History TotallyRadical / Film

* Spoofed in ''Film/SlamDunkErnest,'' when the title character walks into his friends' locker room and attempts to use urban slang to gain rapport with the African-American basketball players. His attempt backfires when he says, "Right arm. Out of state. Frozen." These malapropisms for "Right on," "Out of sight," and "Cool," are not well received by the other players.
%%* A lot of Harmony's dialogue in ''Film/ErnestSavesChristmas'' is this.
* ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'':
** The gang starts getting suspicious when those who arrive at the island resort speak like any average teenager, while those who leave speak using awful TotallyRadical slang. [[spoiler:It's because they're actually monsters wearing human skin, and [[TheScrappy Scrappy Doo]] taught them how to speak like "normal teenagers."]]
** The teens also couple the awful slang with malapropisms, such as "Are you ''tricking'' (tripping) on me?" and "I'm gettin' my swerve (groove) on!"
* The movie ''Film/GleamingTheCube'' is named after a particularly interesting-sounding skateboarding term one of the writers overheard from a crew member's son. The boy had [[ThrowItIn made the phrase up on the spot]].
%%* The Jets in the stage/film musical ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' speak (and sing) in a street language that Arthur Laurents made up, but includes actual [[TheFifties Fifties]] slang and words.
* Creator/DiabloCody's films ''Film/{{Juno}}'' and ''Film/JennifersBody'' include high school students using a lot of slang that Cody made up herself, such as "Honest to blog."
%%* ''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'': When the [[SpockSpeak technical-talking]] ship's AI scans David's brain, for some reason (not the least of which he's voiced by Paul Reubens), it starts speaking like Pee Wee Herman.
* This scene from ''Film/CampRock'':
--> '''Tess''': ''makes random hand signs''
--> '''Caitlyn''': Okay, what is that?
--> '''Ella''': She said "Whatever, major loser."
** This was outdated ASL slang from the '90s. She made a W, E (looking-ish thing), M, and L on her forehead.
* In ''Film/BetterOffDead'', there is a scene where the teenage protagonist's father attempts to connect with his son while awkwardly using slang he is reading from a book on how to communicate with teenagers. He still gets some of it wrong, saying things like "Right off!"
* In the movie ''Film/DisturbingBehavior'', Katie Holmes' character uses the term "razor" as analogous to "cool" or "sweet".
* This was one of the many problems with ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia'', from the school bullies being referred to by the other students as "The Nasties", and Bastian's step-sister refers to his sense of style as being "Un"[[note]]"uncool[[/note]].
* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' seems to intentionally embrace this. Much of the comedy comes from the two characters' flamboyantly silly version of California teen slang, which turns out to have swept the world in a utopian future. Their legacy includes two prime directives: "Be ''excellent'' to each other," and "Party on, dudes!"
* In ''Film/FreakyFriday2003'', not only the dialogue, but the themes of the movie are TotallyRadical, adjacent to AdultsAreUseless. The conversation in the restaurant where Anna (in the body of Tess, her mother) is talking with Jake over contemporary music (like they have a college degree in it) and then singing along with a rock cover "Baby One More Time" comes off as TotallyRadical. The moral of the story seems to be that teenagers just need to be left alone, and not relate to their parents (or vice versa), because neither can understand each other.
* A common complaint critics leveled at Creator/StevenSpielberg's ''Film/{{Hook}}'' was that it invokes this trope with its approach to the Lost Boys, who ride around on skateboards, play basketball, and refer to Peter Pan as "The Pan". ('Pan the Man' at one point.) Their {{Catchphrase}}, "Bangarang", is intentional fantasy, but still comes across as outdated.
* ''Film/MeanCreek'' for the most part is a pretty strong aversion of this trope; the teen talk is realistic and full of realistic profanity instead of cheesy slang, things like drinking, smoking, and marijuana use are discussed outright, and the Truth or Dare game in it isn't your standard fiction one with only mildly embarrassing PG-rated aspects. However, writer/director Jacob Aaron Estes ''did'' fail to realize that the teens of 2004 don't have the exact same interests teens in his day did, and don't consider Super Soakers the best thing since sliced bread or fantasize about Heather Locklear. Throwing your backpack in your direction only to pick it up and throw it again is also more of a 90's thing than something common today.
* In ''Film/MeanGirls'', Gretchen tries to create her own with "that's so fetch," [[ForcedMeme to little success]].
-->'''[[AlphaBitch Regina]]''': Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!
* Used deliberately in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''. The secretary Grace tells the principal "The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads -- they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude" in regard to Ferris.
* The immortal line from the [[ProductPlacement 90-minute Nintendo commercial]] known as ''Film/TheWizard'':
--> "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad."
* {{Invoked|Trope}} with Kevin Flynn's mannerisms in ''Film/TronLegacy''; which are reminiscent of an aging hippie guru left over from the '60s, making it an example of TwoDecadesBehind as well as a ShoutOut to another [[Film/TheBigLebowski laid back character played by Jeff Bridges.]]
--> ''"Radical, man..."''
* Inverted in ''Film/PrinceCaspian''. They really, really tried to make the 1940s settings for the Earth scenes perfect and detailed... and then had the boys say "got it sorted," which is at least forty years ahead of their time. Twice. At dramatically important moments.
* The dialogue in the Norwegian war movie ''Film/MaxManus'' also suffers under this trope, with actors who are supposed to live in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII unwittingly talking like {{the nineties}}.
* Disney's movie ''Now You See It...'' is full of this. The main characters use phrases like "a snowball's chance in you-know-what" and Danny talks like a ten year old girl at times.
%%* The entirety of 1993's ''Film/{{Airborne}}'' is like this.
%%* The 1986 movie ''Film/{{Rad}}'', which is about BMX racing.
* ''Film/TheSmurfs'': Papa Smurf wearing Wayfarer sunglasses on the poster? Check. Smurfette turned into a shopaholic ditz right out of ''Series/SexAndTheCity''? Check. Smurfs ''rapping''? Kill us.
* Used to orient us into the '50s setting in ''Film/StandByMe'', where Vern is so excited by news of a dead body in the woods that he can only say the now-ridiculous "This is so boss!" half a dozen times before explaining anything to the others.
* ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'' (set in the 1960's) features inappropriate usage of "boss."
%%* The Creator/ABCFamily TV movie ''Film/Cyberbully2011'' suffers from this, with the teenage characters using terms like "bling" and "the clap". This movie was released in ''2011''.
* Perhaps the strangest version of this is done deliberately in the 2006 film ''Film/{{Brick}}''. It is set in a modern day high school with teens and young adults but every character talks and acts like they are in a 1940s noir film, complete with hard-boiled slang and verbal tics that would sound like complete nonsense to modern teenagers (or anyone else born after 1934). Needless to say, this adds immensely to the film's quality.
%%* Pastor Skip from ''Film/{{Saved}}'' knocks himself out trying to relate to his students.
* In Music/TheBeatles film ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', Music/GeorgeHarrison is mistaken to be a participant in an ad campaign and ad manager Simon Marshall shows some shirts to him, "feeding" George the lines he's to use.
-->'''Simon:''' Now, you'll like these. You'll really "dig" them. They're "fab", and all the other pimply hyperboles.
-->'''George:''' (''after assessing the shirts'') I wouldn't be seen dead in them. They're dead grotty.
-->'''Simon:''' Grotty?
-->'''George:''' Yeah. Grotesque.
-->'''Simon:''' (''to assistant'') Make a note of that word and give it to Susan.
** Funnily enough, the expression "grotty" was actually invented by the film's screenwriter Alun Owen. It ended up catching on in real life after the film was released.
* In ''Film/TheWildOne'', the bikers have a lot of this.
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ljIknCjMw "Did you pick up on this jive, man? This crazy music, did you dig the rebop?"]]
* ''Film/BringingDownTheHouse'' attempts to avert this. The movie uses a lot of hip-hop slang, so instead of using real slang and risk dating the movie or invoking this trope, they just made up their own slang instead.
* In the 2005 version of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', one of the side effects of Willy Wonka isolating himself from the rest of the world for so long is that he tends to speak this way to children, using slang and references that wander about from TheFifties to TheSeventies.
* Occasionally seen in the children's adventure movie ''Film/AKidInKingArthursCourt'', such as when the time-traveling hero attempts to teach Arthur's younger daughter how to speak like him.
-->'''Princess Katy:''' So if something is bad, it's good?
-->'''Calvin:''' Right, and if it's cool, it's hot.
-->'''Princess Katy:''' I fear I shall never understand your "valley speak."
* Marty [=McFly=] attempts a little Fifties slang in ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage to middling success]]. Of course, by now, even the 1985 characters' slang sounds dated and odd: Nobody says "this is heavy" anymore, unless they're referencing the movie.
* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014''. When Mikey uses his CatchPhrase "Cowabunga", he says that he's been "holding it in for years" since it's something he used to say when he was a kid.
-->'''Raphael''': You got one more in the tank?
--> '''Michelangelo''': Been holding it in for years.
* ''Film/SavingChristmas'': Critic Peter Sobczynski called the hip-hop version of ''Angels We Have Heard On High'' in the film the whitest thing he'd ever heard in his entire life.
* In ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'', Guy sets up a Twitter account for Annie, @annie4realz. "Get it? Because she's 'for realz'?"
* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' notoriously has Skids and Mudflap, whose gangsta-wannabe mannerisms are taken to the point of complete obnoxiousness. Ironhide calling a Decepticon "punk-ass" towards the beginning of the film counts too, especially considering how jarringly out of character it is.
* Deliberate in ''Film/{{Pixels}}'', as Eddie Plank keeps on using slang, mannerisms, and hairstyles from his GloryDays, TheEighties.
* ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'', set in 2016, features a character who is "stoked" to meet the rest of the cast, including the "fly" Ruby Roundhouse. Justified [[spoiler:because he turns out to have been stuck in the game since 1996, though [[NarniaTime he has only experienced a few months]] -- making a rare example of this trope being PlayedForDrama when the gang realise that he has been trapped in the game for twenty years]].
* In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Captain America does a few PSA videos that are shown in schools. One is addressing kids in detention, which he starts by EdgyBackwardsChairSitting in order to be relatable, but he instead looks awkward.
** Speaking of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Professor Hulk]] ''dabbing'' to impress some kids at a diner. Said kids and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica are not amused.]]
* In ''Film/INotStupidToo'', work-obsessed Steven tries bonding with his estranged teenage son, Tom, using "hip" slang, thinking he can interact with his child by sounding modern. Which leads to a somewhat awkward (but still hilarious) moment in a restaurant:
--> '''Steven''': This lamb chop is ''lame'', like a ''lame'' chop...\\
[''Tom facepalms internally'']
* Spoofed in ''Film/NotQuiteHuman'', as Professor Carson attempt to help Chip fit in by programming him with slang that was cool when Carson was that age, resulting in Chip using 50s slang and attempting to do the Twist at a dance. This results in the other students ending up deciding that Chip's quirky behavior ''is'' cool.
* Yello Dyno from ''Film/TrickyPeople''. So dated is his radicalness that he makes pop-culture references to Creator/EthelMerman and Creator/AlJolson.
* The terribly written totally cool dialog in ''Film/JackFrost1998'' (the Michael Keaton as a snowman film, not the less horrifying horror movie), called out by ''Creator/RogerEbert''.
-->'''Charlie:''' You the man!
-->'''Jack:''' No, I the ''snow''man!
* Parodied by ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'' with ESPN-8, "The Ocho", which was a reference to how ESPN 2 started as this trope in the 90s.
* In a trailer for 1990s movie ''Film/AdventuresInDinosaurCity'', the voiceover says it stars, among others, the "far-out Pterodactyl", the "total Triceratops", and the "rad Tyrannosaurus".
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* Who can forget the immortal scene from ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest''? We still have no idea if it's meant to be a satire (note Crysta's reaction) or if the writers were serious:
--> '''Zack''': You know -- bodacious, bad, tubular...
--> ''Zack looks meaningfully into Crysta's eyes''
--> '''Zack''': As in, you are one ''bodacious'' babe.
* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', where Shrek spews out a string of hip-hop slang in a failed attempt to relate to Artie.
-->'''Artie:''' Help! I've been kidnapped by a monster that's trying to relate to me!

* "WesternAnimation/RileysFirstDate", the short following ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' features Riley's mother trying to find out whether Riley is attracted to Jordan. Unfortunately, she attempts to do so with her idea of current slang. It's as hideously grating as it sounds.
-->'''Mom:''' So, what's the dealio with Jordan? OMG, he is awesomesauce. Fo' shizzy!\\
''[Inside Riley's control center, her emotions stare blankly]''\\
'''Joy:''' ... Did she just say "fo' shizzy?"\\
'''Sadness:''' I don't understand. What's happening?\\
'''Disgust:''' Ugh, this is just embarrassing! I can't. I c-can't. ''[[[ScrewThisImOutOfHere Storms off]]]''\\
'''Mom:''' Holla!\\
''[The rest of the emotions cringe]''
* Played straight ''and'' {{inverted|Trope}} at the same time in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'': The movie has Scat Cat and others saying "groovy" and "cat" in a film released in 1970 (when that kind of slang was going out of style), but the film itself is set in ''1910'', when none of such slang was in common use (or even invented) yet. Of course, the movie has [[AnachronismStew swing to begin with...]] It still counts, because that sequence also has the eponymous kittens (who are, as their name suggests, supposed to be {{Upper Class Twit}}s) awkwardly joining Scat's crew in singing the jazz song "Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat." (Note that the song contains plenty of beatnik/hippie slang such as "square" and "where it's at.")
%%* The Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon generally averts this, but ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', especially Megara, is plagued with it.

* Marty [=McFly=] attempts a little Fifties slang in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage to middling success]]. Of course, by now, even the 1985 characters' slang sounds dated and odd: Nobody says "this is heavy" anymore, unless they're referencing the movie.

* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} the Third'', where Shrek spews out a string of hip-hop slang in a failed attempt to relate to Artie.

* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'':

* This was one of the many problems with ''Film/TheNeverendingStory III'', from the school bullies being referred to by the other students as "The Nasties", and Bastian's step-sister refers to his sense of style as being "Un"[[note]]"uncool[[/note]].

* Creator/DiabloCody's films ''Film/{{Juno}}'' and ''Film/JennifersBody'' include high school students using a lot of slang that Cody made up herself, such as "Honest to blog." Audiences are generally divided on whether it's an example of this trope or a clever way of side-stepping it.

* Marty [=McFly=] attempts a little Fifties slang in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage to middling success]]. Of course, [[SocietyMarchesOn by now]], even the 1985 characters' slang sounds dated and odd: Nobody says "this is heavy" anymore, unless they're referencing the movie.

* "Riley's First Date?", the short following ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' features Riley's mother trying to find out whether Riley is attracted to Jordan. Unfortunately, she attempts to do so with her idea of current slang. It's as hideously grating as it sounds.

* Spoofed in ''Slam Dunk Ernest,'' when the title character walks into his friends' locker room and attempts to use urban slang to gain rapport with the African-American basketball players. His attempt backfires when he says, "Right arm. Out of state. Frozen." These malapropisms for "Right on," "Out of sight," and "Cool," are not well received by the other players.

* The movie ''Gleaming the Cube'' is named after a particularly interesting-sounding skateboarding term one of the writers overheard from a crew member's son. The boy had [[ThrowItIn made the phrase up on the spot]].

* ''Mean Creek'' for the most part is a pretty strong aversion of this trope; the teen talk is realistic and full of realistic profanity instead of cheesy slang, things like drinking, smoking, and marijuana use are discussed outright, and the Truth or Dare game in it isn't your standard fiction one with only mildly embarrassing PG-rated aspects. However, writer/director Jacob Aaron Estes ''did'' fail to realize that the teens of 2004 don't have the exact same interests teens in his day did, and don't consider Super Soakers the best thing since sliced bread or fantasize about Heather Locklear. Throwing your backpack in your direction only to pick it up and throw it again is also more of a 90's thing than something common today.

* ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'', set in 2016, features a character who is "stoked" to meet the rest of the cast, including the "fly" Ruby Roundhouse. Justified [[spoiler:because he turns out to have been stuck in the game since 1996, though [[NarniaTime he has only experienced a few months]]]].

* Spoofed in ''Film/SlamDunkErnest,'' when the title character walks into his friends' locker room and attempts to use urban slang to gain rapport with the African-American basketball players. His attempt backfires when he says, "Right arm. Out of state. Frozen." These malapropisms for "Right on," "Out of sight," and "Cool," are not well received by the other players.

* Played straight ''and'' {{inverted|Trope}} at the same time in Disney's ''Disney/TheAristocats'': The movie has Scat Cat and others saying "groovy" and "cat" in a film released in 1970 (when that kind of slang was going out of style), but the film itself is set in ''1910'', when none of such slang was in common use (or even invented) yet. Of course, the movie has [[AnachronismStew swing to begin with...]] It still counts, because that sequence also has the eponymous kittens (who are, as their name suggests, supposed to be {{Upper Class Twit}}s) awkwardly joining Scat's crew in singing the jazz song "Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat." (Note that the song contains plenty of beatnik/hippie slang such as "square" and "where it's at.")
%%* The Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon generally averts this, but ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', especially Megara, is plagued with it.

* Yello Dyno of ''Film/TrickyPeople''. So dated is his radicalness that he makes pop-culture references to Ethel Merman and Al Jolson.

* Spoofed in ''Slam Dunk Ernest,'' when the title character walks into his friends' locker room and attempts to use urban slang to gain rapport with the African-American basketball players. His attempt backfires when he says, "Right arm. Out of state. Frozen." These malapropisms for "Right on," "Out of sight," and "Cool," are not well received by the other players.