Totally Awesome

Totally Awesome

Where the dancing is dirty, the pink is pretty, and the foot runs loose.

Directed by Neal Brennan

Produced by Awesome Productions, The Weinstein Company

200694 min4.9 / 10

A gleeful, high-energy '80s parody that lovingly spoofs teen movie tropes with dancing, romance, and earnest charm.

Do you prefer to wax on or wax off? Preacher won't let you dance? Well then, put Baby in the corner and come on down, 'cause VH1 is bringing back more of the '80s you love in this feature-length film, Totally Awesome. The Gundersons have just moved across the country and the kids - Charlie, Lori, and Max - are trying their best to acclimate themselves into a new school and all kinds of dilemmas therein: the need to dance, the pitfalls of young love, the quest for popularity, scientific genius and of course the quirky but loveable Japanese gardener. Totally Awesome takes all your favorite '80s-flick mainstays and weaves them into the biggest and baddest plotline ever conceived. Tot say it is radical would be an understatement.

Questions people ask

  • Is Totally Awesome scary? No. Less frightening than 98% of films.

  • Is Totally Awesome sad? No. Less sad than 97% of films.

  • Does Totally Awesome end with hope? Yes, very. More hopeful than 97% of films.

  • Is Totally Awesome easy watching? Yes, very. More comforting than 95% of films.

  • Is Totally Awesome violent? Barely. Less violent than 86% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

18/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity71

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise5

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love4

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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