the underlying premise of rescue me be the often proved notion that the adolescent male will do just about anything to win the affection of the female of the specie . post puberty be one dangerous age and some of u actually never grow out of it . stephen dorff be this gawky 16 something who want more than anything to win cheerleader ami dolenz . but in the peck order of high school she the property of jock danny nucci and he the jealous type . but when a pair of dangerous and but not terribly bright criminal kidnap dolenz to get ransom from her rich daddy and it dorff to the rescue and aid and abet by former green beret michael dudikoff . in this comedy and that doesn not quite click all the time and the best acting be do by the crook william lucking and peter deluise . deluise especially be a whole suit short of a full deck . good thing he so dumb or dorff would have be dead meat . a it be he get to be pull from harm way several time by dudikoff . rescue me be your typical teen comedy that with the presence of action star michael dudikoff try to expand a bit the normal audience for such thing . you have get to have a juvenile mind to truly enjoy rescue me .