This is one of those harmless movies that I really expected to hate, but ended up enjoying. Brendan Fraser plays a likable young man who's been raised in his paranoid father's bomb shelter his whole life. The adventure begins when Fraser leaves the shelter and befriends Eve (Alicia Silverstone).

The first half of the movie contains the filmÕs best moments, most of which are supplied by Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek. Once Fraser makes his journey to the surface, the film's pace becomes sluggish. It turns into your average fish-out-of-water story. Silverstone is fair but not quite as likable as Fraser. David Foley (Newsradio) is hilarious as Silverstone's gay buddy.

Blast From The Past isn't great, but for a light-hearted comedy, it sure beats the inept She's All That.