Explorers, The

Made in 1985, this low budget pre-teen sci-fi is mostly a poor attempt to make a few bucks off of the "teen adventure" genre that was so popular after "Goonies". But "Explorers" doesn't manage to pull it off. Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix deliver horrible performances and Industrial Light and Magic should be ashamed to have worked on this film.

The premise of the film is that a boy has a dream of flying over a circuit board and when he wakes up he draws two resistors on a piece of paper and convinces his nerdy friend to build the "circuit." Once they build the circuit they realize that they have created a "force field" that they can control by hooking the circuit to an Apple IIc computer. Then, aliens take over the two resistors and send the kids off into space. Uh-huh. No I am not kidding.

The movie lacks in many ways. It makes no attempt to be realistic, believable or to draw you into the story in anyway. The acting is flat and pathetic. There is no emotion at all in the film and the characters have no natural interaction at all. Unless you have some nostalgic reason for watching this film or are on some mission to see every movie ever that includes Robert Picardo who played the hologramatic doctor on Star Trek Voyager, skip this movie.