1986 Directed by Randal Kleiser
12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.
Joey Cramer Paul Reubens Veronica Cartwright Cliff DeYoung Sarah Jessica Parker Matt Adler Howard Hesseman Robert Small Jonathan Sanger Richard Liberty Raymond Forchion Cynthia Caquelin Ted Bartsch Brigid Cleary Michael Strano Parris Buckner Robyn Peterson Philip Hoelcher Julio Oscar Mechoso Butch Raymond Chase Randolph John Archie Tony Calvino Rusty Pouch Robert Goodman Peter Lundquist Jill Beach Kenneth Ian Davis Courtney Brown Show All…
Steve Maslow Robert J. Litt Elliot Tyson Emile Razpopov Dessie Markovsky Tim Webb Robert Wald Walter A. Gest
O Vôo do Navegador, De Kleine Astronaut, Navigator, Полет навигатора, Borta med tiden, El vuelo del navegante, Полетът на навигатора, Tilbage til virkeligheden, Der Flug des Navigators, Πτήση στο Άγνωστο, Le Vol du Navigateur, נווט מכוכב אחר, Navigatorov let, Gyermek az időben, ナビゲイター, 협곡의 실종, Ucieczka nawigatora, O Voo do Navegador, Zborul navigatorului, Полёт навигатора, Навигаторов лет, Політ навігатора, 飞碟领航员, 領航員
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This doesn't make a lick of sense, the kid is charitably speaking a total charisma-free brat, and the horrible psychic trauma this whole thing would have inflicted on this entire family is tantalizingly shrugged off. Loaded with incredible practical VFX. 7-year-old me wanted nothing more than to live this movie. There's even a part where he gets to go live at NASA and they give him his own room, a waitress with a robot, a TV, and a bunch of toys. He seems not that into it!
A true childhood staple of mine. I somehow never owned this over the years so I treated myself to the blu ray. I remember watching this countless times on TV in my youth. I think it used to play on the Sunday night Disney programming way back when. Pure 80s nostalgia and a perfect Sunday afternoon flick.
This viewing held up pretty well. I'm always taken back to how much the plot messed me up as a youngin. The idea of coming home and finding different people living in your home was horrifying. And then finding out your family is 8 years older but you are the same little twerp?? Fuhgetta bout it!
This movie is mad cheesy but it's…
👍🏻70%
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In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship.
In this classic adventure, a young boy goes through a sequence of wild events to discover that there is so much more beyond the world that he knows. I could easily see this being one that intrigued yet frightened young kids in the 80’s. In the vein of E.T. (just four years prior), a young boy is caught in the midst of this Government project surrounding alien activity. He mysteriously travels to the future and sees older versions of everyone that he loves, and this had to feel like a revolutionary thought…
Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.9
I was rewatching this this afternoon because someone mentioned it somewhere in a thread here on Letterboxd. It was naptime here in my house and with everyone asleep I somehow found myself lured to this film.
Halfway through I already knew my love for this film hadn't died one bit. It is a fast paced, fun and really well made boy's adventure. I was transported to those days when I watched this a lot when I was a kid with the greatest of ease. This film still seemed to fit me like a favourite pair of shoes, well worn but unbelievably comfortable.
And then my four year old daughter came downstairs as she…
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Damn! Disney used to be ruthless, what happened to them? They don't make movies like this anymore!
Too busy with their uninspired mediocre/crappy remake/sequel cash grabs. What a shame because Flight of the Navigator is more original than almost anything they've done in years!
This was my E.T. growing up! A childhood favorite I hadn't seen or even thought of in a million years, that even if you completely took away the nostalgia factor would still be a super fun, touching, sci-fi family flick! If I had kids I'd make em sit down and watch it with me! (But I don't have kids and that's ok, I use all that extra disposable…
Well that was a fun boy and his pet spaceship-styled ... wild ride ... of a sci-fi family adventure!
"See ya later, Navigator!"
Young David Freeman thought he had just gotten knocked out in a ravine for a few hours ... until he discovers himself transported 8 years in the future with strange coding locked in his mind, and a sleek spaceship in search of a Navigator. I had always heard of this movie growing up, and it finally took the movie sitting right in front of me on Disney+ to finally check it out. And let's just say my son who always falls asleep at night watching movies, was glued to the screen for David's whole cosmic journey.
"All…
"You are the navigator!"
I loved this movie as a kid. I'm happy to report as a grown ass man, it still hits. I think even as a child something struck me with the darker undertones of the film. A child disappearing for 8 years is a lot. There is something uniquely sad about the first half of the film. I also appreciate how this film is paced. Most kid's films would be in a rush to get to the spaceship sequences. This takes it's time and develops a nice little story.
This had amazing special effects when it was first released and it still holds up today. Oh and it has some pretty amazing puppets. With a fun score, only a moderately obnoxious child actor, and the great Paul Reubens, Flight of the Navigator is nostalgia that holds up.
At first glance it looks like just another lazy post-E.T. childrens' films of the 1980s, but Flight of the Navigator has an intriguing premise that pushes it close to being a sci-fi mind-bender for kids: A boy who goes missing after searching for his kid brother in some dark woods, returns to his parents eight years later - except he hasn't aged a day.
This being a fun, live-action Disney movie, the horror of this mystery is kept in the background, but is clearly registered on the faces of the boy's parents. Their joy is mixed with shock and bewilderment, and a tearful David (Joey Cramer) - the boy from 1978 who woke up in 1986 - is palpably shaken…
First 30 min was amazing!!!
I feel if I was born 10/15 years earlier I would love this however just wasn’t for me . The opening was fantastic with great concept however once he began flying around i completely lost interest. Oh well I’ll stick to E.T
This has tons of charm to spare, but not much to engage beyond some cool puppets (who don’t appear onscreen for nearly long enough) and a super catchy synthesised score from Alan Silvestri. The poster suggests a classic time-warping adventure of epic proportions, so the eventual reveal that our adolescent protagonist has merely travelled 8 years into the future is a little underwhelming. The film doesn’t do the best job of differentiating the two time periods, other than the fact that the kid’s parents and brother have aged dramatically; though we are at least made aware that Starsky and Hutch isn’t showing on TV anymore, and that music videos have suddenly become a thing. Oh, and there are robotic dogs…
A creepy classic. Rewatched this in 2020 somewhere after not seeing it for like 25 years, caught it again today. Terrifying.
