Enjoyable, unpretentious sci fi movie based on the urban legend of World War Two. Michael Pare and Bobby diCicco are two sailors on board a ship on which a radar-avoidance experiment is performed - they jump overboard and wind up in 1984... cue comic reactions to modern fashion, music, etc.
They eventually get rid of di Cicco and have Pare head off on the road with Nancy Allen, where it becomes cute It Happened One Night stuff - although it would have been better if Allen had a stronger character and/or was more involved in the plot in a way other than pretty-girl-who-happens-to-be-there, and she and Pare had stronger chemistry.
Pare is really good - he's a likeable hero, handsome and brave, and seems as if he could come from 1943. There is an awful lot of exposition in the last 15 minutes or so which was too late in the day (all of a sudden, cute time travel stuff becomes 'we must save the entire earth'), a bunch of Coke product placement, an excitingly shot car chase scene in the desert. The basic idea was so good I wish this had been better. John Carpenter was executive producer.
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