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I love this movie so much

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) is a 50s sci-fi fan. He has dreams of flying over a circuit board. At school, tough kid Darren Woods saves him from bullies. His nerdy friend Wolfgang Muller (River Phoenix) builds the circuit board from his dream. He connects it to a computer which starts reprogramming itself and forms an indestructible sphere. The boys use the sphere to build their own spaceship. They travel into space and are taken into an alien spaceship. They find aliens who watch too much TV.It's mostly a fun children's adventure movie. It's got future stars Hawke, Phoenix and Amanda Peterson. It builds up to something great but the drama stops in the spaceship. The aliens are wacky but there isn't any story there. The last act needs to be bigger. There needs to be some sort of danger.

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.

What a wkd film! Ben(Ethan hawk) starts having surreal dreams of flying and gets a vision through his dreams of a spaceship. when he wakes up Ben, his inventor friend Wolfgang(river phoenix) and Darren(Jason Woods),who helped Ben get rid of some bullies, build the spaceship and go to space to find out who sent them the message. A long the way all kinds of cool things happen. Drive in movie mayhem, flying round the town testing the ship and causing madness. Dick Miller has a great part in this! Joe Dante Kicks ass as usual. If you like Flight of the Navigator, E.T. you will love this. If I was a kid I would of given this 10

This adventurous space tale stars River Phoenix as Ben whose dreams become a reality when along with two friends , River Phoenix , Jason Presson , create an interplanetary spacecraft in their makeshift laboratory to travel for other worlds . Ben Crandall is a young visionary who dreams of space travel while watching late-night B Sci-Fi movies , pouring over comic books, and playing computers games in the confines of his bedroom . Meantime, at college takes place the usual student problems , Bulies versus Neds and antics for the eggheads . The big time comes when they actually succeed in making a working spacecraft and set off for other planets . Amusing family fare about three young boys who use a contraption from their homemade laboratory undergoing several adventures and it turns out to be a crossover between Sci-Fi adventure and a teenager angst movie . This entertaining film displays emotion , sense of irony , ordinary schoolroom antics , parental troubles , puppy love , rip-roaring adventure and results to be pretty funny . Good trio formed by young stars as Ethan Hawke , River Phoenix and Presson as misfit best friends . The likable trio of suburban kids seeking alien life , they have fun as the teenage astronauts . Nicely main cast and agreeable supporting cast with Dana Ivey , James Cromwell , Mary Kay Place , Danny Nucci , Robert Picardo and Dick Miller, a secondary actor usual of Roger Corman and Joe Dante, among others. Effects are top-notch, the puppets Aliens are well brought to life, they're made by I.L. M. , George Lucas' Industrial Light Magic and magnificent make-up by expert Rob Bottin . Primitive visual effects by means of ancient computer generators .Colorful and brilliant cinematography by John Hora . Special mention to musical score by great Jerry Goldsmith .The motion picture was well told and imaginatively realized by director Joe Dante ; displaying his characteristic surreal wit and sense of amusement . Dante's most hits took place when found himself working alongside Steven Spielberg, John Landis and Australian director George Miller for the anthology movie ¨The Twilight Zone, The Movie¨ (1983) in which Dante directed the third segment .Steven Spielberg then hired him to work as director for ¨Gremlins¨ (1984) which was another box-office success. He directed some episodes for the Sci-Fi series "Amazing Stories" before directing his next Science Fiction feature which was ¨Innerspace¨ (1987) which, whilst critically well reviewed, was another box office failure. After directing five episodes of "Eerie, Indiana", Dante returned to the big-screen with the well-received ¨Matinee¨ (1993), an affectionate period satire set in 1962 against the background of the Cold War. Dante spent the next several years working for television and directed a satire on politics with ¨The Second Civil War¨ (1997). Dante's next two films, ¨Small Soldiers¨ (1998), and ¨Looney Toons: Back in Action¨ (2004) garnered good reviews but were not commercial hits. He was recruited by Mick Garris to direct two episodes of the anthology series "Masters of Horror" (2005 and 2006): "Homecoming" a biting political satire and the first American film to deal with the Iraq War.