Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

0.5/4It should be noted by everyone: 1 year after Joe Dante's big hit Gremlins, his stupid-funny Christmas monster movie, he comes back again with a HUGE failure. This piece of cinematic sin is known as "Explorers". Explorers is also the acting debut of now mainstream Ethan Hawke.It starts off centering around three outcast kids who are obsessed with science fiction. These kind of kids are not the kind that drive you to pity out of their shear social incompetence (sort of like Ronald Miller in "Can't Buy Me Love"), they simply don't fit into a niche and you're not poked at enough to care. They find a mystery blueprint and build a spaceship, and when they find the source of the blueprint....Well, I'm not going to spoil the ending. If you are able to stand the pointlessness that comes beforehand, you will be able to know the outcome. I will tell you this, it is the simple most sorry excuse for a climax in film history. I stand by everything I have just said. In the final 20 minutes, the lead boy (what's his name?) says "this is....not what I was expecting" in kind of a dismal tone. If the dang character is upset with the outcome, you ought to be too.The reason this is not one of my all time least-favorite movies (the ONLY reason) is because Joe Dante does have a sense of direction in this film....or maybe it should make me more scared to know he was present.

I only watched this movies because of river phoenix he is such a great actor and the other kids were good too, the storyline is nice I really liked it i was enjoying everything until the aliens showed up it was so unnecessary I really hate the fact that they met up with the aliens it's so stupid i literally skipped half of the aliens scenes I couldn't bear to watch it. honestly the movie could've been better but the alien thing ruined the whole movie

This time around Mock Films Blog will be reviewing a film that I hadn't seen growing up but always heard good things. The movie in question being the young adult Sci-Fi adventure Explorers (1985) directed by the ever entertaining Joe Dante. When three kids played by Ethan Hawk, River Phoenix (in their first on screen roles), and Bobby Fite have similar (Tron-like) dreams, they unlock the blueprint for a device which can create a bubble that can travel through space without the feeling of inertia. (Yeah, I know right?) A kid's flick with high brow concepts. How have I gone so long without watching this movie?Ten minutes in and it had me. I'll say it, I'm a complete ass for not enjoying this when I was young. It holds up (Kinda. I'll get to that.). This gem would have embedded itself into my nostalgia collection, much like Gremlins (1984) (another Joe Dante classic, which also stars the director's favorite reoccurring actor, the wonderful Dick Miller), The Goonies (1985) (which scared the crap out of me at the the age of six), and The NeverEnding Story (1985) (crazy Germans at their best). Are we seeing a pattern here with the years of release. This movie goes into that pantheon of films that are just enough on the fringes of weird that it works. A staple of film in that era—

This is by no means the best kids film of the 80s, but it is in the top 10 on my list.The story follows three boys who through a dream build a new program that creates a corporeal sphere that takes them and their newly built spaceship out of junkyard pieces into the far reaches of space.It's definitely a kids film, but also a good film altogether for people who like this sort of genre. The film in my eyes starts out pretty good then sort of drifts away when you get to see the creature in the film, which was a little corny in my eyes, but hey it's 80s.If your looking for some vintage kid movies to watch from the 80s then this is a pretty good choice to make.