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Wak speaks entirely in soundbites from American TV shows and Neek has a crush on River Phoenix.who is 12 years old. Onboard the spaceship they encounter a brother/sister alien duo named Wak and Neek. The kids are mad scared so they finally fly the tilt-a-whirl into outer space.where they are captured by a spaceship that looks suspiciously like a cock and balls (maybe this is the reason for the PG-13 rating?).
Now the government is after them.in particular the “goddamn foreign cars” guy from Gremlins. Unfamous kid says “smooth move, Ex-Lax!” I laugh. They get bored with that so they fly over to the drive in where River Phoenix accidentally crashes into the concession stand. Anyway! Their spaceship is good to go so they put that bitch in the bubble and take off screaming through the air.where they just kind of hover above local neighborhoods like 3 little non-gift bearing Santas. Or maybe it was the Gravitron? The one that spins. In other news: I totally horked after riding the tilt-a-whirl at the Auburn Mall carnival in 1988. Hawke tells the other kids he thinks they can fly that bubble into outer space ‘cuz of something he saw in a dream.so they steal an abandoned tilt-a-whirl cart from a junkyard and fashion it into a spaceship. Ethan Hawke flies the bubble up to a window to peep on the girl from Can’t Buy Me Love while she eats Boston Cream pie and listens to the Thompson Twins. Unfamous kid suggests they can put themselves in the bubble and creep on girls.so they do that. He’s all “don’t you guys realize what this means?” and then does not explain what it means. River Phoenix tells the other kids that he’s engineered some sort of bubble that can fly and crash through walls and shit.
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His dad is also the old man farmer from the movie Babe.
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Ethan Hawke has a nerdy friend named Wolfgang played by River Phoenix who has a full on 80’s movie laboratory in his basement. When he’s in math class and they ask him what the square root of 49 is he’s all “ummm.Mars?” At the beginning of the movie he gets his ass kicked by a school yard bully who looks at least 38.but he gets rescued by kid-from-a-broken-home ayed by a long retired child actor named Jason Presson. So here’s the deal: Ethan Hawke is this dorkus malorkus kid who has mad dreams about flying through space. Too bad too it could have been as good as E.T.or the aforementioned Space Camp (I friggin’ love Space Camp). Halfway through production the powers that be said “we need to put this movie out right now.so stop shooting and just give us what you got.” So the movie totally feels like it’s missing.something? They opened it on the same weekend as Live Aid and people stayed home in droves to watch Freddie Mercury rule ass.and Explorers flopped hard. I read up on the production of Explorers and what happened is this: the movie was directed by Joe Dante.who was hot off of Gremlins. The movie about the kids who fly a tilt-a-whirl into outer space? Must be as sick as it was when I was 7 years-old, right? mean…kind of. As luck would have it.last weekend I worked an estate sale at a $4 million dollar mansion.and they had a copy of the 1985 film Explorers on VHS (they had Space Camp too but some mother effer bought it). Last week someone asked me why I don’t feature more movies that aren’t, you know, completely unwatchable.