In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the brain. Lori, a female body guard steals a case of such chips and flees underground Los Angeles with Danner, a pleasure android so that they can smuggle the chips to New York. In pursuit is Plughead, a dangerous criminal so named because of the many sockets and ports which decorate his scalp so that he can test and use the chips that he is after. In the future, the Earth has been transformed into a unbreathable wasteland where most of the ocean has dried up, and trees no longer grow on the surface, due to pollution. The human race is now living in underground cities beneath the surface. In L.A., former bodyguard Lori is pulled out of retirement when her former employer, Juice, hires her. Juice sells electronic narcotics "chips" to Plughead, a psychotic chip dealer who is more machine than man. When the deal goes wrong, Juice is killed in a undercover police operation. In possession of the chips, Lori hires a robotic gigolo named Danner to help her get from L.A. to New York, where she plans to sell the chips. They are pursued by Plughead and two clumsy police detectives, They travel across the unbreathable surface to New York City, as Plughead wants the chips for himself. Being relatively new to the genre of the psychotronic film, I was a little unsure what to expect with this film. A when the movie channel warned of graphic violence, I got even a little more nervous. What were they thinking? Take away a couple of f bombs and you've got a PG movie. As a matter of fact, why would anyone want this to be rated R? The target audience should be kids under 16 and me. Yeah I liked this movie. I liked how the filmmakers got around the fact that this was a low budget movie by coming up with ideas that nimbly sidestepped the issue but without taking away from the science fiction theme. I liked the exuberant performances of Vernon Wells and Dennis Christopher. I liked the cynical performance of Paul Willson (who to me will always be the Bonanza theme song guy from "Cheers"). And I liked the fact that this film at no point took itself seriously but never winked at the camera. Show this film and "Buckaroo Banzai" to your teenage kids tonight. After seeing this film, I did not want my money back. I wanted my TIME back. I wanted that hour and a half back in my life - it was the most amazing, hideous torture to know that I had squandered precious minutes of my life on this dreck. I am scarred for life, and ever since this "film" entered my life I have had trouble sleeping. I am trying to suppress the memories, really I am. . . but they make me want to burn things.
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