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1. #EXPLORERS 1985 ROTTEN TOMATOES MOVIE#
2. #EXPLORERS 1985 ROTTEN TOMATOES PLUS#
3. #EXPLORERS 1985 ROTTEN TOMATOES TV#

Wolfgang builds an actual microchip based on Ben's drawings. Both boys meet punkish-but-likable Darren Woods, with whom they share their circuit-board concepts. At school, Ben develops a crush on Lori Swenson, but he is not sure whether it is mutual. Ben shows the sketches to his friend, child prodigy Wolfgang Muller. Every night, upon waking from the dream, he draws the circuit board.

#EXPLORERS 1985 ROTTEN TOMATOES MOVIE#

Sadly, it's the budget deficit that prevents EXPLORERS from being a true genre classic, but you can still rely on Dante to deliver an entertaining movie for the most part.Ben Crandall is a young teenage boy living in a fictional Maryland suburb, who experiences vivid dreams about flying through clouds and over a vast, city-like circuit board, usually after falling asleep watching old sci-fi films ( The War of the Worlds is a favorite).

#EXPLORERS 1985 ROTTEN TOMATOES TV#

Even now they disappoint, although I understand that they're included as a sort of satire of American TV and culture, but they take the film towards GREMLINS territory rather than a kid's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

#EXPLORERS 1985 ROTTEN TOMATOES PLUS#

Plus there's a decent-sized cameo from Dick Miller and James Cromwell cast against type as a mad inventor.Īlthough I never watched this film all the way through as a kid, I remember being put off by what I saw of the rubbery aliens. Dante did well to cast Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix in the main roles, as both show off the talent that would make them successful later on in their careers. There's plenty to like in EXPLORERS, not least the spirit of inventiveness and invention that allows the kids to build their own spaceship using trash and one of the most dated computers you'll see on screen (128k of memory? Wow!). In many ways it's similar in feel to THE GOONIES, made on a lower budget perhaps but without the cloying sentimentality that Spielberg brought to GOONIES. Saying that, EXPLORERS is still a decent kid's movie that manages to successfully capture that magical feel of danger and exploration of the best genre films. I'm a big fan of Joe Dante's oeuvre, although I'm more disposed towards his adult audience films (like PIRANHA and THE HOWLING) over his out-and-out kid's flicks.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Good-natured kid's flick But enough to show what fine entertainment Explorers Studio budget considerations and all we never get to see the total vision that The same concept was used as the frame of the Tim Allen comedy Galaxy Quest. Tells it better than what we like to entertain ourselves with. The two aliens encountered know all about us because nothing Beings from beyond our solar system are monitoring. Once broadcast and once into cyberspace things never really die.

They do build a contraption that possibly Rube Goldberg perfected decadesīefore. Add a third friend Jason Presson alongįor the ride and you have a neat kid's adventure tale with some very adult Help comes in the form of scientific genius River Phoenix who comes from aįamily of geniuses who are eccentric. Recurring dreams where he's designing space craft. Young Ethan Hawke really loves old science fiction from the 50s and he has some Page here there's enough of it to show the imagination of its creators in showing Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10 Where no kid has gone before?Įven though as I have learned that Explorers was released unfinished as per the

With the help of their new friend Darren Woods, they create a homemade spacecraft and embark on a secret adventure to another galaxy where they find that things are not always as different as they seem. But one night he has a vivid dream of flying over a space-like circuit board and shares his visions with his best friend Wolfgang Muller, a young scientific genius who is able to translate his dreams into a complex computer program that actually works. Ben Crandall is a young visionary who dreams of space travel while watching late-night B monster movies, pouring over comic books, and playing Galaga in the confines of his bedroom. This space adventure stars Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade laboratory.