Review – The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

For awhile toward the beginning of his career Kurt Russell made a living by starring in live action Disney movies intended strictly for the kids. The formula for three of them was that a mediocre college student somehow gets enhanced by a mishap of science. In this one – the first of the three – a bolt of lightning zaps a computer inside his head. The upside is that it makes him great at Quiz Bowl. The downside is that the computer used to belong to a mobster (Cesar Romero) who isn’t too happy to learn that Russell now knows the details of his gambling racket. The target audience for this is composed almost entirely of people with just one digit in their ages. See if desperate