Flight Of The Navigator (DVD)

This is a wonderful 1986 film from the Walt Disney studios that captures some magic with its sci-fi elements and caters for audiences of all ages, and classes as a family film. The Plot David is a 12-year-old boy who bickers with his 8-year-old brother but is generally content with his life with his mum and dad as well. Out looking for his brother one evening, he stumbles and falls, knocking himself out. Waking up what he feels is a couple of hours, he realises he has been gone 8 years, but has not aged one bit! As his family and scientists struggle to find out what happened, the discovery of a flying saucer seems to have a link to David not aging, ...

Flight of the Navigator is one of those rare breaths of fresh air you get when a movie studio actually comes up with something original that appeals to all ages. Surprisingly, this offering is from Walt Disney Studios, but it is their least formulaic live action film of the 1980's, harking back to the quality of their cinematic hey day of the 50's and '60's. The film It is 1978 and the setting is Ft Lauderdale, Florida, and the film begins with two brothers on an outing with their parents, watching dogs catch Frisbees on the 4th of July. The 12 year old older brother, David, says he is going to teach the family dog this trick, and of course the younger ...

I've been watching this movie since I was a kid. It seems that at least every 1 or 2 years, BBC ONE always decide to put Flight Of The Navigator on again. I assume they think we've suffered the same memory loss as the main character in the film! Flight of the Navigator tells the tale of 12 year old boy David Freeman. One evening when he goes out looking for his younger brother, David falls down a deep ditch and injures himself. He later wakes up for his unconciousness, assuming it is just a few hours later, and returns home. But to his shock, there are strange people living in his house niow. And in fact, David's family have moved away. As time ...