This Walt Disney 1986 movie about a twelve year old boy that gets to fly a spaceship from outer space. This was produced on a budget of $9m it went on to gross $18.5m at the box office, it starred Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff DeYoung, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Adler and the voice of Paul Reubens. It was a typical historic Walt Disney movie that played on the thoughts and dreams of children. Before the plot I will check in on the Tri-Critic Sync Challenge there was 7 points between me and IMDb with their 6.9/10 score but here was I thinking that I had over scored it and then I remembered that this is a Disney movie so lets see what Rotten Tomatoes gave it and they chipped in with a 84% some 15 points higher than the lowest, did I mention that this is a Disney movie?
The Plot! Twelve year old David Freeman walks through the woods to pick up his eight year old brother from a friend. He slips and falls down a ravine and is knocked out he wakes up 8 years later in 1986 but has not aged at all but the rest of his family has!! Including his now 16 year old younger brother. David is invited to NASA to see if they can discover the reasons behind his mysterious situation and in between times NASA have also captured a spaceship that has crashed to earth. David is taken to Dr Faraday who has been working on the ship since it arrived. The doctor discovers that David’s mind is full of advanced alien technological information. They work out that he was taken to a planet 560 light years away in just over two hours. They decide to keep David around but whilst there he re-establishes a telepathic link with the spaceship and its robotic commander Trimaxion Drone Ship or Max and it refers to David as the Navigator. The ship had returned to drop David back but crashing here has damaged the on board system meaning it needs the information in David’s mind to be able to return home. How will all this end, well you have to watch it to find out.
This movie has the hallmark classic 80’s kids film with Disney riding high on the back of it and rightly so. This is a classical 80’s kid movie. Disney used to know how to make good nah great kids movies they tailored their stories to hooking kids in and loving Disney forever. It is a shame that in my case they have completely ruined that mystic they had. Back in the day they just simply made good movies and stories just to be enjoyed rather than to teach you how you should be or act. Just being kind and nice should be enough for kids and should stop there and that is where the review will end as well.
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