Flight of the Navigator
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Movie Reviews of Flight of the Navigator
Movie Review: A Trilogy of Reviews for Ground Hog's Day Part 1
Summary: 5 Stars
Well friends, it's been-awhile since we've had a TRILOGY of reviews, hasn't it? Today I've got a great-one in store for you. I just had a movie-marathon and I'm going to bring my thought-dream to you now.
type...type...type...Let's RE-VIEW!
I think I saw this movie a looooong time ago when I was very little. It didn't quite have an impact on me then, like it does now. I probably related a lot to the kid and his dog at the beginning of the movie, where he's training his dog to be an e-lite frisbee catching machine. At least, you think he's training the kid to catch frisbees, really he's (most likely) training the dog to catch daggers, or throwing stars, or bricks. Things that could be thrown at them while him and his-dog are on secret missions in the future.
What I never realised is that the boy-adventurer gets taken 8 years into the future. He hasn't aged a bit, and his dumb parents don't even notice, they're just like "HOWARD! (or whatever the kids name is) Where have you been!?". Now that he is the same age and everyone else has grown up (including his dog-panion) he feels displaced and forms an even BETTER bond with his space-ship. The bond is FANTASTIC! They have such a great time together. Howar// I mean the boy-adventurer takes the space-ship to a farm and the ship teaches him about creatures from other planets that eat hats and the boy teaches the ship how to laugh and pee and the grown-ups just run around and yell and don't know what's going on just like in real-life. The ship needs the boy because he has space charts in his head and the boy needs the ship because it takes him places.
Unfortunately the space-ship eventually has to leave and go on other alone-missions and the boy doesn't understand. He thought they were having such a good time and could go on adventures forever.
Whatever, I didn't say I liked the near ending, but I give the writer credit for making it realistic. All in all I gave the movie five stars for the boy-space-ship-bond, and then had to deduct 4 stars for not letting the boy and his ship-panion have a happy ending and go on other great adventures. To be fair I'll add one star because when the boy is returned to his time, his-dog licks his face all over and then they play with fireworks, and that's how a good Howard Tuttleman-day ends. Later.
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P.S.
I just tried to edit the review because it says I gave the movie five stars and it won't let me take-it-back. I just want you to know that Howard Tuttleman has only rated the movie 2 stars. Okay, maybe three now that I've had time to think-it-over, but NOT 5! Later.
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Movie Review: Great 80's flick
Summary: 5 Stars
20 years later and I still stop and watch it when it's on TV. this movie is about a boy, Joey Cramer (played the son of Tom Sellick in Runaway) falls in a forest near home and gets knocked out. He wakes up only to find himself in the future. Also an alien spaceship needs to complete a brain scan of David (Cramer) to get his star charts and go home. The trouble is: NASA. David finds out something weird. His little brother Jeff is no longer littler and no longer younger than David. NASA wants to know where he was and what's the connection between him and the spaceship they have locked up in a hanger? As David is kept in NASA, many questions that are running thru his mind need to be answered. David and the Alien spaceship take him back home while NASA is hot on their trail. Is David going to be Jeff's little brother from now on? Will the Alien spaceship piloted by Pee-Wee Herman be able to return and complete its mission?
Warm, family-friendly movie. I especially like the part that the alien ship stops at a gas stattion in Florida and the gas attendant is shocked to see an alien ship ringing the bell for gas. David asks for change to make a phonecall. When a family stops at the gas station as David and the alien spaceship leave, the father from the family asks," What's going on?" The gas station attendant replies," He just wanted to call home". This movie stars, Cliff DeYoung, Howard Hessman (Head of the Class), Sarah Jessica Parker and Paul Reubans aka Pee-Wee Herman as Max the voice in the alien ship. No extras in the flick but I don't care much for extras, except for deleted scenes and funny outakes (this movie has neither).
Movie Review: COMPLIANCE!!!! AN INTENSE RIDE!
Summary: 5 Stars
Imagine for a second that you are walking through the woods one night to go pick up your geeky little brother at his friends house, then BAM you get conked on the head and pass out. When you wake up you discover that its eight years later, and everything in the world has changed except for you. You also have been missing for eight years so now creepy scientists want to hole you up in some lab so that they can run numerous tests on you. This of course pisses you off a ton (even though a fresh, young Sarah Jessica Parker is your nurse- and she likes to listen to Twisted Sister alot) so you decide one night to sneak out of your room and suddenly somehow you end up in a spaceship piloted by a giant glass eyeball who seems at first to have no sense of humor at all but ends up being a complete smart ass. He says he can take you home, but you don't know what is home anymore. You want to go back to 1978 where you belong, but it seems that you are stuck in 1986, where your brother is now an older geek, and your parents look like their faces have been melted! YOU ARE THE NAVIGATOR!
This intense picture was one of the best things ever to come from Disney. I loved this movie when I was little, and I still am pretty fond of it now. Watch as David, and his glass eyeball, Max discover an intergalactic friendship while they try to find their way back home. Hey its the only movie where a robot sings I GET AROUND by the Beach Boys. Good stuff.
Movie Review: FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR - Another great family movie (for a sci-fi Dad)
Summary: 5 Stars
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR was a five star movie that I would endorse for almost any family looking for good general entertainment. My boys enjoyed it very much as did my wife.
As a Disney film it used the never worn out Disney theme of a family separated by circumstances beyond their control. In this case the young hero of the movie is abducted by an alien spacecraft piloted by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) who sounded very familiar. The abducted boy is missing for a period of years only to be returned to his family not a day older but eight years later.
After a series of medical tests conducted at a local hospital to explain the mystery (which has the family as well as the police baffled), NASA steps in and "borrows" the boy for a few days of further testing trying to understand a recently recovered and very secret UFO. This is when the movie really takes off and is extremely entertaining.
When my family some years later visited Disneyworld we found on their back lot two beautiful full size UFO mockups used for the filming of this movie. The first had no door and was used to represent the impenetrable UFO and the second was modeled with the door open. It was great fun to see the very stylish and full scale UFO mockup in the "flesh".
Movie Review: I loved this movie, its a very inteligent and a beautiful film
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a really beautiful and very intelligent film, its got a very good story with great special effects and good acting, its got some very funny dialogue betwen Max and David too. Its a great film. Its nice to read the reviews you guys have written, it seems there are many other people who feel just the way I do about the film. I wish the DVD would of had more special features like an interview with Joey Cramer and those kinds of things. Because of Christmas I recently bought this film for my 10 year old nephew. I remember I saw it first when I was about 8 years old and I saw it once on TV about 9 years ago, I am now 25 and I hadnt seen it since. When I got it for my nephew just recently I watched it probably 5-10 times before I gave it to him, I loved it, im a teacher too and I even showed it my class. I sent the DVD by mail to my nephew who lives far from me but I think I will buy another copy and keep it for myself. Its one of those great movies like The Neverending story and the Goonies, im sure it will be around for generations. Maybe they should do a remake of it and release it again or somthing. Its great I loved it.