The biggest problem with making a decision like that is you'll inevitably have a handful of viewers like me that completely buy into it, but I can only guess that many will wind up scratching their heads in confusion and wondering why the movie took such a drastic turn in a different direction. These are all elements that have crept into most of Joe Dante's other movies to some extent, but this is a rare instance where all of those influences are prominently on display in a single one of his films. On the other, I've had a lifelong fascination with camp, Chuck Jones, and vintage sci-fi. It works for me in part because it's so unconventional - the first time I saw Explorers, I didn't know what to expect when Ben, Wolfgang, and Darren stepped foot on the alien ship, but I definitely wasn't expecting that.
The transition between the two is jarring and unexpected.
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The tone takes a complete 180, with aliens sporting Saturday morning character designs and a penchant for quoting commercials, TV theme songs, and classic movie heroes verbatim. Once the main characters leave Earth behind and wind up speeding towards some uncharted point in space, Explorers becomes an almost different movie entirely. This part of the movie is mostly played straight, chronicling these three friends ditching their mundane suburban lives and crafting something fantastic and inconcievable. The first hour or so of Explorers has a wide-eyed awe and innocence about it. They're taken to the ship of the aliens that piped that data into Ben's head in the first place, and War of the Worlds it's not. Their inaugural trip starts to yank them off the planet, and against Wolfgang's insistence, their followup flight propels them deep into outer space. Ben uses the sphere to sneak a peek at the girl he's infatuated with ( Can't Buy Me Love's Amanda Peterson), and they raid a junkyard and spend every waking hour cobbling together an aircraft they can all ride in together. There, they discover that not only does Ben's schematic do something, but it has the ability to create a spherical force field that isn't mired by inertia. Ben also befriends Darren, a slightly bitter kid with an unpleasant homelife who tags along for a trip to Wolfgang's basement lab. He dreams of flying over a mammoth circuit board, which he sketches out as best he can to show to his egghead pal Wolfgang (River Phoenix).
Not only does the junior high schooler surround himself with comic books, novels, posters, and videos, the genre's even managed to lurch into his subconscious. Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) is a dreamer with a passion for science fiction.
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