Flight of the Navigator Review

Another sci-fi fantasy where the hero of the piece is a ‘normal’ boy on the brink of the journey into adulthood, at least Flight of the Navigator inverts the usual pre-teen’s dilemma. Here our boy doesn’t age a day, and sees some of the untold mysteries of the universe, whilst his parents have been going about their day-to-day cornball lives.

Thanks to canny casting (it’s hard to look at Veronica Cartwright without remembering the horrors of Alien, whilst Joey Cramer is the epitome of ‘fresh-faced’), a decent sprinkling of genre in-jokes and just enough visual wizardry, the Navigator is pleasant and well-made enough to keep the family happy, but it certainly won’t challenge them.