The Whatever Happened to That Guy Cast
One thing about the changing of the decade is that people still wanted the Corey. Sadly, the Coreys were so high on drugs we had to settle for hybrids. The hybrid here is Bradley Gregg… which in case you didn’t know, has 5 kids. I shall now share with you their names. Zion, McAbe, Braverijah (Bria), Galilee, and Jemima. Yes. Interesting. McAbe? Was that an attempt to start a new food item at McDonalds? One can only wonder about such things. “Yes, I’d like a McAbe with a side of fries.”
He’s our star but we have a few others of interesting merit. Malcolm McDowell is not one to ever turn down a bad movie. Pam Grier is here as well and sadly, the only tits she shows in this one are of the robotic kind. Which brings me to the movie.
You see, in 1999, schools have become war zones. The police won’t even intervene they have gotten so bad. Almost every kid has a weapon and I don’t mean knives, I’m talking RPGs and M-16s. They are all high on drugs but still manage to make it to school. One only has to wonder how dumb things have gotten for our future. No one is forcing them to go… and yet, they do. This was undoubtedly the hardest part for me to wrap my brain around. If I was 15, high on “the edge,” equipped with an assault rifle and a downright badass gangster… I sure as shit, ain’t going to school! This is the future of course so perhaps things change.
The only good death scene
So what the hell do we do? Well, let’s get Stacy Keach’s opinion on this matter. He played a great corrupt cop next to Cheech & Chong who smokes so much pot he turns himself into a lizard. So who better to turn the tide of school/gang warfare? He’s got my vote. Hell, I’d have probably voted for him in the last election. He plays a “Doctor” who has come up with a great plan. If you can’t get a human to teach, why not get a robot to do it? And why stop at just a plain old robot. Why not get a robot that was used for wartime combat. One that can grow to think. Now, multiply that by 3. Yes, 3 killer robots.
Now this movie, well… it kind of sucks. It’s really not that good at all. It doesn’t bring anything new to the table. Class of 1984 did things much better. I did not think this was going to be a sequel but shit, I hate the one liners. When McAbe’s father kills the history teacher robot, our hero sputters… wait for it… “He’s history!” or when he immolates the chem teacher with a Bunsen burner… wait for it… “She’s toast!” That’s just bad dialog right there. This is of course the downside of producing to many hybrid Coreys, they come out worse than fax sent one to many times.
In case you hadn’t figured it out. These robots go rogue and start killing. Had there been a Liberal Arts teacher, things might have gone differently but this movie doesn’t allow for such radical ideas. The first robot to kill is the Physical Ed teacher, he looks a lot like Howie Long. This guy has been in a shit load of movies/shows and like some of the other cast here, you go, “Hey, it’s that guy!” He takes down some punk holding a gun. Fair enough. No harm, no foul.
Do those come in hot pink?
But then our other “Hey, it’s that guy!” history teacher totally wastes a guy in colorful spandex. He did have it coming. If you are claiming a set, you best not be in spandex attire. The thing about spandex guy I liked so much is that he was an evil Colombian drug lord in Delta Force 2. I’m a huge Delta Force fan, so I was a little sad to see him go… but not those pants.
Pam Grier the chem teacher doesn’t do much in this one. I was a little sad by that. She asserts herself in class one time but that’s about it. You would think in 1999 killer robots would be treated with equality in the movies. Our future is a bleak one.
So through all of this, the robots manage to start a gang war. They kill McAbe’s uncle (young brother to our hero) and a shit storm of boring violence starts.
Eventually the gangs realize that they aren’t the problem. It’s the teachers! Yes, kids roaming the streets murdering people on a daily basis and the teachers are the problem. So they band together and win. I mean, only 3 people in this movie survive but they win. Let’s just hope there was some good drugs waiting back at home because they will need them.