Blast From The Past

Movie Title: Blast From The Past

Official Website (it might still work): Blast From The Past

Rating (out of 10): 6

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The Review:

Good Evening, I'm Robin McFetridge and welcome to Out and About's movie review of Blast from the Past, starring Brendon Fraser as Adam Webber, Alicia Silverstone as Eve Rustikov, and directed by Hugh Wilson. Blast from the Past is a Romantic Comedy about a polite naïve young guy- Adam who meets the worldly Eve. Boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back scenario blah blah blah... only this boy has lived his entire life (35 years) in a fallout shelter. He only enters 1998 LA for two weeks. Long enough to restock the food and power supply, and Oh yah, if he should meet a nice girl, bring back a wife. Mom says try to find a non mutant girl from Pasadena, because those Valley girls aren't so nice. Ok back to 1962 San Fernando Valley. Dad, Calvin Webber played by Christopher Walken is a retired genius on the eccentric side. He is completely obsessed with a nuclear holocaust and has built an elaborate fallout shelter under his home, designed exactly like the Webber home and patio, right down to the pink bedroom phone and patio furniture. Why do they need a phone, who are they going to call? The shelter is complete powered by yacht batteries and has a fully stocked warehouse and freezer of food and medical supplies, even a tank to raise fresh fish. The Webbers, Calvin and wife Helen, played by Sissy Spacek retreat to the shelter when Dad fears something horrible after hearing a speech by JFK. Just as they enter a jet crashes on their home, Calvin thinks they have dropped the bomb, so he locks the very pregnant Helen and himself in the shelter and sets the timer for 35 years Why asks Mom, So we won't try to get out. Adam is born and his genius father educates him in French, Latin, the classics, geography, history, politics, math and even how to Box, so he can defend himself. Mom gives Adam a daily dance lesson. And teaches him manors and politeness that would make a southern gentleman look like a New Yorker. Adam is given his fathers baseball collection, a whopping value in 1998 to over several thousand dollars. And Oh yah how pretty, Stock Certificates. Adam enters LA in search of a supermarket a liquor store and a Holiday Inn, he becomes confused and lost when he runs off from the adult book store, Dad told him it is full of poisonous gas. Adam meets Eve and she helps him out, and against her better judgment agrees to help Adam get the supplies he needs and well maybe not find a wife in two weeks, but she can help him get laid. The premise of the movie is cute and funny at times. The script is even plausible, the problem is Eve. She is mean to Adam; she is fickle and abusive. Her only redeeming quality is she is not a thief, and oh boy she could have really took this sweet guy. We are supposed to want them to get together, because she is after all, very pretty and the leading lady, but quite frankly Adam can do better and he deserves better. So now for the Out and About rating. I give Blast from the Past a six couches out of 10. It's funny and a great dancing scene and takes the tired old romance to new heights. Only lose Eve, she is trouble. This has been Robin McFetridge for Out and About, good night.