Touches You

Sorry, this movie sucks

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

"Meet the Deedles" is the ultimate groovy 90's filmography dude! Well, not really. It's one of those movies that wants to be like "Wayne's World" and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" so bad that it becomes like a fossil in cinematic history. The film might have had an audience once, but those were all 11 to 17 year old boys growing up in the 1990's and have since grown up. Just look at the cover of that VHS tape, and you'll immediately know that this is going to be irritating and not the list bit funny. It's as ridiculous and stupid as you can expect from a title like "Meet the Deedles".It's about two surf-loving free spirits that reject authority, Phil Deedle (Paul Walker) and his brother Stew Deedle (Steve Van Wormer). After being kicked out of school for what they perceive as being "Too Cool", they are sent to a boot camp to be straightened out. Instead, their vehicle takes a wrong turn and they end up In Yellowstone National Park! From there you can see where everything is going to go. They meet the authority figure of the park, they run around him while he screams impotently. If this movie follows formula, they're going to screw up something big, like destroy Old Faithful, but prove to everyone that with surfing and the power of being an awesome slacker with no real responsibilities, you can make everything go right in the end. Tell me when my prediction turns out to be off.Looking back at this movie fills me with shame. I was the target audience for this film when it came out. I was 11 years old in 1998 and you bet if I had seen the film at that time, I would have thought it would have been hilarious! Thankfully, I've grown up. Nowadays I empathize more with the people who want to destroy these fools than the surfers themselves. It's almost funny in an ironic way, like watching a map of the earth as the center of the universe, and a flat earth at that! The difference is that this movie lasts 93 minutes and looking back and laughing at our ancestors, that takes just a few moments. Without any brains, Interesting twists on the formula and a fair bit of annoying moments, "Meet the Deedles" is best left forgotten. (On VHS January 31, 2012)

Well, I think the common theme from the reviews I've read is that kids love this movie. Which is not surprising since I believe that is what Disney's target market is.And if you are a Paul Walker fan like myself, you will watch and enjoy the movie just for the eye candy.This film is brainlessly funny or funnily brainless. Whatever. I got what I wanted from this film. I enjoyed it.I knew that there will be slapstick comedy. That the humor will be childish. But I don't care.I recommend this movie for those who felt like their brain has just been bludgeoned after a long hard day attending meetings, discussions, brain storming sessions, analyzing and calculating numbers... you get the picture.

Ocean meets Mountain in the 1998 Disney "lost but forgotten" live action feature "GREET THOSE BEATLES" (better yet, "MEET THE DEEDLES"), a story about two Hawaiian surf bums (Phil and Stew) who have played hooky from school on their first day of adulthood, and since they became expelled (from near the end of high school; what a shame), father Deedle punished the boys by sending them to a boot camp in Wyoming. Just when they couldn't attend but had to camp the hard way by someone "who got hit by the ugly stick," they crashed through a campground, found someone's clothes, and turns out, they have become ranger recruits of the Yellowstone National Park Service!!!!!Now, don't let the title fool you, because it's not a Beatles movie. No, you won't hear "Help!!!!!" or "I wanna hold your hand!!!!!!" here (although the chicken lip reader at one point called the Deedles "the Beatles"), but this review shows that movies that have become dust in the wind can be returned to their natural form once again. This was shown in a heavily edited form on the Old, and one time in spring '04, the New Disney Channel, and in what looked like the original form on local TV, and this movie is perfect any way. So why hate on a movie so bad and so dull when you can learn to love it?????

I'm sorry, but this movie is hilarious. I don't know why, and I'm reasonably embarrassed by finding it humorous, but something is just great about it.I'd rent it just to see the nurse say, "And, I hand washed your panties!" to that guy from Varsity Blues.This high quality film has an abundance of excellently quotable absurd Deedle-lingo, so grab a pen and paper why you watch.Also, wait out the credits for a great song featuring Rivers Cuomo of Weezer fame.