Rad | | Cast : | Lori Loughlin, Bart Conner | | Director : | Hal Needham | | Studio : | | | Format : | | | Released Date : | , 1986 | | DVD Released Date : | July 22, 2003 | | Language : | | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | Release the DVD!! | Content
 | When I first rented the movie in 1986 I was 6. I'm now 25. Still think the movie is great but the VHS thing just for that movie needs to go out the window. I think all the lovers of this movie deserve to have the dvd released. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | My favoraite 80s movie | Content
| As a true child of the 80s, this movie sums up my childhood of trying to pop the longest wheelie on my Huffy. It is simply a shame that this gem of a movie is not in DVD format. It has been over a decade since I have seen it, but I can specificaly remember the scene at the school dance where they ride their bikes on the gym floor to the theme song "Send me an Angel". I was actually able to find this song (bootlegged) on Napster in college back when music was still free. I also remember the final scene when the main character actually stops and waits for his adversary on this insane BMX course full of lethal pits and what not. RAD is on up there with The Goonies and Flight of the Navigator. The new movies of this era are all about digitally altered actors and special effects, the actors in this movie were actually doing these tricks! I still have scars from trying to replicate many of their stunts. DVD! DVD! DVD! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 29, 2005 | | Summary | RAD | Content
| AWESOME movie! I have been looking for this movie for years. I remember seeing it when it came out in '86. I hope that it will be released soon! This movie got me into BMX. I can't wait to see it all over again! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 06, 2005 | | Summary | Cultural time piece, otherwise corny | Content
| When I was 13 I loved this movie; I'm not 13 anymore.
Yet even when I was 13, it didn't make a lot of sense to me. What kind of race were they in? Were they trying to do more tricks, go faster, etc? It was sort of a weird combo freestyle/racing course that does not really exist (or it did not then) in "professional" BMXing. It was clearly an attempt to hybrid these two distinct BMX bike disciplines. But would you combine soccer and football to make a movie? Or cricket and baseball?
Not only that, the story is just plain corny - probably like many movies of its time and genre. I will agree that for those interested in that biking, it was a fun film.
Above all, the opening and closing credits - real freestyling, is fantastic with catchy music. I would happily watch it even now.
It's too bad this DVD is not currently available; it's a good timepiece and trip down memory lane. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 06, 2005 | | Summary | a must have | Content
| you have my vote for the release, the movie was simply "awesome". |
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