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Movie Reviews of Explorers
Movie Review: my show
Summary: 5 Stars
i seen it as a kid and got again some just last in your mind for ever i wanna go exploreMovie Review: Explorers
Summary: 5 Stars
My kids always liked this movie and I thought my grandson might like it also.Movie Review: Enjoyable Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a really nice film. Nicely made with some brilliant child actors.Movie Review: A Wonderful Film from the 1980s
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is really a good one, and it is well worth any viewer's time. The acting by the young Ethan Hawke was just awesome, and the range of emotions and skill he had at such a young age was truly impressive. It is such a shame that this film did not do well when it was originally released as the storyline of the film is pretty good, the acting by all the main characters was quite impressive, and the special effects used in this film were really advanced considering this film was made around 1984/1985. Ethan Hawke truly did a fine job in his role as his performance really carried the film not that the other actors were bad in anyway. My only quibble with this film was the aliens as even the Hawke character was frustrated about the sillyness of the aliens he and his friends encountered. The tone of the film was quasi-serious with the boys experimenting with their newfound knowledge with everything leading up to the big meeting with the aliens. I think the Hawke character's exasperation with the aliens probably best conveyed the feelings of the viewer as I was hoping for more from the aliens rather than their being basically the same age as the boys and probably not as mature as them. The aliens were kind of a let down for me personally, but they were kind of funny in a way in that I am sure in the world of those boys President Carter would have probably been horrified to learn that instead of aliens learning about Earth from the recorded messages of the Voyager probes that instead they were using television of the day to ascertain how humans lived!
Despite the aliens everything else in the film was great especially with the interactions between the characters. The intellect of the River Phoenix character Wolfgang worked very well with the idealism of the Hawke character Ben while the Jason Presson character Darron's pessimism kept everyone grounded and real.
Even though this film is from the 1980s it is timeless and can even be enjoyed nowadays. Granted, somethings like an Apple IIE computer might seem like a blast from the past, but the feelings of the boys and their adventure is something that can happen to anyone. I know that some folks on here had issues with the ending of the film, but considering that this was a film made from the 1980s along the lines of "Flight of the Navigator" and "E.T." I think the ending made sense to convey a sense of hope.
Basically, this is a feel good film which one can watch with the whole family, and this is a film that anyone from a young child to a grown adult can enjoy as it does appeal to everyone.
If this film is ever remade, then I hope that the aliens can be made to be less ridiculous as they came across, and it would be really nice if there could be more of a background to the helicopter pilot who had caught the boys midair and who apparently had the same kind of dreams when he was a boy of their age. It would have been interesting for that character to have been either a protagonist or antagonist to the boys as they made their journey to the alien spaceship as it seemed like his role was really truncated in this film most likely due to time contraints.
Movie Review: great 80's Sci Fi movie, great kids movie also
Summary: 4 Stars
The 80's was a good time to be a kid as far as movies went.
Speilberg's influence was big at that time, mainly due to "E.T.", a movie that had a big sense of innnocence and childlike wonderment. ET had a big influence on a lot of the other sci fi and fantasy movies that came out after it, for a number of years, including this film.
It was directed by Speilberg collaborator Joe Dante, & is for sure similar in many ways to "ET", but with a 50/50 blend of Spielbergian wonder and Joe Dante's classic movie nostalgia and wisecracks.
The three kids get the help of unseen, freindly aliens in making a sort of "force field bubble" that can fly anywhere, even into space...after converting an old abandoned carnival Tilt-O-Whirl car into their spaceship, they are able to put themselves inside the bubble, which, after some test runs, takes the three kids off into space, where they visit with the aleins who contacted them, being pulled in to a giant alien spaceship floating somewhere in space...
However, the aliens themselves, rather than be some sort of "source of knowledge" as the main character hopes, instead make the kids laugh with their own wisecracks and jokes. It is especially funny that the aliens learned to speak english from intercepting tv broadcasts that have gone out into space...thus the aliens impersonate cartoon characters, celebrities, etc...
this was not as major a film as ET was, in fact back at that time it was sadly undermarketed...I remember seeing it for the first time on HBO over a year after it came out...However, This movie is, to me, a lesser known 80's classic...not as famous as "Goonies" or "ET", but similar for it's own child-like and optimistic story.