Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Wonderful Movie

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Always loved this Disney flick, great effects and adventurous plot that is kinda 'Back to the Future' mixed with 'Explorers' purely for kids with an extraterrestrial twist. The effects were fantastic for the time and it was the first film to use environment mapping, the CG was some of the first used in motion pictures!

When I was in kindergarten, I used to go to a place after school. This place would occasionally show us tykes movies. They showed us "E.T.", "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" and "The Little Mermaid" a few times. But they also showed us another movie. When someone said the title, it sounded to me like "How to Fight an Alligator". That made no sense to little old me, since I couldn't imagine why anyone would attempt to fight an alligator (I later found out that people DO in fact fight alligators, but I'm not going to try that).Anyway, the scenes that registered in my mind were: the boy looks for his brother and gets scared when someone jumps out of the tree; the boy returns home and finds a different family there; the boy hides in the machine to board the alien ship; the boy says "I promise" and the voice says "Don't know promise"; the boy calls the voice a geek; the voice says "You called me a geek!"; the boy wakes up again in the forest. Overall, I found it as entertaining as a six-year-old would find it.I later learned that the movie's title was "Flight of the Navigator". Now that I'm an adult, I've now seen it again. I found it to be one fun movie, the sort of thing that anyone would love to experience. Obviously I now recognize a young Sarah Jessica Parker. If the director's name rings a bell, it's because he also directed "Grease". I picture Randal Kleiser telling everyone "Respect the people playing the parents. Remember, the dad was in a band that performed with The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and the mom worked with Alfred Hitchcock."* Anyway, a really enjoyable movie. You're sure to love it.*Cliff DeYoung was a member of the '60s group Clear Light, which performed with the aforementioned people. Veronica Cartwright played Rod Taylor's niece in "The Birds".

What's strange about "Flight of the Navigator" is that it's really two different movies, and they work pretty well together. It's marketed as an adventure flick with a boy and his buddy robot spaceship, but that doesn't actually kick in for a good 45 minutes. Up until that point, David Freeman's an unsolved mystery, missing for 8 years, and there's some dramatic subject matter here for a kids movie (Disney, no less).But then they find each other and that's where the movie really gets its footing. Joey Cramer and Paul Reubens have a good working chemistry; Reubens (and some good puppeteering) breathe some real life into Max, I was surprised.This is one of those movies I'd watched a lot as a kid, and still holds up today. Mainly as an '80s movie. Even though David was a prisoner at NASA, they filled his room with some nice merch; that's what you tend to remember about a movie at that age. As an adult I wouldn't mind having his family's waterfront house. And that synth score really sticks out (this is a positive).It's a movie I did not mind revisiting.7/10

Joey Cramer, Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartwright and Howard Hesseman star in this 1986 sci-fi film. This starts in 1978, where we meet 12-year old boy, David Freeman (Cramer) and his family. After David is sent by his parents, Bill (De Young) and Helen (Cartwright) to bring his young bratty brother, Jeff home, David is mysteriously sent 8 years into the future by an alien spaceship. David discovers everyone is different accept him and tries to find the answers. Hesseman plays Faraday, a scientist who works for NASA and Paul Reubens plays the voice of alien, Max who helps and travels with David to get home. I've loved this film since I was a kid, Joey is great as David and Alan Silvestri's score is excellent. I recommend this 80's classic.