Explorers

1985 • 109 minutes

About this movie

In their makeshift laboratory, three boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.

Ratings and reviews

'Gremlins' Director Joe Dante's loveletter to his childhood nostalgia. Overflowing with Speilbergian sentimentality, especially in its musical score and camera work. I've been a fan of Explorers since I first watched it on HBO as a kid way back in the 80s. Watching this film today, it still has the ability to transport me back to that magical childhood mindstate. Bursting with movie clips, sound bites, magazine covers; all from 50s era space Sci-fi films. Timeless classic, better than E.T. imo👍

Love this movie. ...saw it as a kid and really enjoyed it. The storyline is fluid yet the movie has the awkward geekyness we've all experienced as tweens

This is the movie that made me think, they're just like us, when I was a teenager (yes, I bought the book at SHOPKO). Still love everything about this flick. 5* forever, I will never forget this movie.