Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

markscheppmann Well. This is the first movie review that I am not reviewing the movie so much as I am reviewing the movie reviewers. Or more or less reviewing people. I am reading several movie reviews of this movie Explorers and astounded. Very crappy and basically stupid people. Unlike the movie reviewer who says, "I like this better than E.T." Unlike the movie reviewer who says that this was good about halfway through. I am going to say that this movie was created as a test to see how stupid people are. Basically this movie to me proves why people are morons. Seriously.This movie is not comparable to E.T. So I say shut up to that person. This movie really started to get good about five sixths of the way into it. And then before you know it the movie is over. Actually near the end it started to remind me of HitchHiker's guide to the Galaxy. Or George Noory who has constantly said on his show coast to coast that he wonders if there aren't a lot of malevolent aliens out there. And if the Universe is just one big eating contest. Of a big bad fish getting eaten by a bigger badder fish, and a bigger badder fish and so on. So the person who said this movie was good about the first half and then turned into crap. That person is a moron. People are morons. The movie exposes that.The cool puppeteering is like four sixths to five sixths into the movie. And then there are some comical singing of aliens and mesmerized looks of the child actors, notably Ethan Hawke, has the face that I have now as an adult when watching this. Like, What the heck is going on? All of this is in the second half of the movie. However maybe the moron reviewer meant that this movie fails to make an appropriate or congealing connection between the first half of the movie and the second half of the movie. That is so. There is a poorly executed connection between the boys making the spaceship at the beginning to them actually going into outer space near the end. I find this kind of a flaw in a lot of Joe Dante Movies. His movies tend to look way different in the end than in the beginning. Almost like in every Joe Dante movie, including gremlins you are watching two different movies and a poorly executed mechanism of connecting the two. I just usually assume whenever I see Mr. Fudderman (Dick Miller, in all) that he is the indicator that the movie is about to change into something else. Usually something very bizarre and macabre.Well don't go by the morons movie reviews. Spielberg is no way mentioned or involved with this project, so don't even mention him. Just watch the movie. And know that there is a good 100 percent chance that you are more intelligence than 99.9 percent of all of the movie reviewers who have seen this. Oh yeah, this movie could have been way better, in my opinion if they stuck with the creepy alien route and added more song and dance numbers. And basically STARTED at the five sixths of the way into it. Michael Reed you are dumb as a stoned panda or jerboa. Anyway I am glad that the movie didn't start when it actually started to get good and go on the same narrative because it could have been a hundred times scarier than the Howling. Really show Joe Dante's Dark ethos.Atreyu (unimaginative screen name) the aliens don't ruin this. The aliens are where the movie could have been good. Crawl under a rock and ask the pill bugs to feed you more poor words. You favorite word is the word right? Eh cough Nancy Pelosi. You didn't see that the aliens were a parody on Nancy Pelosi and the do nothings in congress. Joe Dante has wit you people don't.

Michael Davies Im a massive fan of 80s movies, i love everything 80s. But this movie has aged and is almost un watchable once the boys arrive on the ship. Everything up until then is quite good, the plot is a typical 80s adventure, but once they actually meet the aliens it ruins the film for me and is just far too silly and unrealistic to watch in this day and age. Its a shame because it could have been up there with the monster squad, the goonies and stand by me, but unfortunately it just went a little it too far with the aliens and silly humour and for me thats why it makes it un appealing in this time

LukeDSimpson It's really pretty fun at first, chugging along with 80's charm, and then… BIZARRO WORLD. What. the. heck. The last half hour goes completely off the rails. I guess there was studio trouble, but they still designed what they designed at the end there. It hurt to watch. It especially hurt to listen to it - it was like they told Robin William's not-as-funny cousin to just yell things for 20 minutes, then didn't edit ANY of it out, then added a bunch of TV screens flashing static and super-saturated, washed-out clips of explosions or people yelling or other chaotic things. I kept going and finished it just to be able to say I did, but it actually made my stomach hurt. It was harder to watch than a lot of horror movies I've seen. It was like watching Transformers, except with nasty puppets instead of at-least-it-looks-sorta-cool CGI. It was a little difficult to think a clear thought afterward. I felt like I was going insane.

gavin6942 Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke), an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang (River Phoenix) and Darren set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the aliens Ben hopes they would find... but are they what they seem? Joe Dante is an interesting character. Rising from the films of Roger Corman, he has made some of the great horror films -- "Howling", "Piranha" and "Gremlins". But he also has made some classic kid movies. While it is not strange for someone to make different kinds of films, it is interesting to see how one mind can approach two very different ideas. (Though we are treated to a newspaper that suggests "Explorers" exists in the same world as "Gremlins".) Along with "Flight of the Navigator", this was one of the two great kids-meet-aliens movies of the 1980s. You could possibly add "Mac and Me", but to include that in there would be giving it too much credit. Allegedly, the studio finished the film without Dante and what we see is basically a work print. If that is true, it is a darn fine work print. What more would Dante have done? Interestingly, a different but related theme was explored by Bob Balaban in his episode of "Amazing Stories" this same year (called "Fine Tuning"). They would make an excellent double feature.