I had never seen Flight of the Navigator up until a couple of hours ago. It came as a personal recommendation by my very good friend Michael Shreve, as he had nothing but great things to say about the movie. I will say that knowing this is a Disney movie, I immediately thought that there was no way this movie was going to let me down. I was right!
The beginning of the movie starts in the year 1978. David Freeman is playing outside with his brother Jeff. He falls into a ravine, and then mysteriously wakes up in the year 1986. However, what seems likes minutes to him has actually been eight years. He has no memory of how this happened. Unbeknownst to him, a spaceship picked him up when he fell. The on-board computer, Max, is collecting specimens from other galaxies to study, and David is one of them. However, because David's human body is too fragile to travel at lightspeed, the spaceship does not return him to the spot where he was taken from. This is why he wakes up in 1986. The two of them then engage in a magical adventure.
Director Randal Kleiser did a wonderful job directing this movie. The film is scary and fun all at the same time. The tone of the film is exactly what you would want from a Disney movie. It can be watched by children and adults alike.
It is very hard to find decent, let alone good, child actors in film. However, Joey Cramer did a wonderful job as David. I think part of the reason was that he was only thirteen years old, and sometimes when you are that young you have a better imagination than when you are an adult. He did a fantastic job, and his performance is very believable.
Paul Reubens does the voice of Max (although he is credited as Paul Mall). My favorite part of the movie is after Max scans David, Max becomes a more human computer that displays an actual personality. You can hear this wonderful change in his voice, and you can even catch that iconic Pee-Wee Herman laugh a few times.
Typical Disney goodness. Those three words describe this movie in a nutshell. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, and if you are a kid at heart than you will to. Thank you, Michael Shreve, for recommending this movie. I loved it!!
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