This summer comes the hit sequal we've all been waiting for

Rad 2: Raise of 90's Kid

This movie has a kick ass soundtrack and Becky from 'Full House' extreme BMX riding...what's NOT to like?!

I think this movie was filmed through the same urine colored filter that all the modern FPS games are made with. At least now we know where it started.

why is everything yellow?
It's realistic!
also I knew he would throw up that sushi at the end

BLOODY SCREEN! SO REAL!
(Duty Calls reference)

I don't remember the last time I have tried sushi. But I am courious to taste it again.



Dammit, I shouldn't have watched him eat that sushi before supper *stomach growls*

It would have been a better soundtrack if they had used "Yakety Sax".

Just sayin'.

Um, the BMX biking? Seriously, BMX is barely one step above Razor scooters. I may be a little biased because I skateboard, but BMX tricks look really, REALLY lame to me.

It's like this: humping the bike vs making the plank on wheels you are balancing on spin 360 degrees under you, without touching it with your hands, and then landing on it and riding away. There's really no contest.

some of the stuff they make on BMX is really hard too... but yeah, Skateboard is more challenging, ahhh i remember when my ollie went wrong XD

there's actually some really impressive BMX stuff out there. Check this for instance,

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lqCyTM1bF6Q

wow you have no idea what you're talking about

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Ei0JlsFI4gw

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Xb8tEA-Vlfw& feature=related

remove the spaces, and yes I've done both skateboarding and BMX. BMX is easier to get into due to being less tightly constricted by the need for precision footwork and control (bigger tires help too), but that doesn't mean the higher tiers are any less skillful than pro skaters or that the harder tricks are somehow inferior. Eventually the weight of the bike makes it more difficult to work with than a skateboard in some regards. Thus even some of the visually less impressive tricks still take amazing amounts of control and coordination (such as a nose manual grind on an uneven surface or something). I'd say eventually BMX is more about working with the bike's weight, where as skateboarding is about controlling the board (which really boils down to footwork and reflexes, imo). I prefer doing BMX because it's less floaty than a board, but I find it's actually easier to pull off certain tricks on a board too. The guys in this movie mostly just suck by today's standards (which has a lot to do with the age of the movie I'm sure).

The plot?

Well, I looked it up on www.dictionary.com, and it turns out that "sequel" is NEVER spelled with an A.

I also looked up a word that begins with A...it ends with hole, take a guess what word it was.

Heh heh heh. Yeah. I thought I could control how annoyed I get when I see a spelling error, but I was wrong. Once again, I apologize. I will try harder to control myself.

...and if you can't handle a few spelling and grammatical errors now and then, you're not going have a good time here.

You're right. Sorry.

Duuuuuude!!! Rad is awesome man!

Holy Crap! Yes! YES! I'm pretty sure I recommended this a few weeks ago! YES!

Oh man, this movie, along with the songs "Thunder In Your Heart" and "Break the Ice" are CLASSICS in my house. My brothers, sisters, and I still love this despite it's crappy campiness.

I am disappointed you didn't show the clip of Ray Walston (the old grump in the hat) flip the bird to Oscar!

Linkara reference?

IT'S GONNA KICK ASS:D

What's bad is, I could totally picture Doug, Rob, and Lewis teaming up to do that.

what's also bad is that I seem to be the only one who saw that Cop at the end and immediately thought "....Dr. Eggman?"

true, but what would be funnier is if NC Spoony and Linkara teamed up for "gleaming the cube".

This movie looks like complete garbage just like it's BMX fanbase but I will give it credit for it's rousing 80s soundtrack. Gotta love those digitized synthetic beats! *rocks out while smashing the cast's BMX bikes with a sledgehammer.*

"You wanted it..."

"You asked for it..."

"And in the summer of 2012...forget Batman...forget Sherlock Holmes..."

"There will only be...the 90s!"

*cue audio*

"Duuuuuuuuude!"

Oh bikes. So cool.

Not.

I remember this movie. My dad liked it.

I just remembered Ashens' review of BMX Ninja. Hilarious.

Oh. BMX Ninja is a game. A terrible old game you've probably never heard of.

I haven't. I only ever play rpg games.

As always, another great review of another terrible movie, well done NC, keep em' coming!

Message to the 80's, what were you thinking.

Maybe we should ask 80s Dan. =)

80s respond: We didn't have to think... It made sense to us if you look back closer...

Hal Needham directed this.

Would you believe Hal Needham directed the first two Cannonball Run films? I never watch them but from what I've heard about them (including Speed Zone), I wonder if NC will ever review them since those films has countless of pointless big name stars embarrassing themselves.... Yeah....

That is precisely why it is funny.

Raaaaaaaad

you said it best, Rad is bad ;

Never seen or heard of this beforehand, but it was pretty funny how the cop and the old man completely changed

and the sushi, I knew you were gonna spit it out...lol inhaling it like that im amazed you didn't choke

Whenever I here of a movie with a title like “Rad,” NOTHING pops into the mind on what the Funking Wagnall it’s about. And after seeing this review, I feel that this film is what inspired “Airborne.”

1:50- Great, we have a film adaptation of “Paper Boy” for the NES, and it sucks as much as any other video game movie out there.

I agree that this movie is …SPECIAL (Shimmy).

2:49- The quality makes this film look like it should be reviewed by The Cinema Snob.

I wish I WAS watching “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure.”

6:29- And wife. Don’t forget about the wife part.

8:24- I feel that “Rad” at this point turned into “Grease 3,” and Lindsey already showed us how much THAT film sucked. At least I’m rocking to one of the songs from Brad Jones’ “Hooker with a Heart of Gold.”

Nice job on the Batman: TAS clip.

14:27- Then you need Linkara, lady. HE’S a man.

16:40- If I want to see slow-motion action in films, I’ll stick with films like The Transformers Trilogy, The Matrix Trilogy, “Watchmen,” “300,” and a few others films.
17:17- I didn’t expect that movie joke to appear.

I never had sushi before, and I probably never will.

Why don't you want to try sushi? It's not all raw seafood. Sometimes, it's just rice and vegetables.

You're right, not all sushi is raw - much of it, such as shrimp or crab, is usually cooked, and some of it doesn't have any seafood in it at all (such as tomako (I think that's the right name), which is basically scrambled egg and sushi rice). With Doug spitting the sushi out, I don't think the issue was that it was sushi, I think the issue was that it was BAD sushi, from like a supermarket chain or something. You know, the dubious kind that comes on plastic trays in the supermarket fresh area. It could also be that Doug dislikes sushi in general (though he seems to have an opinion on it, so maybe he's a casual sushi eater), or that he doesn't like nori. I know someone who can't eat roll-style sushi because the texture of the nori bothers them.

I dunno how familiar you are with sushi, SpeedyEric, but one thing you should never do is eat sushi if it's not prepared fresh - and be wary if you can't see the chef preparing it in front of you. If this is your first time, picking it up from a supermarket or quick-stop store is never a good choice. You want real sushi? Do a sushi bar. It'll cost a bit more but it's worth it for the real thing, and the real thing is (in my opinion anyway) delicious. :) Try starting on familiar fish like salmon or shrimp, or mild fish like eel and tuna - it'll help ease you in to the more unique stuff (such as octopus and flying fish roe!) and the fusion stuff (the Rainbow Roll has multiple kinds of fish and happens to be my favorite).

Thanks for the warning, TheLaughingFish. =)

SpeedyEric wrote:
"Whenever I here of a movie with a title like “Rad,” NOTHING pops into the mind on what the Funking Wagnall it’s about."

See, if you knew German, the movie's title would make more sense to you. The only question I have is: Why the f*ck does an American movie have a German title? When I read the title of Doug's video, for a second I thought it was supposed to be an English word, but when I saw the title card picture, with the Nostalgia critic falling off a bike, it was immediately clear to me what it was about.

"Rad" (always spelled with a capital letter because it's a noun) is first of all the German word for "wheel", but what it refers to in this case is the colloquial abbreviation of "Fahrrad", which is German for "bicycle"!

Unfortunately, I'm literally only 00:27 seconds into this video and ALREADY what I feared has happened: The Nostalgia Critic pronounced the title wrong. He interpreted it as the 1980s slang adjective "rad" (short for "radical!") and used the American English pronunciation. *sigh*

Alright, maybe the producers of this movie intentionally played with the double meaning of English "rad" and German "Rad", but seeing how this is a movie about idiots on bicycles, I think the German pronunciation is more appropriate: the "a" in the middle is pronounced similarly to the a in "article", a long aa sound, followed by a soft d; but the German vowel is fuller and less flat than the English "article".

Overthinking much? I know you probably meant it as a joke, but you explained it a little too in-depth, if so.

Sheranda:
I'll give it a try some time.

Crunchy_Frog:
I got the German translastion for "Rad" from one of the comments below.

SpanishScion:
I always over think with these videos. It makes me feel like I'm also reviewing these movies, TV shows, comics, esc.

EXTREME ?

No. STUPID!

pretty abrupt ending don't ya think?

thing would be x1000 better if at the end godzilla just came and stepped on them and batman comes in and has a break dancing competition with santa christ

stupidly random i know but you gotta admit you'd pay to see that

Yeah.

This movie was awful

seroiusly? Fuck this movie

....seriously, the music is grating awful.

As a member of the late 90's extreme sports crowd, that's the kind of music that is associated with BMX riders in the 80's?

Holy fuck.

Thank God for 90's Hip Hop, Rap-Rock, Electronica and Alternative Rock. I really can't imagine riding a skateboard or BMX riding in a cheesy 80's pop song.

Hell, i used to think that some the songs from the Dave Mirra and the Tony Hawk video games were not to my taste, but atleast they're better than the music in this piece of shit called "Rad".

90s Kid reply: DDDDuuuuddeeee of course 90's hip-hop, rap-rock, electronica and alternative rock can be really AWESOME. As far as I'm concern, extreme sport bikes can be like every kid of the 90s genre to look back at the 80s as a inspirating passion of bikes, drinks, babes, abs-pack doucheheads and, best of all if you will, BEACH PARTY!!

80s Dan comes in: Hey, hey, hey, don't forget all the fabulous Crystal Pespi offerings we have prepare for the folks at the beach to enjoy an occasional moment. Take my word for it, it's a lifetime occasion you'll never regret.

o.O weird movie

Good grief. At this point, even though I was born in the nineties, I have watched this show enough to be able to spot this movie as an eighties abomination from miles away. Thank god that slang wore out, now we have good slang... like shawty... and silly abbreviations that we speak out loud instead of texting...

These days, we also have better music than the cheese-grater-to-the- skull Rad soundtrack! Like the crap made by Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus...yeah, if one can't see how the current generation is just as flawed as the eighties in these respects, that person needs to accompany the passengers on the idiot bus that came by at the beginning of the video.

But more relevant to the video, this movie is just stupid, although I don't feel as upset by it as I did when I watched the Milk Money review. So that's something the creators of Rad can be proud of- their piece of cinematic idiocy was not as bad as Milk Money.

Great review; I loved the Life of Brian reference. And the bit about humping the bike, because that was my first impression of the image too.

Am I the only one here thinks Rad is the "Airborne" of the 80s? 'Cause, I think from here, 80s Dan came into existence just like 90s Kid came from...well...Airborne. NC, I freakin' love that you put the sound and music from the classic NES game "Paper Boy". Serious, I haven't forgotten that game (it was so long ago when I used to owned the NES system).

Watching this review, so many familiar faces from movies and tv shows this movie had. Geez, this film is very weird and bizzard. Good review anyway NC.

Read my comment above. You're not alone on the "Airborne" thing, buddy.

Adrian from Rocky + Oscar from Short Circuit + Uncle Jesse's girlfriend = suckage?

Beyond the shadow of a doubt that moive sucks, but at LEAST its not as bad as the last titanic animated moive. Now that moive is a crime against humanity while this one I would say its creators must repeat preschool all the way back to the 12th grade.

God that moive not only sucked, but it was stupid and borning as hell. I would enjoy watching paint dry than Rad.

Anyway good job on the review Doug and keep it up.

And now i know why bikeing is never shown on major TV

At least, not without helmets.

This looks awful. However, the paperboy reference was a nice touch.

Glen from The Stand nooooo!

and nice Indiana Jones reference.

This is a great review.

Yeah, the Paperboy bit was my favorite part of this video!

I wonder if NC has been watching Awesome Video Games...?

"Rad" means "Wheel" in German and it's also sometimes used as a synonym for "bike".

So I guess you could say "pun intended" ;)

I'm not disagreeing with you, but "rad" is short for "radical," which means... um... I forget.

Right, which is exactly how it's a pun.

And "radical" means EXTREME!!! Has 90's Kid taught you nothing?

I'll explain by a quote from Nancy Glass:



Rad is short for radical which is valley speak for good.

But Rad (the movie) is bad. And that's English for awful.


Trivia time: Talia Shire's company produced this mess. ADRIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

the clips in this movie looked boring to me but great review can someone tell me why i cant go to the 2-3 page of comment page

... because the video was just posted, there aren't very many comments yet. When there aren't enough comments posted to fill the first page, a second page won't appear, genius.

Adrian was deceased in "Rocky 6" so...

You do realize he was doing an impression of Rocky, not her, right? Last I checked, Rocky was alive during Rocky Balboa.

Because nothing shouts "badass" like bicycles.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch "Any Given Sunday." Motorcycles + '70s > Bicycles + '80s

Ah yes, Rad SEEMS like a sucky movie, but that's because you haven't seen the director's cut. In which the entire cast fall into the Mangler at the beginning, and then the remaining 90 minutes are of 19 year olds in bikinis wrestling in jello. Plus there's allusions that Harrison Ford is a replicant.

Ha-ha-ha! Really?!

Oh! I understand now! I really have to stop reading these posts so late at night.

Great review as always. Rad seems like a pretty ironic title for such a boring sports film. Had this movie focused more on the bikers crashing like the ridiculously stupid Hot Rod (which I find to be a guilty pleasure,) this movie could've been somewhat interesting.

Also, nice Karate Kid reference.

Perhaps it was too predictable, but, no psyche Hitler?

Hey, for once you review an old obscure movie that I've actually seen.
I do remember watching it back in the day only because I am a BMX racer.

I'm still cracking up about the black person!

It is amazing - I see more black people in everyday live in Berlin than in these movies.

And the USA got "slightly" more of them... weird.

I really wanted the lead kid to break his neck just to have him mom to rush over to him as lay dying just to say, "having fun disobeying me now?"