High school kid Louise Miller (Robyn Lively) is on the lower rung of the social ladder. The nerds like her but she would like to be with the cool kids. A vindictive English teacher reads her note professing her love for cute football star Brad Powell out loud to the class. She's humiliated and the mean girls sing-taunt her. She is almost run over by Brad while riding her bike. Madame Serena Alcott reads her palm. She discovers that she's a wiccan in a past life and will receive her witch powers upon her 16th birthday.

This is not a good movie. It's a real head scratcher at times. One can't help but laugh when the class starts chanting Condom, Condom, Condom. The interesting part is that Robyn Lively is so nice, so lovely, and so bland. I can't hate on the sincere silliness. It's camp and I'm sure that there is a drinking game associated with this movie.

Well, granted when I sat down in 2021 to watch the 1989 romantic comedy "Teen Witch" for the first time, I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations. Why? Well, given the movie's synopsis, then it didn't really seem like a movie with a whole lot of appeal. And also the movie's cover wasn't exactly screaming 'great movie right here'.

But I do believe in giving a movie a fair chance, so of course I opted to sit down and watch "Teen Witch" from writers Robin Menken and Vernon Zimmerman.

And sure, "Teen Witch" from director Dorian Walker does have some appeal, however just not particularly to me, as I wasn't the target audience for a movie such as this; being male and well out of my teenage years. So "Teen Witch" didn't really offer much of any entertainment for me. And the storyline just didn't really bring anything worthwhile to the table for me.

The acting performances in "Teen Witch" were actually not bad, I will say that much. The movie was nicely enough carried by Robyn Lively. But the movie also had the likes of Dan Gauthier and even Zelda Rubinstein on the cast list.

I didn't really grasp or understand the random dance and lip-synching scenes that took place several times throughout the course of the movie. I was a teenager in the 1980s, and I don't remember ever breaking out spontaneously in song or lip-synching.

My rating of this 1989 romantic comedy lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

YouTube is guilty of bringing me to this movie thanks to the Top That rapping that's been doing the rounds on my suggested videos (and I'm not sure what that says about me and my and my algorithms).

I wasn't really prepared for the bizarre collage of 80'sness that was going to unfold.

The small psychic lady from Poltergeist, sudden moments of turning into a music video with really really bad lyrics, look at my many different, very much of its time, fashion outfits montages and sexual harassment that would lead to several court cases in today's world. (Although I will argue this film is a good case that the, 'female gaze', and objectification of men was indeed around in decades gone).

Everything about this film had me engrossed because it just would not be made today and it's so lame 80's it's hilarious throughout but also fascinatingly cool in a retro way.

I didn't really pay much attention to the story as I was to engrossed in the camp and comedic to care, but the plots is so basic you'll know how the entire movie will roll, at about the four minute mark.

The whole thing is a slice of nostalgia, even for those who weren't around in the 80's.

Want to step into the head of what a late 1980's 13 year old girl dreams being 16 is like, then watch this. Fan of camp, cult or pop culture, watch this. Want to see the guys actual tongue slide in out of the girls mouth in the kiss scene, errrr you can watch this as well. Like a bit of 420, smoke that then watch this.