![]() ![]() ![]() Science-fiction geek and movie fanatic Ethan Hawke is clearly Joe Dante’s stand-in. It doesn’t age well to adult eyes today, but all three lead actors are still charming. When it’s over you feel like you somehow missed something. This is a film that sets you up for a hearty meal only to serve you some stale popcorn and half a Milky Way bar. With all of that stuff, nobody really cared how the story, uh, completely lacks a climax. The film also coasts on a Spielbergian sense of wonder and rides on a Jerry Goldsmith score full of lush orchestral moments and synthesizer crescendos. That audience was mostly kids who are always up for some special effects and misfit adolescent angst. Like most cult films of the time though, it eventually found an audience on video and cable. Paramount Pictures infamously rushed him through production, not caring that the script wasn’t finished, in order to make the July release date that their marketing gurus decided was the perfect day of the year to open a film about middle schoolers who figure out how to build a spaceship out of an old Tilt-A-Whirl car and then meet some friendly aliens who’ve been raised on TV signals from Earth. It’s the most flimsy kiddie adventure flick of the 80s-and that’s really saying something-but you have to go easy on director Joe Dante here.
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