Explorers
by Joe Dante
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Actor: Bobby Fite, Bradley Gregg, Ethan Hawke, Georg Olden, River PhoenixDirector: Joe Dante
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: John Hora
Editor: Tina Hirsch
Producer: David Bombyk
Producer: Edward S. Feldman
Producer: Michael Finnell
Producer: Tom Jacobson
Writer: Eric Luke
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Explorers
Movie Review: Great movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is one of those that really draw you in from the beginning, as you are able to associate with the characters from your own childhood experiences. The story brings it all together in kind of a wizard of oz type way.
Summary of Explorers
EXPLORERS are the inventive story about three idealistic and thrill-seeking boys who combine their wits and astuteness to build their own spaceship. Accordingly, the boys blast-off into the galaxy and embark on journeys both whimsical and weird.It's only in retrospect that one can see that Joe Dante's Explorers is an awful lot like Robert Zemeckis's Contact. An alien race, determined to make contact with earthlings, feeds some unsuspecting individuals the blueprints for space travel. Instead of the big gyroscope that Jodie Foster was strapped into in Contact, the three kids in Explorers make their intergalactic trip in crystalline blue Flubber. River Phoenix looks shockingly prepubescent (which he was) as Wolfgang, the brains of the trio, while Ethan Hawke looks like a young lady-killer as Ben. Fitting into the "whatever happened to?" category is Jason Presson as Darren, an outcast who joins the two eggheads. Joe Dante's career, cruising after Gremlins was a smash, faced a serious "hitch in the giddyup" when this film sputtered through the 1985 summer season without much of an impact. The effects still hold up nicely, as does Dante's incessant need to pay homage to other, older sci-fi films. The whole thing seems like a lot of trouble for some smackingly bland and silly results, but it's a harmless, initially involving diversion. --Keith Simanton
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