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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 12 July, 1985 DVD Release : 19 October, 2004 |
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Explorers description 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Still Good |
| I haven't seen this in a very long time. I have to say, it still makes me laugh. Its effects still look pretty good today. The actors were all the right ones for the parts they played. It's a good romping movie. It's also, I think, everyone's dream when they are a kid. I mean, how many of us wished we could have done this? How many would have killed to do this? It's a good "family" movie as well. Yes, there is the scene where they sip from the beer, but it isn't like they are knocking back a six-pack. Most of it gets squirted around as if it were champagne anyway. It is still a very good movie even after all these years. | |
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