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- 1986
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 34 m
- 1986
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 34 m
Summary In a post-apocalyptic future ruled by the military, a group of renegade teenage orphans find a legendary orb, Bohdai, that can supposedly bring the rain back to dried up Earth.
Directed By: Alan Johnson
Written By: Walon Green, D.A. Metrov
- 1986
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 34 m
- 1986
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 34 m
Solarbabies
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Summary In a post-apocalyptic future ruled by the military, a group of renegade teenage orphans find a legendary orb, Bohdai, that can supposedly bring the rain back to dried up Earth.
Directed By: Alan Johnson
Written By: Walon Green, D.A. Metrov
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
80% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
24
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
80% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Richard Jordan, who can be uniquely menacing (see: The Mean Season, Flash of Green) is here reduced to lampooning himself in leatherette storm-trooper garb. Charles Durning, looking wonderfully rumpled as the warden of the orphanage, does as little as possible in the heat. The skating stunts are routine. [2 Dec 1986, p.B4]
Solarbabies is a hilariously bad movie that doesn't make much sense and isn't much good when it does. Director Alan Johnson has stolen most of his visual ideas from Ridley Scott ("Blade Runner") and George Miller ("The Road Warrior"), and he hasn't the slightest idea how to direct actors. That said, the movie has its campy pleasures.
All-purpose sci-fi rip-off, set on a planet where evil Jordan lords it over a cadre of roller-skating minor brat-packers who call on ancient mystical force - 'Bodhi' - to escape his sway. A misbegotten Brooksfilm which sank without trace in the US.
There are times when it appears that Solarbabies might be sending itself up. All of the time, it's an embarrassment.
The movie's most original features are the awfulness of the dialogue and the hamminess of Richard Jordan's performance as a Nazilike policeman. He seems to have given up on the project long before director Alan Johnson ran out of film. [28 Nov 1986, p.39]
The acting is lame and the rehashed script is silly. The film drags on and on until its obvious and none-too-thrilling conclusion. This is a film to punish the kids with if their behavior grows intolerable.
Away, away with all of you and your sorry master, director Alan Johnson, whose every prospect for future employment in this darkling realm of TV pilot failure must be waning by the hour.
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Production Company
Brooksfilms,
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Release Date Nov 26, 1986
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Who will rule the future?
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
