I watched this movie after 26 years for the first time and i do not know why i wait so long, i love it.
scared the shit out of me when i was a kid… i thought this was gonna happen to me and my little sister being older than me is like my worst nightmare…
It's pretty charming, and kind of heavy when dealing with the consequences of a kid being missing for eight years (then suddenly returning). It really drags in the last act, though. It ends up being this pseudo chase scene where he's being slowly tagged by NASA while an alien robot mimics the kid's personality? And there are weird-but-also-cool alien puppets on board this chrome ship? It gets really weird in the last act.
I might have enjoyed this more as a kid, but it's not too shabby, especially for its time.
This is one of the very first movies I saw as a kid, and I’m so glad it was. This is a cult classic that helped rocket me into my fascination with anything and everything sci-fi. It was imaginative and well written; and a common movie I recommend to younger generations that have a true interest in fun, imaginative sci-fi, that can set aside its age, and appreciate it for what it was and still is for us who grew up in the 80s and had the pleasure of experiencing this movie when it first came out.
Just watched this with my dad for the first time ever, he hadn’t seen it since he was a kid. It’s definitely the 80s that’s for sure :joy:
Another EPIC children's movie. The CGI holds up pretty darn good for how old the movie is. The ship and creature design is excellent and for the most part the story works except for the 80s montage which moves the plot well, doesn't take up too much time but logically stretches the bounces of the imagination. Paul Reubens aka Pee-Wee Herman was a perfect choice for a wacky space ship in the 80s. He bloody nailed it.
The soundtrack alone brings me back!
The grail sought by characters in the 20th century
The movie was surprisingly great up until the point where the ship copies that boys head and started to be the most insufferable thing for 45 minutes...
Fun movie, good music (gotta love Grease music when that movie has the same director) and a soundtrack by Alan Silvestri. I really liked the story and I'll definitely watch this one again.
Just re-watched this after reading a Yahoo article on the "10 80's movies that deserve a remake", in lieu of "Maverick's" recent success, and the announcement of "Beverly Hills Cop 4" and "Coming to America" getting the sequel treatment. This was the last one on that list, though IMO it should have ranked higher.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/10-80s-movies-deserve-legacy-111348248.html
Ditto with @Maeron, that this was prolly the most original spacecraft in science fiction, other than the homebuilt "junkship" from "Explorers" (another 80's gem I'll have to revisit) Period SFX still hold up pretty well, in fact, much better than some of the stars of the movie when you look at the current headshots on this page. But then, that's LIFE, which, unlike young David, moves ever forward through time, and then one day suddenly catches us out when we catch a look in the mirror, and, our minds eye doesn't quite sync up with our reflection for a moment.
Intriguing, seeing a teenaged Sarah Jessica Parker, and hearing Pee Wee Herman pre semi-banishment for doing what some grown men did in adult theaters pre high speed internet, and, I can remember working for a company that had similar looking mail robots as the one shown in the film. The height of technology at the time.
@JonThe Mantis - Max wasn't mimicking David, he had actually facsimiled his entire brain when he retrieved the star maps needed to return to his (and the other creatures) home planets, and overwrote David's personality onto his programming. I wonder how the aliens on his home world would have reacted to him when he returned?
Anyway, it's a fun movie, and, I'm glad I gave it a re-watch, even after all these years.
An upper-middle class kid from Miami falls into a dark, spooky ravine, bumps his head and wakes up eight years later, physically unchanged. While undergoing tests at the local hospital, his brain waves hijack the electronic monitoring equipment to display star charts and spaceship schematics. This quickly draws the attention of NASA, who have just captured a matching craft, and they take him in for further evaluation.
I think any kid who came of age in the '80s saw this multiple times, like a rite of passage, so there's a certain amount of nostalgia at play that's tough to overstate. It looks like the '80s, acts like the '80s, most definitely sounds like the '80s, and that feels intrinsically warm and welcoming to middle-agers like me. Hey, I can still remember seeing boxes of Transformers in the kid's temporary bedroom, cheap trinkets to make him feel at-home inside the cold government testing facility, and wishing we could swap places.
Viewing it now, as an adult, I think the aura is nice and enjoyed the entry-level explanation of how light speed travel can cause such weird time paradoxes. But, despite the intriguing premise and challenging first act, the plot doesn't really go anywhere spectacular. All the momentum pushes us toward the ship, yet when we finally climb aboard, there isn't much to see. After ogling all the chrome fixtures, making nice with the AI (voiced by an ascending Paul Reubens) and browsing an onboard zoo of Muppet critters, we just sort of joyride around the country for a little while, dodge a few helicopters and go home. I thought it was building to something more consequential.
Enjoyable enough.
'Flight of the Navigator' features an interesting concept which they bring to life rather well. It isn't anything special and it could've probably been more thrilling, but it still produces a fine 90 minutes. The special effects haven't aged amazing, yet they still suitably serve the intended purpose.
Joey Cramer is good in the lead role as David, while Paul Reubens is fairly amusing as Max. A young Sarah Jessica Parker (Carolyn) also appears. The film doesn't quite hit the intended heartfelt spots with the plot, but there is an element of care for David from me in there minorly; if only at the end.
Decent Disney.
This is one of my favorite movies from the 80’s. It is Back to the Future meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
I am glad the rumored remake never happened, not yet anyway. This movie isn’t too outdated despite aliens that look like finger puppets.
Just watched it for the first time in almost two decades and I thought there would be more adventures in the ship than there really is.
next to E.T. one of my favorite classic sci-fi movies...
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This is still one of the coolest, most original spacecrafts in all of science fiction.