It's Sci-Friday: Family Movie Edition
For this Week's Sci-Friday I am giving you my top 5 Sci-Fi Family Movies
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ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
My mom showed me ET when I was very young, so young that watching this movie with her is one of my first memories.
She was excited to show me the story of ET, a friendly alien that gets left behind on earth only to meet a young boy named Elliot. My mom thought this would be a great movie to show me but much to her dismay, ET scared the crap out of me, at first. My fear of the unknown diminished once I realized that ET was not a scary monster, he was just a friend from another world.
ET is still one of my favorite movies to this day, and when I showed it to my son, he too was kind of scared at first but realized, just like I did, that ET was the last thing you should be scared of.
Honey I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Back in the day, I could think of nothing more fun than being shrunk down to an almost microscopic size and floating around a bowl of milk on a single Cheerio. That is until I realized that I could be eaten by an ant for dinner.
This film tells the tale of a mad scientist father Wayne Szalinski played by Rick Moranis who is one of the funniest people on the planet as well as being a stand-up guy.
Wayne, a struggling inventor accidentally shrinks his kids, along with the neighbors' kids, down to the size of a quarter-inch. After being accidentally thrown out with the trash, they must work together and venture their way back through a backyard wilderness filled with dangerous insects and man-made hazards.
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
David Freeman, a 12-year-old boy, was abducted by an alien spaceship and transported from 1978 to 1986. As he walks through the woods to pick up his 8-year-old brother, Jeff, from a friend's house, when he falls into a ravine and is knocked unconscious.
When he comes to, eight years have passed, and it is now 1986. He has not aged, and his appearance exactly matches his missing child poster. He is reunited with his aged parents and the now 16-year-old Jeff.
How did this happen? Having traveled faster than light, he has experienced time dilation, explaining how eight years have passed on Earth, but not for him. As NASA begins to study David he receives a telepathic message from the spaceship and decides to board the ship.
The ship is a Trimaxion Drone Ship that needs to extract the information that was put into David’s brain during the abduction to complete its mission and return home.
The Last Starfighter (1984)
You have been recruited to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada!
While Alex Rogan is playing an arcade game called Starfighter, unbeknownst to him he is being recruited to actually defend the frontier, in space!
After he gets the highest score ever recorded, the game’s inventor Centauri visits Alex and invites him to take a ride in his fancy car as a prize for winning the game, As it turns out Centauri is an alien, and his fancy car, well, it’s an alien spacecraft. Alex is off to do battle throughout the universe.
Aliens in the Attic (2009)
The Pearson family is on vacation, they have rented the perfect house for their stay, right on the lake in Creek Landing Michigan. What could go wrong?
As the family settles in, dark storm clouds swirl around the house, and the four glowing pods land on its roof. A crew of little aliens emerge, the tough and nasty commander Skip, the ugly muscle-bound soldier Tazer, the violent female soldier Razor, and the non-threatening, four-armed engineer Sparks.
The Pearson family is now forced to battle mind-controlling Aliens who are bent on taking over the world, can the Pearson family and their bratty children save the world from an alien takeover?
I have to admit, I've never seen the end of ET. I remember when we watched it as a family. I got so bored. There was snow on the ground despite it being October, so I went outside and made a snowman. Every so often, I think I should sit down and watch ET, but I have yet to do it.
It's been a minute since I've seen Honey I've Shrunk the Kids (the bit with the ant was a lot for me as a kid), but I gotta say, my favorite of that franchise was the sequel, Honey I Blew Up The Kid. That one was hilarious.