Well well it's Peter Billingsley as Jack Simmons who is in turn: The Dirt Bike Kid! But in other words he happens to be a nerdy bespectacled 4th grader whose utterly obsessed with dirt bikes - and the cool-guy image that comes along with it, but not if his mom has anything to say about it. And so our tale begins one fateful day at the local Motocross track, when Jacky-Boy encounters someones grandpa, who with some carefully chosen words convinces Jack to buy a certain special, yet unassuming-looking, dirt bike on the cheap from it's current and utterly unworthy owner - some muddied-up punk with a mullet and a bad attitude named Max. Jack and Max will cross paths several times throughout the movie, just watch. Anyways, it's with this once-in-a-life-time purchase that, in the world of Jack Simmons - who is now in fact: The Dirt Bike Kid, that things really begin to heat up. And well... just expect a lot of mischief and shenanigans from a 4th grader, with a bowl-cut, riding around on a magical dirt bike, that can move by itself, make puttering fart noises, comically roll it's headlights, catapult unsuspecting riders from it's seat, link up with and/or "network" with primitive home computers, produce more torque than a bulldozer... oh, and it can also fly.
VROOM! VROOM! We're off!!! And whilst on the back of his special one-of-a-kind dirt bike Jack's adventures take him "all over town", yep, night or day Jack is a very busy boy indeed (vandalism, computer theft, public endangerment, multiple cases of criminal trespass, blackmail, etc.) and through-out the movie it's essentially a cat-and-mouse game between hot-shot Jack Simmons (aka the Dirt Bike Kid) and various evil factions; all of which have a vested interest in putting the meddlesome dirt bike kid out of action once-and-for-all! But Jack's not having any of that and well not to spoil it completely, let's just say that given the fact that he IS the movies hero, he prevails over evil... and saves Mike's Dog House as well. Now how can you top that, right? Also watch-out for those epic food fights inside Mike's place, where the film is perhaps at it's most nostalgic. The movies soundtrack tends to trade-off between the cringiest "radio-friendly" pop-rock - of the lowest possible strata (even for mid-80's standards) and goofy keyboard-based music, that would sound right at home in a cartoon episode of Heathcliff; which was very popular at the time and a great cartoon.
Coming from the mid-eighties it's no surprise that The Dirt Bike Kid comes absolutely loaded with nostalgia, as the film exudes that certain unmistakable vibe that so many movies of that era are alive with. And having been released right in the middle of the eighties it should be no surprise when I say that everything about this movie is very, very eighties - which is a good thing if your aim is to make a cheesy comedy about a kid and his magical dirt bike which has super powers. It's like this: The Dirt Bike Kid is very corny, very funny (in a completely infantile sort of way), and well, very 1985 - the same year that also brought us: The Goonies, Back To The Future, Weird Science, Real Genius, Teenwolf, The Heavenly Kid, Better Off Dead, Just One of The Guys, My Science Project and many other distinctively corny comedy classics.
VROOM! VROOM! We're off!!! And whilst on the back of his special one-of-a-kind dirt bike Jack's adventures take him "all over town", yep, night or day Jack is a very busy boy indeed (vandalism, computer theft, public endangerment, multiple cases of criminal trespass, blackmail, etc.) and through-out the movie it's essentially a cat-and-mouse game between hot-shot Jack Simmons (aka the Dirt Bike Kid) and various evil factions; all of which have a vested interest in putting the meddlesome dirt bike kid out of action once-and-for-all! But Jack's not having any of that and well not to spoil it completely, let's just say that given the fact that he IS the movies hero, he prevails over evil... and saves Mike's Dog House as well. Now how can you top that, right? Also watch-out for those epic food fights inside Mike's place, where the film is perhaps at it's most nostalgic. The movies soundtrack tends to trade-off between the cringiest "radio-friendly" pop-rock - of the lowest possible strata (even for mid-80's standards) and goofy keyboard-based music, that would sound right at home in a cartoon episode of Heathcliff; which was very popular at the time and a great cartoon.
Coming from the mid-eighties it's no surprise that The Dirt Bike Kid comes absolutely loaded with nostalgia, as the film exudes that certain unmistakable vibe that so many movies of that era are alive with. And having been released right in the middle of the eighties it should be no surprise when I say that everything about this movie is very, very eighties - which is a good thing if your aim is to make a cheesy comedy about a kid and his magical dirt bike which has super powers. It's like this: The Dirt Bike Kid is very corny, very funny (in a completely infantile sort of way), and well, very 1985 - the same year that also brought us: The Goonies, Back To The Future, Weird Science, Real Genius, Teenwolf, The Heavenly Kid, Better Off Dead, Just One of The Guys, My Science Project and many other distinctively corny comedy classics.