Brendan Fraser plays a 35-year-old man who comes to the Earth's surface for the first time in modern day L.A., after being raised by his parents in a bomb shelter since 1962. Christopher Walken is a lot of fun as Fraser's oddball, scientist father who believes that America has been nuked by the Soviets. Sissy Spacek is his equal as the mom who cannot wait to resurface and abandon their luxurious shelter. Alicia Silverstone represents Fraser's newfound romantic possibilities and Dave Foley is fun as her homosexual confidante. The bomb shelter scenes with Walken are this lightweight comedy's best while the storyline in L.A. is predictable and often ridiculous. The scenes with the cult our especially horrific. Silverstone turns in a rather poor performance when compared "Clueless."
Review of Blast from the Past
