Star Kid

• USA • 1997 • 101m •

• Directed by: Manny Coto. • Starring: Joseph Mazzello, Richard Gilliland, Corinne Bohrer, Alex Daniels, Arthur Burghardt, Ashlee Levitch, Joey Simmrin, Danny Masterson, Lauren Eckstrom, Christine Weatherup, Yumi Adachi, Brian Simpson, Alissa Ann Smego. • Music by: Nicholas Pike.

Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when a meteor falls into a local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - an exoskeleton with AI from another galaxy. Spencer puts on the Cybersuit and becomes a different kind of person.

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I remember seeing the preview to "Star Kid" when it came out in theaters and thinking, "Man, does that look dumb." Last night it came on one of the movie channels--at 10pm, strangely--so I figured I'd let it play in the background while I did some work. I ended up watching the whole thing, and guess what--I really enjoyed it. Sure, there are some inevitably silly scenes, but then, at 37, I'm way out of the target demographic.

I don't want to find fault with the movie because "it is what it is." The actors are all decent, the effects are better than I had expected, and best of all, it has heart. I'm building a library of movies for our kids (when we finally have some), and said movies will need to be wholesome family entertainment that I won't mind watching, too.

Review by Curtis G. from the Internet Movie Database.