Getting Lucky

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.

I love socially irresponsible teen comedies from the 80's, and to my mind, the cheesier, the more low-budget, and the more unknown the cast, the better. This Troma-distributed nonsense is about a typically overaged high school loser (actually a typically good-looking actor with glasses and a bad haircut) who lusts after a pretty cheerleader. He finds a drunk leprechaun in an empty beer bottle who grants him three wishes (I thought it was genies who did that?)and uses them to try to get the girl. However, his three wishes quickly turn into a Monkey's Paw scenario as the incompetent genie, I mean leprechaun, fouls everything up.

This is a typically raunchy movie. But it's not raunchy in a funny way for the most part, but instead it's raunchy in the most random, bizarre way imaginable. Like other reviewers, I probably first saw this on "USA, Up All Night", but since that was network TV, they certainly would have had to cut out the most show-stopping scene here where the hero quite literally gets into his crush's panties as he finds himself, courtesy of the incompetent leprechaun, shrunk to a few millimeters and crawling around in her pubic hair, inadvertently bringing her to a loud orgasm as she sits in class! People were impressed years later when Spanish film auteur Pedro Almovodar did a similar thing in a fantasy sequence in "Talk to Her". Well, this piece of wonderfully fragrant, steaming celluloid crap had already been there and done that! Of course, the special effects here (with "special" in this case used in the same way that it is in "Special Olympics") are ridiculously unconvincing, but at least the whole thing does culminate in a mass female shower scene.

I can't say the much good about the acting, including the miscast lead Steven Cooke or the the actor playing the leprechaun, whose drunkenness might have been a convenient way to explain why he couldn't even maintain a convincing Irish brogue. The girl, one Lezlie McCraw, was never in anything else before or since this movie, and obviously didn't maintain much dignity here, but she strangely seems to have used a body double for most of her nude scenes, which serves to make this movie even more disjointed and weird. Still, I liked this better than many much more high-profile teen sex comedies like "Risky Business" (and at least it isn't responsible for loosing Scientologisy extraordinaire Tom Cruise on the world). This is OK I guess.

A great film that needs to be reproduced. A hard movie to find, if you get a hold of it you will be in for a treat. The shrinking sequence is great!! A movie the whole family can enjoy

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.

Back some 10 plus years ago, USA had late-nite movie showings, on I think Saturday nights...it may have been Friday, Saturdays and Sundays, but it's been so long I forget. Anywho, it was called USA Up All Night, and it show-cased some of the worst, some of the best, and some of the best "so-bad-it's-good" flicks out there. From amazing flicks like The Evil Dead and The Toxic Avenger series to movie's that are most probably crap like Loose Screws and Frogtown 2. Nevertheless what movie they were showing there was an audience, a very select audience who ate everything that USA Up All Night dished out right up. And the movie that I remember from way back in the day that truly left an impression on my fragile little mind was the flick Getting Lucky.

Getting Lucky revolves around a dweeby loser, who sucks at acting, I mean who's fallen for a hot cheerleader. Obviously with his loser status there's no way on Earth he'll snag her. One day while on his routine recyclable bottle hunt he finds a bottle with a little Leprechaun stuck inside. Well, Lepkey the Leprechaun who resides in the beer bottle is Loser's way to get the girl. Lepkey's only way of getting out of his alcoholic prison is to grant our Hero/Loser three wishes. And with a side-plot of the school jock/ladies man being a jerk to Bill (our hero/loser), the movie brings even more cheesy entertainment to the table.

Getting Lucky is most known for the scene where Bill is shrunk down to microscopic (not really that small) size and gets stunk inside his love's, Krissi's, underpants. With him grabbing onto huge pubes, and Krissi's orgasmic reactions, it's a scene you'll most likely never forget. Getting Lucky is a cheesy flick, with cheesy acting, cheesy laughs and cheesy nudity. But this is where it also shines, at least the movie does deliver this cheesy, "so-bad-it's-good" feel. The ending wound up going on for far too long, with some whacked out dude who rides horses by standing with one foot on each comes into play, for god knows what reason. But it was so out of left field it was kinda funny.

I'm glad I revisited this piece of crap film, and it delivered almost exactly what I was hoping it would. It was goofy, had some nice forced sex, which actually was pretty realistic if you were getting some in high school, and moved along a decent enough pace. I just hoped Lepkey would've been in it more and was more of a drunk. He wasn't unfortunately, he was just helpful, that's it. But whatever, if you remember and loved USA Up All Night and have the ability to watch this flick, I'd urge you to do so.