Explorers

Explorers is a film of the 1980s.

Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) keeps having a dream about travelling over a circuit board. He then draws it and shows it to his brainy friend Wolfgang, who builds the board which is able to create a force field bubble. The two boys, along with help from their new tough friend Darren, decide to build a spaceship out of old amusement park ride parts that when used with their new found technology gives them the ability to travel into space.

They create a spaceship and call it the "Thunder Road", and they fly into space. Not long afterwards, they explore an alien spacecraft that they get sucked into.

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Tropes used in Explorers include:
  • Acting for Three: The film is basically one huge showcase for Robert Picardo's comedic talents. He's Wak, Wak's Father, and "Starkiller" in the movie playing at the drive-in... at least.
  • Angrish: Some of the stuff the alien dad says is clearly this. Especially when Neek looks a bit lovey-dovey at Wolfgang.

"WOLFGANG?! WOLFGANG?! IBBA WARBA GUNNA WOLFGANG!!!"

Ben: So, what'd you tell them about the basement?
Wolfgang: I told them it was a rocketry experiment. I just mentioned Wernher von Braun, and everything was OK.

  • Humanoid Aliens: Two arms (unless you count the tiny ones where ears should be), two legs, one head... Ignore the difference in size...
  • Interspecies Friendship: The goal of the aliens, basically.
  • Interspecies Romance: What Neek seems to want with Wolfgang...
  • Jerkass: The father alien.
  • The Mothership
  • No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Wolfgang apparently didn't keep any of the paper drawings of the circuit or make any backups of the computer programs... once the program is cleared from the computer on the Thunder Road and it crashes, no one thinks to just build another one. (Of course theoretically it might be that Wolfgang couldn't afford a new computer for awhile, they weren't exactly cheap at the time.)
  • Popcultural Osmosis: Pretty much how the aliens pick up stuff about Earth.
  • Puppy Love: Ben is just a hair too old for his crush on Lori to be precocious.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ben's response to the father alien's refusal to let the kids stay. And for being an all around jerk.
  • Shout-Out: Many many. The movie is littered with them, mostly as a result of the aliens' absorption of Earth culture, starting with Wolfgang's mouse Heinlein, and the Thunder Road.
  • Space Pirates: The explanation given by Wak for the aliens' father's ship engulfing theirs.
  • Talking in Your Dreams: The alien communications.
  • The Unintelligible: The alien father, mainly because he's speaking his native tongue. Wak and Neek get some unintelligble time in, too, arguing with him.
  • Younger Than They Look: The aliens. Despite being the size of human adults, they're actually kids about the same relative age as the boys.
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