Mes démêlés avec le diable

this was one of the funniest movie ever......if you have not see this movie, then you missing a lot. having the "renaissance man"Robert townsend is such a great thing and cowboy lady Mrs. fairchild too ain't bad neither. Josh zuckerman was the perfect fit for brendan willy"s role.this movie was grotesque. first i thought the movie was just going to be about a teenage boy who couldn't talk to girls or make friends like weird science.but the movie turn out to be "off the hook" instead. the director of the movie put a great effort to the film and also have the right people..actors and actresses... for the perfect role.................Robert townsend, Morgan fairchild, and Josh zuckerman are good actors.........way to go guys!!!!

This was a decent movie at the very least. The producers of the

movie made a great choice in not making this a serious movie.

They were able to put a lot of comedic effect into this film. It was

full of great lines and was a lot of fun to watch.

i'm not sure why i watched this movie. something about Morgan Fairchild and Gregory Hines as a comic duo should have told me right away that this was disastrous, but it was worth watching for one reason and one reason alone. it is without a doubt the worst made for tv movie ever made. and you can bet your ass that that's saying something. and i know what you're thinking. this asshole hasn't seen every mftvm ever made, how does he know it's the worst. WELL, you jerk, i'll tell you why. i have a theory that made for tv movies were invented for the sole purpose of spreading propaganda. there's no art here. HBO might be the only example of "attempted" art, but the only mftvm's you'll see outside of home box office are cheesey, tear-jerkers. like a 2 hour version of "lifestories: families in crisis" except about abortion and drugs and crazy boyfriends who club your daughters with chopping blocks. if anyone is familiar with the story of Faust, you'll know that it's very dark and gothic. the story is so bad it's almost a parody. first of all, to even watch this film without gagging you have to consider it possible for a goofy-looking, short, shrimpy nerd can attain popularity and schoolyard supremacy by simply slicking up his hair and losing the glasses. yeah, i know what you're thinking, but bear with me here. that presents the least of my problems with the film. the real problem here is that none of these characters are real! the mother constantly sobbing when she realizes that the actor Joe Mantegna is married and therefore her son can't sell his soul to the devil is funny for about three billionths of a second. when she doesn't stop you start to wonder. hey...i'd like to f*** nicole kidman. but i never will. why am i crying?!!?! it makes no goddamn sense. and the ending is actually a rip off of shrek. the boy who tried to hard to earn some girl named Twyla's approval discovers that she sold her soul to the devil for the same reason. all of a sudden everybody's selling their soul to the devil. did i mention that gregory hines is one of the worst actors of all time. no? he is. he makes morgan fairchild look like meryl streep. this review is sort of running out of steam. in closing i take solace in the fact that there isn't a studio in the world that would fund this project. thank you and have a wonderful day.

I caught this movie one sunny sunday afternoon ( why do people always watch tv on dreary ones, i wonder ) with the intent of giving it some glances while doing something else. The plot, as amusing as it may be, seemed too weak to sit through doing nothing. I was right. The modern presentation of the underworld is just silly, the characters as flat as roadkill & the ending particularly weak because it had but to string the twists together. Some points make this watchable : Robert Towsend(though he's most hindered by his lines), the metamorpfosis tricks played on the Kid, and the joke during the end credits - predictable within 4 seconds of course, but still a nice effort.

I Was a Teenage Faust can be described as surreal... and weird. But I had a good time watching it, teenagers tempted by the devil (played by Robert Townsend) to gain popularity, fame, good looks and the other superficial things. for the family-oriented families, moral lessons included!

All in all, it was a nice film. I have no negative comments whatsoever, because as long as I enjoyed the film, it IS a good one.