It's recruiting time and Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?

A particularly mediocre example of the high school comedy trend that was prevalent in the eighties. Johnny Be Good is certainly watchable, but it has very few genuine laughs in it.

The subject of pro sports recruiting could have been made into a clever satire but Johnny Be Good resorts to juvenile toilet humor more often than not and it's left to the moderate charms of the cast to carry the film.

Still, if you're a fan of highschool set movies, then more than likely you'll find something to enjoy about this one. I mean, I had to give at least one film a "bad" rating.

Uma was just starting out so we won't hold her appearance as the generic "sexy girlfriend whose father hates the hero" against her. Actually she comes out of it quite well, somehow managing to maintain some dignity in the otherwise regrettable film. However she is given nothing remotely challenging to do, as her character seems to have no life of her own.

It's ironic that she actually seems too mature to play a highschool student (both in looks and demeanor) when in fact she was only 17 when playing this part. The mere fact that she has such a completely different presence from the actresses who normally play this type of role make her scenes with Anthony Michael Hall more interesting than they have a right to be. A scene where a long-john wearing Uma massages Hall's face with her prodigious feet particularly sticks in my memory, bringing to mind discussions on Mia Wallace's feet in Pulp Fiction.