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In 1984, Lorimar Film Entertainment and Universal Pictures joined forces to effect a very arresting and bewitching sci-fi film entitled “The Last Starfighter”. Directed by Chop Castle, the narrative begins in the unimaginative and dusty “Starlite Starbrite” trailer park where the teenager Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) lives with his mother Jane Rogan (Barbara Bosson) and his inquisitive shrimp brother Louis Rogan (Chris Hebert) . Alex has very exiguous free time for himself as he has become the de facto trailer park maintenance man, repairing various problems in neighbors’ trailers. He would like to go to college and leave the trailer park unhurried, but his mother’s meager wages gain that impossible. His girlfriend Maggie Gordon (Catherine Mary Stewart) also lives in the trailer park. When not with Maggie, Alex’s well-liked enjoys playing a videogame called Starfighter located next to the trailer park’s office. Alex becomes very skilled at beating the videogame to the delight of trailer park residents. One night, a mysterious, fast-talking man named Centauri (Robert Preston, 1918-1987) pulls up in a love car. After asking about who beat the videogame, he invites Alex to join him in his car for a meeting. To Alex’s anxiety, Centauri drives them away from the trailer park and then into outer situation, where he takes Alex to the planet Rylos so that he can become a true starfighter to fight the bad Xur (Norman Snow) and the Kodan armada.
With inspiration from the first three “Star Wars” films (which were released in 1977, 1980 & 1983), the highly successful 1982 videogame-based film “Tron” and the overall popularity of videogames in the 1980’s, “The Last Starfighter” is a fun film to seek and was one of the earliest films to expend computer-generated graphics to depict outer dwelling scenes. As always, Robert Preston did a beautiful job of acting in what unfortunately was his last big-screen appearance. Lance Guest’s portrayal of Alex was probably not as noble as Designate Hamill’s portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the 1977 “Star Wars”, but it was marvelous enough to retain the film’s momentum going. Catherine Mary Stewart did do a capable job with her portrayal of Maggie. Other memorable characters in the film include Alex’s lizardy copilot Grig (Dan O’Herlihy), trailer park manager Otis (Vernon Washington, 1927-1988), trailer park resident Elvira (Peggy Pope), Maggie’s grandmother (Meg Wyllie, 1917-2002, who played the Talosian Keeper in the novel 1965 “Star Plod” TV series pilot “The Cage” that was later refashioned as the two-part episode “The Minagerie”), Lord Kril (Dan Mason) and Enduran (Kay E. Kuter, 1925-2003) . Memorable scenes include Alex at the trailer park, Alex beating the videogame, Centauri’s arrival and trek into area, Alex’s arrival on Rylos, meeting the other starfighter pilots, the surprise attack, Alex talking with his beta unit, the Kodan study, Alex’s time with Grig, the battle scenes and the final scenes. Overall, I rate “The Last Starfighter” with 4 out of 5 stars.
Quite a helpful film, especially for kids, although older viewers will secure it intelligent. Yes it does jump on the Stars Wars bandwagon and there is a bit of dialogue in the eariler spot scenes which is a blatant rip-off from Star Wars… but its a profitable enough film in its enjoy good, pioneering some top-notch Cray Shipshape computer graphics, which were very impressive in its day, and level-headed looks fine now. This film is really done justice on DVD. The relate quality is grand overall, but is a bit grainy throughout and the colours are a tiny pale. Its widescreen (2.35:1) and anamorphic, the best this film has ever looked for home consume. The sound though is the actual surprise, its Dolby Digital 5.1 and impressive. For a film of its age and considering it was originally in Dolby Stereo, the sound engineers have done an ample job for this DVD presentation, the music is marvelous, grand clarity and quality. The dialogue sounds beautiful and is obvious. The sound effects are valid and quite well placed in this fresh sound mix. The rear speakers are stale where important and the sound surrounds you at times quite well. Overall, marvelous enough narrate quality, helpful sound and well worth owning on DVD. The extras on DVD include a “making of documentary” with some intriguing comments from ILM who did Star Wars.
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