pampered, but the "hero" of the story is unbearably obnoxious. It figures. Somewhere after his great performances in John Hughes's movies, Anthony Michael Hall seemed to turn into an unlikeable teenager, and one that never really looked like he enjoyed acting in any of the movies he was in (see Out of Bounds). Johnny Walker is some jerk kid who expects everyone to just fall in love with him. One of those characters where, no matter what he does, everything will work out his way. (Just look at the sequence where he takes revenge on his coach--what the hell are we supposed to make of that? Especially when everyone's attitude is so apathetic). Robert Downey, Jr. is an even bigger waste, and also a confusion, babbling the most idiotic lines throughout the movie. He's hardly interesting, much less funny. And, Uma Thurman, who plays Johnny's girlfriend, Georgia, doesn't seem to get anything but crap from her boyfriend.Johnny Walker epitomizes the kind of kids I hated in high school. Jocks who always got a free ride, and walked around with a holier than thou attitude like the rest of the world should kiss their feet because they knew how to toss around a football. And he's supposed to be our hero? I can learn to like 80s teen trash, but this movie is just god awful.