Eddie No This movie is the most hysterical proof of Chuck Norris' ability to make men engage in homosexual fantasies. This movie would've had a less, for lack of a better word, gay feel to it had the character not been obviously in high school. If he had been say ten years old, this movie would not have been half as achingly hilarious as it was. For those too lazy to read the plot synopsis (but obviously love me enough to read my review <3), the movie centers around a young asthmatic who "daydreams" that he is the almighty Chuck's sidekick (HENCE THE TITLE). He suffers from the typical high school loner woes: bullies, girl troubles, reconciling his homo-erotic fantasies with himself, et. al. There is a particularly laughable scene when our intrepid lad meets The Chuck, I swear I nearly heard him say "I think I wet my pants, but I didn't have to pee." SEE THIS MOVIE.

houseofjames Sidekicks is a pretty entertaining little film about a young, asthmatic boy who, in his imagination, is the sidekick to his hero, Chuck Norris. Barry, the kid (Brandis) is taught martial arts by his teacher's uncle (Mako). The story culminates with an exciting martial arts exhibition where Barry meets his idol, Chuck Norris, who agrees to help the boy in the competition.A wish-fullfilment movie in the juvenile sense. Although Chuck has definitely had his day, the idea of meeting and being helped by your fantasy hero, is good fodder for a kids film like this. Some people will probably quibble at the occasional silliness (Richard Moll's ridiculous gym teacher, and Piscopo's over-the-top bad guy karate teacher, to name a few), as well as the obvious self-promotion for Chuck Norris, but I think that the fantasy of the film will work itself over it's intended audience, who should enjoy this little treat of a movie.

jjthehacker This movie is very well done, I saw it when I was in high school, HBO used to play it pretty frequently. There aren't any really crucial plot points that I can mention that will ruin the movie for someone who hasn't seen it, I basically love it, because its really funny. They try to make it funny, and its so easy to watch. I wouldn't say its the type of movie that makes you care about the main character so much, but its an underdog story. If you have ever said "Gee this chuck Norris movie is a bit drawn out!" then you should see this, one example is Missing In Action, its a bit slow for an action movie. In this movie Chuck acts like he always does, he smiles a bit more in this one and you know, chuck appears in a fantasy situation like every 10 minutes. Most of these fantasies are hilarious. Any boy/girl, who used to run around the house pretending to be an action hero for fun should find this quite humorous. And the fantasy scene's catch phrases are minimal and mostly clichés- they stick to what most people who watched action movies made in the 80's would remember about chuck Norris type movie situations. And of course its less original than some people want, but we're talking about a boy's fantasies, those usually come from TV,movies, books and x mags. so, you can understand the drive of the movie. I really felt like this main character could be me, I took martial arts training for years but didn't compete much, I was picked on in school almost like the main character (it turned out to be nothing looking back 10 years later). The humor is priceless, my only problem with the movie is, I can't seem to find it on DVD. CHUCK, is the man- he delivers a few lines in the movie, again, emphasis is on that Jonathan Brandis kid (god bless him may he rest in peace) and he did a great job acting like a goofy kid with asthma and no direction in life. If you like this movie at all, then you should also see the movie hackers-1995 and Dragon the Bruce lee story-1995. but none of the actors in this movie are in hackers or dragon, i'm just relating fun movies for young people or people who grew up during the 90's but missed various films. Chuck Norris was also in Dodgeball-2004 making a cameo appearance as our optimistic pal "Thank You Chuck Norris". I don't recommend this movie for people who didn't grow up in the U.S. or Canada (I grew up in Canada & U.S.)its got random comedy, and if you're not up on your historical 80's/90's action/comedy you might not care to understand the satire in this movie.

Woogiee Ok, I'd just like to say i personally thought this movie was great...its got that whole cheesy martial arts feel to it with the coming of age aspect mixed in. Ya...anyways what i'd like to know is how come this movie isn't on DVD? I have searched high and low for it and i can't find it, it doesn't exsist! There are plenty worse movies made that they are releasing on to dvd's i don't see why this one isn't. So if anyone ever sees this, especially someone who has the ability to put this movie into DVD format and preferably with some kind of behind the scenes extras or even better yet commentary with chuck norris and jonathan brandis i would greatly appreciate it and i would be the first one in line to get it....and who knows judging from the other posts maybe the last but hey.