When I first took this tape out of my surprise retro-box, full of yet-to-watch 70s and 80s movies, I was looking for a fun moral-less comedy.
What I found is a mildly amusing comedy, yet one also fully draped in a dubious moral message.
In short, "Pinball Summer" tells the story of four teens - two guys and two girls - looking to have some summer fun after their last day of school. Sounds cool? Sadly, the main characters are hot-headed, egoistical and spoilt children, who will attack (verbally and sometimes physically) anything and everything to get their fun : biker gangs, rich people, old ladies, fat people, policemen and firemen, disco dancers, etc.
As long as you can prove you look average and wear standard clothes and 80s hair, you have the right to make fun of everyone else, and no one can get back at you without incurring your rightful wrath.
Property destruction is also of their domain. Throwing things on the road, stealing, ruining and drowning vehicles, damaging properties : no one will ever get back at "the normals" for the 100,000$ loss they caused.
Making "normality" crush everything else is not fun, and it felt like being shoved in the following message : be like us or die with our laughing ringing in your ears.
These "Pinball Summer" people would have been "villains" in many other films.
An OK addition for any 80s comedy collectors. Otherwise, stay away from this ideological drivel.
What I found is a mildly amusing comedy, yet one also fully draped in a dubious moral message.
In short, "Pinball Summer" tells the story of four teens - two guys and two girls - looking to have some summer fun after their last day of school. Sounds cool? Sadly, the main characters are hot-headed, egoistical and spoilt children, who will attack (verbally and sometimes physically) anything and everything to get their fun : biker gangs, rich people, old ladies, fat people, policemen and firemen, disco dancers, etc.
As long as you can prove you look average and wear standard clothes and 80s hair, you have the right to make fun of everyone else, and no one can get back at you without incurring your rightful wrath.
Property destruction is also of their domain. Throwing things on the road, stealing, ruining and drowning vehicles, damaging properties : no one will ever get back at "the normals" for the 100,000$ loss they caused.
Making "normality" crush everything else is not fun, and it felt like being shoved in the following message : be like us or die with our laughing ringing in your ears.
These "Pinball Summer" people would have been "villains" in many other films.
An OK addition for any 80s comedy collectors. Otherwise, stay away from this ideological drivel.