Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

This is an old movie, but it's so cool. I bought this movie on DVD when our family took our summer vacation to Idaho in August. I needed some new movies for the kids to watch in the car, and I found this one in the sale bin at WalMart.

If you've never seen The Explorers, you need to see it. It's like The Flight of the Navigator or The Last Starfighter (which you should also see). It's a fun kids movie from the eighties that is just scifi enough and just silly enough to work. It's probably best for boys between 4 and 12 or so. My three-year-old son loves it.

The movie stars Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix when they were both fourteen years old. It's a space adventure from the mind of a kid and it's a lot of fun. It's an eighties movie, so beware ... even though it's rated PG, it shows the boys drinking beer. Gasp!

This is one of my favorite kid scifi movies from that era. It's pretty corny to watch now, but it's still a lot of fun. 1.75π.

Quick add to your Netflix.com queue:
   The Explorers
   The Flight of the Navigator
   The Last Starfighter