Darby O'Riley in Pretty Cool (2001)

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For those of you who prefer your teen sex comedies with a little more erotic telekinesis comes Pretty Cool (2001), a high-larious geek-makes-good ‘80s throwback. Will Burke channels both Anthony Michael Hall in Weird Science (1985) and Tom Cruise in Risky Business (1983) as Howard, a social reject with a love jones for the fox next door (Alexis Thorpe). When he realizes that summer school will stand in the way of getting to know her, he attempts to hack into the school’s computer to change his records. Instead, he bumbles his way into a computerized classified experiment and finds himself imbued with the power to read and control minds. Now, if Zapped! (1982) taught us anything, it taught us that such abilities are best used to make girls’ clothes disappear, and our buddy Howard does not disappoint, delivering a cornucopia of casabas via a bountiful bevy of B-movie bombshells.