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SpaceCamp shares a striking similarity to Ron Howard's Apollo 13--it's about NASA trying to bring some people down from outer space, except in this case 13 represents the median age of those in danger. Kate Capshaw plays Andie, who throws off the curve by being on the high end of that age scale. She's always a bridesmaid, but never a bride in the shuttle program, an astronaut doomed to play wet nurse to a gaggle of kids enrolled in NASA's summer program. Of course, out of all these teeming hordes of children (there don't appear to be any particular qualifying standards to attend the camp), the film focuses on five. Kathryn (Lea Thompson) is a hopeful pilot who wants to be at the controls of the shuttle one day. Tate Donovan plays Kevin, a daft young carouser who is supposed to be so incorrigible he's winning (he's not). Kelly Preston is Tish, a valley girl with a photographic memory, and Larry B. Scott is Rudy. Rudy's there to meet the Hollywood quota for capsule diversification, but neither he nor Trish does much. Most oddly, Joaquin Phoenix is Max, the young Star Wars nut whose brain and fast friendship with a NASA robot get them all sent into orbit. It's unfortunate that a lot of topical swear words are peppered throughout SpaceCamp, as it could operate as a diverting night's watch for the young astro-nut in your house. Director Harry Winer, who rose from television and sank back to television after this film stiffed over the summer of 1986, directs in 20-minute blocks like he's pacing himself for a commercial break. Once the embarrassing, extremely '80s, opening 40 minutes are dispensed with, however, and the crew accidentally gets blasted into space, the effort to return home is involving, even if it is pretty silly. SpaceCamp won't win any merit badges for script writing, acting, or direction but it's got the right li'l Camp NASA spirit. --Keith Simanton
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SPACECAMP
Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Release Date: 0000-00-00
Media Type: DVD
SKU:GMDB2288583
Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Release Date: 0000-00-00
Media Type: DVD
SKU:GMDB2288583
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Format:DVD
Awesome! Movie is better than I remember from when I watched it as a kid. I think it's because, if memory serves me right, you get a better "visual" of the shuttle on the DVD. ON the old VHS, you got a cheap 8-bit computer graphic. If memory serves. Excellent plot. Parental advisory: Teenage extra is seen momentarily in her panties.
By G. Cannucci
Format:DVD
The whole family enjoying watching it, especailly my older daughter who is very interested in entering the space program later on.
By SpaceBoy
Format:DVD
And this one time...at Space Camp...I kissed a girl under the SRBs (Solid Rocket Boosters)...and I got to go around and re-live different scenes from the movie, especially repeating all of Leaf Phoenix's star wars references during mission simulations..it was too much fun...LOL...but still true... Certainly, there are tons of things wrong about the movie that would never happen at Space Camp or in real life, but that's hollywood and that's what makes it fun. And when this was made, Space Camp itself was a pipe dream for many kids and the lucky few who got to attend as youngsters were treated like Gods, and are still revered today, so this movie was a way for us poor folks to go to camp without forking out the bucks. Therefore to those of us who actually grew up in the 80's and remember seeing this move in the theater and the excitement of a space shuttle launch and still have dreams of being an astronaut, and for those of us who have worked at Space Camp its' definately a priceless jewel in the DVD treasure chest.
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Finally a DVD version that works!
Great Movie!! Up there with the Goonies!! And this DVD Disc Works!! Thanks MGM!
Published on Mar 10 2004 by Patrick Michaud
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When i was about 5 years old i descovered this wonderful movie. It was a copy that my parents had recorded years ago off of HBO. Read more
Published on Dec 23 2003 by T. Stewart
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Great Movie, I've been looking for it for ages, and I was thirlled to find it on DVD. However, the version done by Anchor Bay Entertainment does not work on either DVD players I... Read more
Published on Nov 18 2003 by Patrick
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I never dealt with nicer people. I think I will be ok and I will get my moneys worth now. Read more
Published on Aug 13 2003 by C. Paul
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Tacky and Fun!
"Space Camp" is an overly eighties, tremendously cheesy, but over-all enjoyable film about a handful of random, young space-campers who accidentally get blasted off into... Read more
Published on Aug 10 2002 by Suzie
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun and silly, but wholly unrealistic and ridiculous
I saw this film when it came out on video in the United States in the mid 1980s. It was mere months after the Challenger disaster and the U.S. Read more
Published on May 7 2002
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Don't like science fiction, you'll still love this movie!
I was only 6 when this movie came out, but I still remember the first time I watched it. And 12 years later, when I got to go to Cape Canaveral and visit with NASA people, I... Read more
Published on Dec 6 2001 by Yolanda
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A definitive 1980s space kid-flick!
This movie was released in the UK in 1987 straight to video, because of the Challenger disaster a year before, and one could say it could even provide younger space buffs an... Read more
Published on Oct 29 2001 by Mr N Forbes-warren
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Childhood dreams come true for everyone in space camp.
As a child I would look up at the stars and wonder what it would be like to go up there, even if it was for a day. Read more
Published on July 21 2001 by Thomas Coon
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