Getting Lucky

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.

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.

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.

My best friend wrote it and directed it and asked me to come over for free and do this stupid thing, oh, and yes I'm not an actor (could you tell? Micheal went on to do a bunch of these things and he actually lives off the money to this day! I think it cost about 3 grand to make. Anyhow, have fun peoples.. I'm Nubbs by the way. My best friend wrote it and directed it and asked me to come over for free and do this stupid thing, oh, and yes I'm not an actor (could you tell? Micheal went on to do a bunch of these things and he actually lives off the money to this day! I think it cost about 3 grand to make. Anyhow, have fun peoples.. I'm Nubbs by the way.

Getting Lucky, a largely inept and amateurish exploitation flick, follows the adventures of a stereotypical high school nerd in love with the pretty blonde (and bland) cheerleader. Upon finding a leprechaun in a beer bottle, our hero goes on a series of tepid misadventures on the way to the obligatory happy ending. The film is only worth watching for the memorable, eye-opening scene in which the foibles of the incompetent leprechaun accidentally bring the cheerleader to a shattering orgasm in the middle of history class (Lezlie Z. McCraw is at least as convincing as Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally). Beyond this, expect a ridiculous, insipid waste of time with a vomit-inducing final reel that throws in everything from a barbarian to a nest of hornets.