Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Aneesa Wardle
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Payno
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
mark.waltz
The likable Pamela Segall has a great screen presence but an amateurish script in this teen comedy of one young girl's discovery that her sex is changed simply because she had a desire to know what it was like to be a boy. She finds out one day that anatomy has played a dirty trick on her, and she is now a he. While her performance playing a boy makes sense if the character was pre-teen, there is no fooling me that there is no way to be a high school aged student. Yet, he is able to beat up the school bully, attract flirtatious high school girls and not drive parents Party Duke and John Glover to a mental institution. This film keeps changing its direction, with continuity a major factor in my dislike of the film as a whole. The one touching moment comes when Segall in boy attire comforts a wheelchair bound male student who confesses his homosexuality to him/her. It was a tender moment that I didn't quite suspect but it is badly plotted. A violent sequence is truly disturbing even if it is the bully getting his butt whipped. I finally gave up and moved onto better films. Perhaps the mid 1980s were too soon to tackle this subject. Its a nice try but a misfire just the same.
sevybaby
My friends and I used to go to our local video store before it got rid of its VHS, back in the day and we'd rent piles of video's always making sure that we only rented things that we hadn't seen and looked strange. Something special was in a bright pink box with a little doodle of a girl looking down her pants in shock and we knew right away that we had to rent it.This is not by any means one of those movies which will one day explode in popularity, but when my friends and I watched it, we couldn't believe what we were seeing it had us rolling on the floor laughing and we probably watched it about six times in one weekend because it amused us so much. If you love movies that really are quite stupid but in a fun guilty pleasure sort of way this is a definitely a movie for you, plus tiny Seth green is hilarious.
MorbidMorgan
" Boys have got it made ", or so reckons ' Willy Milly's ' Milly Niceman ( Pamela Segall ), a budding young astronomer whose life is dramatically changed thanks to an ancient spell and a rare solar eclipse. For Milly's deepest darkest desire is granted, enabling her to experience life as a boy and with all the correct equipment to do it! But Milly soon discovers that being ' Willy ' doesn't neccesarily mean that life gets any easier, especially when she comes up against the high school bully!Based on a story by Alan Friedman, Paul Schneider's offbeat ' Willy Milly ' is a truly hilarious fantasy comedy, one of those rare movies that can be enjoyed time and time again. Sharply scripted and impeccably acted, Segall delights in the lead role and she is offered terrific support by the likes of Patty Duke and John Glover as the Niceman parents and the lovely Mary Tanner as her dumbfounded best friend Stephanie.
Ken Adiv
This is one of those films i just have to watch again every now and then, because i like it, and because it's damn funny. It tells the story of a girl who wants to be a boy, and by magical means, her wish is granted. Some scenes had me rolling on the floor laughing.This film, besides being a great movie, also deals with some important teen issues in a very funny way, which i thought was great.One of my favorite feel good movies!10/10