Joysticks

1983

Action / Comedy

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 28% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 28% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 3072 3.1K

video game nerd arcade sex comedy valley girl

Plot summary

A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.

Director

Greydon Clark Photo
Greydon Clark

Top cast

Joe Don Baker Photo
Joe Don Baker as Joseph Rutter
Logan Ramsey Photo
Logan Ramsey as Mayor Neville
Jon Gries Photo
Jon Gries as King Vidiot
Morgan Lofting Photo
Morgan Lofting as Mrs. Rutter
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
799.57 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 1
1.45 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dvs_danny 6 / 10

Classic Cult 80's

I purchased this movie on VHS on a sellout day at a video shop that was selling old movies... i think i payed $2. very original content, in the same line as under the mountain (director Peter Jackson) or brain dead... if you like this sort of thing then you will like this movie. yeah its about a bunch of kids who love their arcade, and some old idiots get their nephews to try to close down the video parlor. it comes down to a head to head challenge on an arcade game to decide if the video parlor will stay or be shut down... very funny looking at the style of cloths they wore, and typical of that era their are the punks and the squares
Reviewed by movieman_kev 5 / 10

Not sure that Joe Don Baking was still Walking Tall after this one

Joe Don Baker (along way from his Walking Tall glory days, he'd bounce back though) plays Joseph Rutter a father who is mad that his daughter is always hanging out at the local video arcade. He crusades to shut it down, but the management and the other local arcaders have something to say about that. Cue 'hijinks and misadventures' and gaming contests. This movie can and will trick you into thinking it's going to be a fun, if totally guilty pleasure, film at the beginning. The opening theme song is amazingly memorable in that '80's kitchy kind of way that you can't help but smile. The first, I don't know, maybe 10 minutes seem to reinforce that you'll be in for a forgotten classic of teen sex movies of yesterday. But then it goes wrong, horribly wrong. The jokes turn stale, everyone involved grows slightly more stupid (not that they were anywhere close to MENSA members before, but you know what I mean) And the movie just loses pretty much everything it may have had going for it, ceasing to be fun or even entertaining. I really wonder if there will ever be a good film centered around video games (in all likelihood not, but one can dream) My Grade: D Eye Candy:Kym Malin & Kim Michel get topless; Erin Halligan shows all
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