Review of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) by Michael W — 09 Mar 2015

Not a bad film, not bad at all.

A very young Kurt Russell who starred in one of my favorite films Breakdown, is playing out his Disney contract he had for a good 12 years. Before- this I saw him a lot younger in an Elvis Presley movie were he kicks him in the shin (It Happened at the World's Fair).

A group of teachers are having meeting with there Dean is he mopping and moaning about the credit and spending, one of the more nicer teachers suggest buying a new super computer to help cope with the rambunctious students. While this meeting is taking place a another meeting with the witty students of this private collage is also being held just outside. They are listening to them with an improvised bug, giving out the audio through a CB radio.

A benefactor, donates the school a old computer. Kurt Russel's.

Character ends up being electrified by the machine while he is replacing something in its machismo, luckily he is wearing tennis shoes that stops him from getting completely electrified like Kentucky fried chicken, but instead the encounter with the current of the super-computer he becomes a mega-genius, a superhero of sorts. The next day on a test that was deemed un-finish-able, in a hour and half time, is aced by his new found intellect, and funnily tries helping his girlfriend sitting next to him. He becomes mega famous like Bieber and goes through the trials of finding fame, he soon figures out it his friends that really matter.

Disney's Shaggy the Dog or Jungle 2 Jungle of the 60's. Although it is far better film then Shaggy the Dog, it comes close to Jungle 2 Jungle, because of the groovy care-free decade this film occupies.

A fun family film from the past that still has enough friendly character's but not goofy and moronic and a story that is both funny and interesting. It seems weird seeing Russel's iconic face, that is identical to how he looks in The Thing in this film. Looked like Tron: Legacy's CGI attempt at bringing back a young Jeff Bridge's back, which people give the film shit for. I think it helped to bring across an impossible story to tell, that only to be proofed a possibility- it just shows how far cinema has come with the advance in technology, shame it is only getting used for bad Transformers films and only being capsized on by Planet of the Apes reboot. A good film, anyway.