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Explorers
starring: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Bobby Fite, Bradley Gregg, Georg Olden
directed by: Joe Dante

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792197829
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792197828
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 3277
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1985

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Editorial Review:

Description:
EXPLORERS are the inventive story about three idealistic and thrill-seeking boys who combine their wits and astuteness to build their own spaceship. Accordingly, the boys blast-off into the galaxy and embark on journeys both whimsical and weird.

Amazon.com:
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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- EXPLORERS - Good family movie (for a sci-fi Dad)
EXPLORERS - was a very good family movie (four stars) that I first saw with my very young boys in the year it was made. As a family movie it was great and my boys were not disappointed with the (weak) ending. Of course, these kids spoke up in defense of MAGIC FLUTE when I quietly complained to my wife at the breakfast table about having to sit through that one.

This film had a good plot with lots of development, decent special effects, fine young actors (including young River Phoenix) ... Read More

Rating:

- great 80's Sci Fi movie, great kids movie also
The 80's was a good time to be a kid as far as movies went.

Speilberg's influence was big at that time, mainly due to "E.T.", a movie that had a big sense of innnocence and childlike wonderment. ET had a big influence on a lot of the other sci fi and fantasy movies that came out after it, for a number of years, including this film.

It was directed by Speilberg collaborator Joe Dante, & is for sure similar in many ways to "ET", but with a 50/50 blend of Spielbergian wonder ... Read More

Rating:

- Explorers
I give this a 4 instead of a five, because it did not hold the children's attention the way I like to see of a movie.
And my son said to me, "Mom what are you watching? It looks wierd."
4 is a good number, though, because it is cute with good messages woven in for the younger set.
There is a point in the movie when it seems that the writers don't know where to go with the story. That's when the costumes come in and are really extreme and distracting, from my point of view, but
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Rating:

- So close, yet so far
I stumbled upon this movie in our family's archive of recorded videos. I was caught into watching it from the very beginning, a great story, and the acting was good. Then in the last 30 min. of the movie everything went terribly downhill. Either someone was trying to make a point or they ran out of budget, but believe me this movie is not worth watching, well the end anyways. Watch it only up to the point where they get into space, then turn it off. You'll be much happier.

Rating:

- One of my childhood favorites
Explorers was one of the films that I loved in my childhood. The film which kinda flopped when released back in 1985 takes me back to when I was about 4 and realized I wanted to go into the movie making industry. While Ethan Hawke may have been the only one of three to make it big this is still a great movie and look for a young buy still sexy Amanda Peterson who would appear in the teen classic Can't Buy me Love two years later.

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