The people who wrote this movie must have taken their potential audience to be idiots. I first saw this bomb in 1986, when I was 12. If memory serves, I felt insulted. The storyline was incredibly stupid, and unrealistic. Granted, at that time I was following the space program pretty closely, as a lot of kids were. The space shuttle was still a big deal, and the Challenger accident was still a fresh memory.
I'm not sure if U.S. Space Camp thought this was a good advertising vehicle for their program or not. Honestly, spending the summer with this pack of idiots would have turned me off completely. Perhaps the exception would be the character played by Larry B. Scott. Perhaps I just loved "Revenge Of The Nerds". Lea Thompson's character was slightly tolerable in her seriousness, but this was a far cry from 1984's "Red Dawn" or "Back To The Future" trilogy. A paycheck, I guess.
The producers must have thought they were producing Shakespeare and needed to cheer it up a bit. This can be the only reason for the inclusion of Leaf Phoenix's insanely irritating character, Max, and the stupid robot. Enough said. In my recent screening, I kept looking for obvious evidence that his scenes had been edited in. No such luck. What grating nonsense. The robot scenes had me squirming in my seat.
Watch this movie if you need to revisit the mid-80's, or need to induce vomiting. You've been warned.
I'm not sure if U.S. Space Camp thought this was a good advertising vehicle for their program or not. Honestly, spending the summer with this pack of idiots would have turned me off completely. Perhaps the exception would be the character played by Larry B. Scott. Perhaps I just loved "Revenge Of The Nerds". Lea Thompson's character was slightly tolerable in her seriousness, but this was a far cry from 1984's "Red Dawn" or "Back To The Future" trilogy. A paycheck, I guess.
The producers must have thought they were producing Shakespeare and needed to cheer it up a bit. This can be the only reason for the inclusion of Leaf Phoenix's insanely irritating character, Max, and the stupid robot. Enough said. In my recent screening, I kept looking for obvious evidence that his scenes had been edited in. No such luck. What grating nonsense. The robot scenes had me squirming in my seat.
Watch this movie if you need to revisit the mid-80's, or need to induce vomiting. You've been warned.