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intereact!Actors: Yano Anaya, Curtis Armstrong, Frank Burt Avalon, John Cusack, and Elizabeth Daily
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Retail Price (not our price): $14.98
Release Date: 2002-07-16
Theatrical Release Date: 1985
Studio: Paramount
Run Time: 97 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Discs: 1
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
Lane Myer (John Cusack) is stuck in a personal hell. A compulsive, adolescent Everyman growing up in Suburbia, USA, not only does he fail to make the prestigious high school ski team (again), but his beloved sweetheart, Beth, also leaves him for Roy, the team's popular, arrogant captain. If this isn't bad enough, he's stuck with a mother who frighteningly experiments--rather than cooks--with food, a brother who builds rockets out of models, and a best friend so desperate for drugs that he settles for snorting powdered snow. Faced with these prospects, Lane opts to end it all ... until he comes up with a ridiculous plan to gain acceptance and win Beth back. Director Savage Steve Holland warps this simple, clichéd premise, letting his wacky imagination twist it into a fairly original, slightly dark, and completely hilarious '80s teen comedy. Not as serious a "suicide-attempt" movie as, say, Harold and Maude but just as funny, the film's more a collection of screwball sketches than a narrative. Holland livens the high jinks with surrealistic fantasy touches, including Jell-O that crawls, a hamburger that sings Van Halen, drawings that mock its creator, Japanese race-car drivers who only speak Howard Cosell, and a psychotic paperboy seeking blood over a missing $2. Cusack puts the whole thing on his shoulders and carries the insanity with another one of his touching, obsessively romantic performances, which, along with Say Anything, The Sure Thing, and One Crazy Summer, made him the quintessential (and appealing) personification of lovestruck adolescence and suffering. --Dave McCoy
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) One of the greatest 80's movies ever put on DVD. [Rating: 5 out of 5]
If you're looking for great one liners and witty dialogue... this is your movie. Drop what you're doing and buy it now. There are parts of this movie that just pop into your head and make you laugh no matter what you're doing. One of Cusack's best to date.2) You're better off not watching "Better Off Dead" [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I don't see any point in an extended review. The movie is a stinker, through and through. The jokes are either absurd or lame. The script had no original story to tell, although the original way of telling it was so unbelievable as to ruin any chance of connecting with or caring about any of the characters.I also do not understand the high ranking of this movie by others.3) Your DVD collection is not complete without this movie! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Better off dead one of the best teen movies ever made, a great performance by John Cusack. This is going to be a movie classic, a movie that every one should have in their collection!4) I find it funny that some people don't think this is funny [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I love this movie, it's hysterical, random, and just plain ridiculous. What's amazing is how funny it is while managing to maintain a PG rating. The soundtrack is awesome too...if you like 80s music. The guy who plays Booger from Revenge of the nerds is on here too. If you like to laugh your butt off, this one's right up there with Fast Times for cool/classic HS comedies. Worth checking out.5) this movie changed my life [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I saw this movie when I was about 10. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen. It made me want to play the saxophone, ski and drive a Camero. I managed to play the saxophone in school and go skiing a few times, but I haven't managed to get a Camero yet. I'm 30 & married with children now, so I guess I'll have to wait until my mid-life crisis to get one of those.