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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 6169
Released: March 2, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Zero gravity meets zero fear in this cosmic comedy-adventure about a summer camp where regular kidscheck in and real astronauts check out! Starring Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Leaf Phoenix and Tate Donovan, SpaceCamp is a wild and wonderful thrill-ride packed with 'special effects'spectacular moments (Film Journal) and a gripping climax (Time Out) that's out of this world! For five typical teens, NASA's space camp promises to be a fun wayto blow off the summer. But when a space shuttle exercise misfires, they find themselves launched into orbit, facing the adventure of a lifetime. Now, the only way back to Earth is to take command ofthe ship and control of their destinies, before timeand oxygenrun out!
Description of Space Camp:
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
Space Camp Reviews:
Great Movie 
2009-11-04 - I bought this movie for my son. I loved this movie as a kid so I knew he would love it. I was right. It kept his attention all the way through. I would suggest this movie for anyone who loves space.
Memory Lane... 
2009-09-14 - I loved Space Camp the movie when it first came out. It was mainly filmed in my home town of Huntsville, AL about the same time that I went to Space Camp. At the time, a lot of the stuff you see in the movie really happened at camp (leaving out the poet license and plot devices of course!). What I didn't remember is ALL THE LANGUAGE that's in this movie! My oldest son went to Space Camp for the 1st time this summer (which is even more incredible now than it was then & I worked there in college too). I got the movie (faster than Amazon estimated) after he came back. He invited his best friend to come over and together with the rest of my kids watched this movie. My eyes were about to pop out of my head at all the foul language! Still like the movie but as a parent, really hate the language and would never have bought it for him had a known! I'd prefer to give it 2.5 stars but will round up for nostalgia's sake).
"Whip me, beat me, take away my charge cards... NASA is talking!" 
2009-08-02 - I've always had a soft spot for this 80's family movie. It's perhaps even more enjoyable today, simply to see the younger Kelly Preston, Joaquin Phoenix and Lea Thompson playing hapless spacecamp kids trying to find their way home after a routine excursion accidentally catapults them into orbit!
In SPACECAMP, Kate Capshaw stars as Andie, still nursing a bruised ego in her failure to land a spot in the space programme, and less than thrilled about spending her summer "babysitting" at SpaceCamp. When Andie and her motley gang of students (Tate Donovan, Kelly Preston, Joaquin 'Leaf' Phoenix, Lea Thompson and Larry B. Scott) are forced to actually launch the spaceship in which they are touring because of an overheat malfunction, they band together in their quest to return home.
It's a really fun movie. Wish there was some kind of reunion audio commentary included (like on "The Goonies" DVD), but I doubt this film has enjoyed the same kind of combined popular and cult following.
excellent movie
2009-07-31 - this was for my child, who watced it at the movies theater and always wanted a coy of the movie thank-you
Space Camp
2009-07-01 - This is a great movie for the whole family. It has comedy, drama, adventure, and a great blend of science fiction and science reality.
