Getting Lucky

Okay, so it won't win any cinema awards. But there is something enticing about this movie. Perhaps i just like bad B-Movies that have a good plot and a few original moments in them. The shrinking sequence is worth watching the movie for! Quite original, funny, and just plain enjoyable to a select B-Movie audience. They need to release this on DVD!

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.

There are really bad movies, and movies that are so bad they are just great, and this is one of those movies. After seeing all the not so good comments i feel i have to stick up for this movie. The story is stupid, the acting is terrible, the plot doesn't exist, but it all makes for one really funny movie, and i get the feeling this was at least partly intentional. I've got it on DVD, maybe it has been edited for TV, some of the really funny bits are also comments that can be hard to hear. And anyone who didn't like anything about this movie must have skipped the credits, if you do see this movie make sure you read the credits all the way through, they had me in tears.

A great film that needs to be reproduced. A hard movie to find, if you get a hold of it you will be in for a treat. The shrinking sequence is great!! A movie the whole family can enjoy

I saw this movie once, at least 10 years ago, on 'USA Up All Night w/ Gilbert Godfried' and I still recall most of the movie. I remember it being really corny, but quite funny. This film is very much along the same lines as "Zapped" and "Revenge of the Nerds" with a 90's twist. And the scene where he shrinks and he's in the girl's underwear is a classic scene that sticks in my memory to this day. It's a tragedy that this movie is not available on DVD or even video, for that matter. I give it 8 out of 10 votes.