Pretty watchable mini-blockbuster with actually pretty likable kids and a by-the-numbers plot.
It's more about the personal journey than the mechanage and aliens but what we get is pretty stunning (except one shot of an alien that looks fake as s*** but whatever).
The dialogue flows spontaneously and I want to fall for the tone of youthful, transformative adventure where several different kinds of kids do a Breakfast Club on each other.
One thing that does sort of irritate me is that they have one girl in the quartet and she is so "the girl" if you get me. She acts as surrogate parent to when the boys are *being boys* if you still get me. Just once I'd like a boy to be able to be this with a girl. Sometimes girls are fun and boys are composed...I mean it. Rant over.
If there is a main flaw then it is that they cram way too much character development into one movie. Everyone has their "this is who I was" speech and everyone has their "this is my weakness" moment and everyone has that "wow I have to overcome by specific weakness right now" scene. It all just seems a bit contrived. If it had been a six part serial they would have had to radically complicate the plot but then the personal element would have a bit more time to breath.
But it's a fun movie even if they totally fudged the ending.
It's more about the personal journey than the mechanage and aliens but what we get is pretty stunning (except one shot of an alien that looks fake as s*** but whatever).
The dialogue flows spontaneously and I want to fall for the tone of youthful, transformative adventure where several different kinds of kids do a Breakfast Club on each other.
One thing that does sort of irritate me is that they have one girl in the quartet and she is so "the girl" if you get me. She acts as surrogate parent to when the boys are *being boys* if you still get me. Just once I'd like a boy to be able to be this with a girl. Sometimes girls are fun and boys are composed...I mean it. Rant over.
If there is a main flaw then it is that they cram way too much character development into one movie. Everyone has their "this is who I was" speech and everyone has their "this is my weakness" moment and everyone has that "wow I have to overcome by specific weakness right now" scene. It all just seems a bit contrived. If it had been a six part serial they would have had to radically complicate the plot but then the personal element would have a bit more time to breath.
But it's a fun movie even if they totally fudged the ending.