Weird Science

Weird Science. 1985 Universal Pictures.
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell Smith, Bill Paxton
Director: John Hughes
Buy Weird Science as a single disc, or as part of the High School Flashback Collection with The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, both from Amazon.

The story of two of the bigger silver screen teenage nerds this side of Napoleon Dynamite, Gary Wallace (Hall) and Wyatt Donnelly (Mitchell-Smith) are just as unpopular and unable to meet girls as you could expect them to be. One night, inspired by Frankenstein airing on TV, they use Wyatt's computer to design the perfect woman, feeding multiple images (including one from David Lee Roth's "Just a Gigolo" music video) into it, and they also hack into a U.S. government mainframe machine to get their desired results. A freak electrical storm hits just as the simulation finishes, and the boys can't turn off the computer.

Out steps "Lisa" from a red fog in the washroom, and she takes Gary and Wyatt under her wing, turning them from nerds into studs. The boys party down in a blues club, stand up to Wyatt's older brother Chet (Paxton), and throw a huge party. "Lisa" never sleeps with her creators, but by film's end, they are both seemingly on the path to relationships with two girls their own age.

A little story about how I ended up buying this movie. A long time ago, at work, I was standing with a coworker when he suddenly started seeing the theme music to Weird Science, as performed by Oingo Boingo. So, I asked him "Did they play that one [over the PA]?"
"No, but that's my favorite movie of all time! Love it!"
His review was good enough for me. It was a blind buy as soon as I could find a copy.

Weird Science is your typical '80s teenage sex comedy, and you know you wouldn't have it any other way. Highly recommended, and damned funny at the same time.