Flight of the Navigator

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Disney's 1986 Flight of the Navigator combines a strong ensemble cast and classic '80s soundtrack with dazzling special effects for a high-flying sci-fi adventure. While searching for his little brother in the woods, 12-year-old David Freeman (Joey Cramer) falls down a ravine and is knocked unconscious. After what seems like minutes, he returns home, only to discover that eight years have passed since he was declared missing and presumed dead. Even more mystifying is that David hasn't aged, nor can he account for the time lapse. Meanwhile, NASA officials stumble upon a futuristic spacecraft and are determined to assess what David knows about it by locking him in a top-secret lab for scanning and testing. His only chance of escape is in the spacecraft manned by Max, a wisecracking robot. Cramer gives an earnest performance, which overcomes an imperfect script, while enough one-liners and imaginative animation will keep families engaged. Watch for Sarah Jessica Parker in one of her first film appearances. Rated PG for language. (Ages 6 and older) --Lynn Gibson

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Kind of like a hippo, but with feathers.......2007-09-02

In this 1986 Disney flick, Veronica Cartwright (the whiny lady from 'Alien') played mother to a child kidnapped by a robotic space ship. Despite her best efforts, the plot sinks to an irritating low when the robot alien ship scans the child's mind and suddenly becomes Pee-wee Herman. Is any more commentary required? This is bad 1980's family movie-fluff, like Short Circuit, but more obnoxious. Watch it for sentimental value or for an ironic laugh at Disney's half-hearted critique of the xenophobia inherent in American foreign policy. Otherwise, entertain your kids with something more entertaining, like Veronica Cartwright's brilliant 1979 film 'Alien.'

First ET, and now this...Another 80s film gets censored.......2007-08-28

The version I have on DVD is, unfortunately another victim of the trend of releasing great kid's films from the past in a "cleaned-up" version. The incident is very small, but I suppose I'm more upset because of the principle of censorship. There is a moment when the ships computer asks the central character David what it means when David says he has to use the bathroom. David tells Max to land, and then in a moment of frustration says that he has to take a "leak." I almost didn't notice this (since I haven't seen the film for at least 10 years), but there is even a line further on in the film (when the ship goes under water) that references said omission. David says he hopes that they don't get wet, to which the computer replies "I do not leak. You leak, remember?" I fortunately got this entertaining movie for a very low price (and it was nice to revisit a childhood favorite), but I would not have purchased this film had I known it was censored. (P.S.- Something similar happened with the re-release of "The Last Unicorn.")

Flight of the Navigator.......2007-07-23

What a terrific movie! Definately one to watch again and again. A little language, unfortunately, but overall, very satifiying.

back to the future back in the day!.......2007-06-18

This is definetly a classic!! I showed my kids this & that became an instant movie to watch!

A wonderful classic.......2007-05-08

I love reminiscing about watching and enjoying this movie as a child. Viewing it now, I find a different and delightful humor that I hadn't conceived in my early years. Great fun for the whole family.

The Art of Buster Keaton (The General / Sherlock, Jr. / Our Hospitality / The Navigator / Steamboat Bill Jr. / College / Three Ages / Battling Butler / Go West / The Saphead / Seven Chances / 21 Short Films)

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At long last - all the goodies in one spot
Best Collection of Keaton Silent Films
"This fellow Keaton appears to be the whole show."
Genius
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The Art of Buster Keaton (The General / Sherlock, Jr. / Our Hospitality / The Navigator / Steamboat Bill Jr. / College / Three Ages / Battling Butler / Go West / The Saphead / Seven Chances / 21 Short Films)
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ASIN: B00005QW5A
Release Date: 2001-11-20

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Buster Keaton was arguably the cinema's first modernist, an old-fashioned romantic with a 20th-century mind behind a deadpan visage. His films brim with some of the most breathtaking stunts and ingenious gags ever put on film, all perfectly engineered to look effortless. And, as Kino's magnificent 11-disc boxed set The Art of Buster Keaton conclusively shows, they are among the funniest ever made. Keaton warped gags until they left the plane of reality in such shorts as The Playhouse (1921) and The Frozen North (1922), and takes a logic-defying leap into the very nature of cinema itself in his hilarious Sherlock Jr. (1924). He takes on the mechanical world with Rube Golberg ingenuity in The Navigator (1924) and perfects his match between man and massive machine in Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), which features the funniest hurricane scene ever put to film, and The General (1927), one of the greatest comedies of all time.

In addition to the previously released 11 features and 19 shorts from the peak of Keaton's career, this set boasts the exclusive Keaton Plus, a collection of rarities and tributes. The greatest find is the long-lost ending to Hard Luck (1921), now restored to complete the film's final inspired gag. Other highlights include newly discovered scenes from Daydreams (1922) and The Love Nest (1923), entertaining excerpts from Keaton's 1951 TV show Life with Buster Keaton (he's still got it!), and his rare dramatic turn in the 1954 television play The Awakening. --Sean Axmaker

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At long last - all the goodies in one spot.......2007-09-16

Those of us who bought The Art of Buster Keaton on VHS back in the mid-90s ended up having to buy it all over again when the DVD revolution hit. That's okay, though, because Buster is always worth it. The fun of the boxed set is the extra disk full of rarities and tidbits (the best being John Bengtson's offerings). All of Buster's features and most of his shorts are here, though there are missteps here and there. The music offered on Sherlock Jr. is atrocious, and the lack of commentaries or other offerings on the films themselves make this collection pale somewhat in comparison with the Harold Lloyd extravaganza that followed in 2005.

Other DVD collections have been released in the interim, but my heart has a special place for this one, because it was the first after a long, dry spell. I may add to my Buster Keaton film sets, in order to provide myself with better versions of certain films, but I'll never replace this one.

Best Collection of Keaton Silent Films.......2007-09-11

I think that this is the best collection of Keaton's Slient Films that I have seen. I was not sure at first if I should or should not buy this product. My husband is a huge fan and the few movies that I had seen of Busters on the AMC channel I had liked. However, this collection far exceeded my expectations. For this review I have decieded to list out all of the titles in the collection which is something that Amazon doesn't do.
1. Our Hospitality
2. Sherlock, Jr.
3. College
4. Hard Luck
5. The Electric House
6. The Blacksmith
7. The Navigator
8. The Boat
9. The Love Nest
10. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
11. Covict 13
12. Daydreams
13. Three Ages
14. The Goat
15. My Wife's Relations
16. Battling Butler
17. The Haunted House
18. The Frozen North
19. Seven Chances
20. Neighbors
21. The Balloonatic
22. The Saphead
23. The High Sign
24. One Week
25. The General
26. The Playhouse
27. Cops
28. Go West
29. The Scarecrow
30. The Paleface
Besides these movies there is a bonus disc which shows Buster Keaton playing a serious role. Overall I thought that this was one of the best collection of silent films that I have bought recently.

"This fellow Keaton appears to be the whole show.".......2007-07-15

Thus utters a confused patron of a vaudeville house who is confronted by Buster Keaton and his minstrels accompanied by a conductor and his orchestra, all clones of Buster Keaton in the classic short "The Playhouse". He really was the whole show during his independent years - writer, director, star. This collection consists of Keaton's surviving work from the years he was an independent film maker from the year 1920 when he struck out on his own after partnering with Roscoe Arbuckle for two years, and before he made the tragic decision to sign with MGM in 1928. It seems there are as many opinions on which of Keaton's features and shorts during his silent years are his finest and which are merely good as there are viewers of his films. To me, Buster's best work was when he was in a role in which there was an urgent matter of the heart involved - whether the object of his affection was a locomotive, a girl, or in the case of "Go West", a cow by the name of "Old Brown Eyes". Buster usually played a shy sincere fellow, often thrown into adverse circumstances he did not fully comprehend. However, he was resourceful and courageous in a pinch and always found a way to triumph in the end. When he first decided to go into the film industry he took a camera apart and put it back together just to see how it worked, and his love of the camera and what it could do showed in films like "The Playhouse" and "Sherlock Jr." where, in addition to Buster's usual stunts and displays of physical agility, he made use of special effects that were definitely way ahead of their time. There is an extra disc in this set entitled "Keaton Plus" which mainly consists of Keaton's work after his time at MGM. There are two of his better Educational Pictures shorts, "Aleez Oop" (1934) and "Jail Bait" (1937). There are also several TV appearances, including a purely dramatic role Buster took in a segment of "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents" entitled "The Awakening" from 1954. Also included are various tributes, a couple of commercials Buster starred in, and a rather extensive photo gallery.

No doubt this set is a large financial investment. If you are unfamiliar with Keaton's work and would like a "test drive", try either "Buster Keaton: The Great Stone Face of Comedy" or the three disc set "The Buster Keaton Collection" by St. Clair Vision. Both sets are only ten dollars and both include "The General" and quite a few of his silent era shorts. Then you can make an informed decision about this set.

Genius.......2007-05-18

SO glad I spent literally half a paycheck on this collection . Keaton was , quite simply , brilliant . His amazing stunts and incredible agility put so many present-day actors to shame . As for that signature "stone face"....The man could say so much more with his eyes than any spoken words could ever express . Truly unsurpassed talent .

Buying Asian versions.......2007-01-10

I know spending $100 seems expensive when you can buy an Asian copy on eBay for $30 or $40. But when you do that, nothing is going to David Shepard to compensate him for acquiring these films, transfering them to video, doing some restoration, and adding a sound track. Even if these films are in the public domain, they don't save themselves. It takes time and money to do that. Please help preserve our rapidly disintegrating silent film heritage and buy the DVDs produced by the people doing the work of preservation.

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Run-of-the-mill Buster.
Boating With Buster
How funny can one movie be?
A treat for all Buster Keaton fans
Maritime mayhem

The Navigator
Starring: Clarence Burton , H.N. Clugston , Donald Crisp , Noble Johnson , and Kathryn McGuire
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ASIN: B000021Y7M
Release Date: 1999-11-23

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Buster Keaton revisits his familiar persona of a spoiled society dandy thrown into the surreal world. Young millionaire Rollo Treadway (the sap in the family tree, according to a title card) embarks on a long voyage to nurse his broken heart when his lady love, Kathryn McGuire, turns down his proposal of marriage. Of course he winds up on the wrong dock and boards a derelict ship, which (as luck would have it) McGuire has also boarded. Foreign spies set the ship adrift on the high seas, stranding the pampered heirs, who must now fend for themselves. Keaton indulges in his love of Rube Goldberg contraptions with an elaborate jungle of levers and hatches that turns a giant galley into a veritable automat and dives into 20th-century technology when he dons a diving suit for a hilarious underwater sequence. McGuire makes a marvelous comic partner for Keaton, a gifted physical comedian and a spunky love interest, while the ship plays straight man to their pratfalls and gags, practically coming alive like a haunted house in their first terrified night aboard. The match between man and massive machine proved so successful that Keaton returned to the concept for his two greatest comedies, The General and Steamboat Bill Jr. Also featured are a pair of appropriately aquatic shorts: The Boat, in which Buster packs his family into a leaky houseboat, and The Love Nest, which pits castaway Buster against a despotic captain. --Sean Axmaker

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Brilliantly exemplifying Buster Keaton's ability to mine rich humor from the inanimate, "The Navigator" (1924, 65 min.) is a classic of the Golden Age of Comedy. Keaton stars as Rollo Treadway, an inexperienced lad of extraordinary wealth, but little common sense. He finds himself adrift on "The Navigator," a 500-foot yacht, with no one but an equally naive girl (Kathryn McGuire). Together they face the misadventures that befall them on the high seas, from cannibals to unfamiliar domesticity. As a special feature, this DVD includes two additional shorts demonstrating Keaton's penchant for maritime mayhem. In "The Boat" (1921, 22 min.), Buster and family set sail aboard the homemade "Damfino," while in "The Love Nest" (1923, 20 min.), a recently rediscovered lost film, he trades sailboat for U-boat to plumb new depths of hilarity.

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Run-of-the-mill Buster........2005-07-30

Humorous, but not hilarious like say THE GENERAL or STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. ,THE NAVIGATOR and the two short films on this disc (THE BOAT and THE LOVE NEST) are all entertaining enough but nothing that I would want to see again. Even boring at times.

THE NAVIGATOR (1924, 60 minutes) 3 1/2 stars
THE BOAT (1921, 22minutes) 3 stars
THE LOVE NEST (1923, 20 minutes) 3 1/2 stars

Boating With Buster.......2004-02-02

The Navigator -- a luxury liner set adrift with no crew apart from Buster Keaton and his would-be fiancé. After eventually finding each other aboard the giant craft, they must work together to survive. Totally cut off from civilization their needs are the most basic: they must use all their wits to survive hunger, thirst, and ghosts. Falling under the "not so basic necessities" category, they must also repel an invasion from a group of unfortunately characterized islanders.

This film clocks in at just about an hour. And like many the Keaton films of this length, this is very much a collection of related set pieces, only loosely connected by plot. Fortunately, the sequences here are very funny. The breakfast scene is quite amusing, with the two trying to prepare food in a kitchen that is well stocked in some things, but lacking in other, necessary items (i.e. lots of cans, no can-opener in sight). Naturally, as with any Buster Keaton movie, confusions abound; the hapless pair mistakes fireworks for candles, and a photograph for a poltergeist.

As with most of Keaton's better films, several elements all come together to create something worthy. The slapstick comedy is present, of course. But the action sequences are epic and give the store a real feeling of adventure.

In addition to the main feature, included on this disc are two of Buster's short films that also deal with nautical adventures. First up is THE BOAT, in which Buster Keaton, devoted father and husband has a dream of building and captaining a sailing ship of his own. He ultimately realizes his goal, but the opening scene shows us the first of what will become many miscalculations; he's constructed a boat in a basement, and doesn't realize that he has no way of fitting it through the door. But sacrificing everything that he has, up to (and almost including) members of his family, he eventually finds himself, his loved ones, and, indeed, his homemade boat happily floating on the ocean surface. The little scenes and short gags that make up this film are really well done. The props they built are impressive; from the outside of the boat, to its interior which rotates on its horizontal axis a full 360 degrees, making the ceiling quickly become the floor (Keaton dealing with an barrel-rolling boat is simply hilarious).

THE LOVE NEST is another of those films where a standard Silent Movie Heavy throws little guys around like rag dolls. In this case, it's Joe Roberts as the gruff captain of a whaling ship who throws his minions overboard when they displease him in the slightest (he's not totally without heart; he throws wreaths to mark his underling's watery graves).

Even though all three of the films on this disc involve seafaring, there is no real repetition. No jokes are recycled. A lot of Buster's gags involved water in some way; he was constantly falling into it, or having it dumped on him, or dropping it on his adversaries. It just goes to show you how creative Keaton was when he can take what are essentially cheap laughs and turn them into something so ticklish. Give him one simple premise (himself on a boat), and he can spin off a hundred different jokes. This disc definitely shows Buster Keaton at his comic best.

(Some of these prints are showing their age, but since that age is about eighty, that is only to be expected. I hope I'm as well preserved when I'm that old.)

How funny can one movie be?.......2003-01-09

No other movie I've ever seen - with the possible exceptoin of the first Richard Pryor concert film, which isn't quite the same thing - has ever made me laugh as much, or as hard, as this. That the gags are peerlessly set up and flawlessly executed is to be expected with Keaton, and he made better films than this ("The General" comes to mind, of course) but for sheer, painful belly-laughs, none of Buster's work, for me, comes close. A few moments of many: Buster's idiot girlfriend making coffee; their eerily hilarious meeting on the drifting boat, so perfectly timed and played it should a) serve as a model for all physical comedians and b) never be done again; and Keaton's underwater duel with a swordfish. Just don't watch it while you're eating, and keep a pillow by the couch for falling on.

A treat for all Buster Keaton fans.......2001-08-02

This collection contains six enjoyable shorts of Buster Keaton's work. Great fun for silent-film fans!

Maritime mayhem.......2001-01-03

This DVD contains one feature and two short films, all with a oceangoing theme. "The Navigator" from 1924 was the oldest film on AFI's "100 Years, 100 Laughs" list of the 100 funniest movies. Keaton finds himself adrift on a large ocean liner with the woman he had hoped to marry as his only companion. There are several funny scenes including Keaton's reaction to drinking coffee made with seawater, mistaking fireworks for candles, Keaton's underwater duel with a swordfish, and a climax involving several dozen boxes of fireworks and a tribe of island cannibals.

"The Boat" and "The Love Nest" are the two short films, with "The Boat" being the better of the two. Keaton builds a boat called "Damfino" in his house then destroys the house trying to get the completed boat outside. When he and the family get into trouble during a storm, the boat's name is used in a very funny scene with a coast guard telegraph operator.

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As big business takes hold of the rail industry, the gang at the local depot is forced to adapt to new rules and wrestle with middle management's double-talk. As the new Managing Director wipes the slate clean, reliable workers are sent to pasture, and bonds of friendship are pulled apart as they confront difficult life choices…some of them life or death.

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Cautionary Tale of our times.......2005-10-25

The classic privatization process of a governmental agency, taken apart inexorably by the new owners, from the workers' point of view. First come the voluntary retirement slips. Later on, the decreased working conditions, and finally, the dismantlement of the entire working environment. Those who want to continue working must do it through temporary agencies without collective agreements and using their own equipment. Naturally, security levels decline and people get hurt. All what is wrong with neo-classical economics is here: the money that was expended in more wages and better quality work is now channeled towards the owners of the agencies and the contractors, who care nothing about the workers, and if they're the workers themselves they must do un-ethical things to survive at the same level than before. A gifted group of actors bring to life the known pattern of despair that settles after a Thatcherite technocrat has done his work in the name of efficiency, and the gains of the think thank who employs him after hours.

A privatized world is not necessarily better.......2004-08-06

Ken Loach is attracted by extreme situations. In this film he shows the damage privatisation caused in the railway industry. Team spirit was destroyed among railwaymen with all it brought along : tension, selfishness, isolation, carelessness, even maybe hatred and cruelty. The men lost their daily security and it also meant tension in the families, with their wives, girlfriends, and ex-spouses and children. Family life suffered tremendously, also meaning some other blights like alcoholism, though Loach does not insist on that point. He describes in details the way agencies become the real go-betweens for these now flexible workers and the real employers who cut on cost even if it means less safety and more danger. Of course Ken Loach ends up with an accident : a man is wounded by a train at night because there was no one to make sure the tracks were empty while the men were transporting concrete in buckets, having regressed in their working conditions at least one century. Work there is, for sure, but unions are banned, regular hours are dead, private life disappears, working conditions are primitive and accidents become a real plague, not to mention the tremendous waste it means when two private firms are competing on one site, each one sending less men than before but the two together sending mor men. A complete break with the present in the name of a future that smells like the past very much. And today the state is forced to go back into the picture to guarantee some security and regularity, for the passengers this time.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

A Heartfelt and Sincere Cinematic Experience..........2004-08-05

Ken Loach is known for making films that reflect social injustices, which is apparent in films such as Bread and Roses (2000) and My Name is Joe (1998). In Navigators Loach depicts the social issues in a documentary style that brings the importance of the issues with swiftness to the audience as it feels very real. In addition, there are no celebrities performing the parts of the characters, which develops an authentic atmosphere around the characters of the railroad workers.

One morning when a group of railway workers of various age and experience arrive to work they find that their government lead company British Railway has been sold off to the private sector. Unprepared these men find out the hard way that the days of "a job for life" are gone in the United Kingdom. The railroad workers and their superiors are neatly lead into the private sector by diligent businessmen where they are forced to face the cutthroat world of capitalism where their union rights are obsolete.

In the end, Loach brings a sincere cinematic experience to the audience as he tells his story about British Rail as they abandoned their employees in 1995. This experience is heartfelt as the realism conveys personal struggle's that the railroad workers faced as they lost their jobs. Loach balances this delicately as he does not overexpose the characters problems and does not over emphasizes the injustices done to the railroad workers. Instead Loach merely lets the story take place and the audience is allowed to make its own judgment in regards to the social injustice.

The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (The Navigator) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]

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The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (The Navigator) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]
Director: Vincent Ward
Manufacturer: AV Channel
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), English (Subtitles), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYNOPSIS: This Australian fantasy stars Hamish McFarlane as a young 14th Century boy with acute psychic powers. During the period of the Black Death, Hamish believes that he can rescue his fellow villagers by leading them into an abandoned mine. The fugitives tunnel their way through the darkness and emerge on the other side--into a bustling New Zealand metropolis in the year 1988. The phenomenon is seen from the point of view of the "aliens," to whom every modern convenience and invention is a miracle comparable to the Resurrection. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey successfully creates and sustains its own logic, framing the story in the linear form of an ancient legend, and never treating the bedazzled time-travellers in a condescending manner. SPECIAL FEATURES: Trailer(s), Photo Gallery, Interactive Menu,

The Navigator: A Time-Travel Adventure [Import]

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Truly a great medieval fantasy [and a very good import]
Word is this is a pirated DVD release
A lost classic!

The Navigator: A Time-Travel Adventure [Import]
Director: Vincent Ward
Manufacturer: Spectra Nova
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Cover in Portuguese.
Audio in English.

ASIN: 8576601125

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Vincent Ward's mystical tale of a tiny 14th-century English hamlet during the devastation of the Black Plague mixes faith and fantasy in a compelling adventure. Ward creates a stark look with his high contrast black-and-white photography: dark huts against a snow-covered landscape and a gray sky, candles and campfires burning tiny pools of light in the midnight-black caves. The visions of young Griffin (Hamish McFarlane) break this austere style with color dreams, at first merely flashes of images, then a vivid narrative of a pilgrimage through the center of the earth. Griffin's older brother Connor (Bruce Lyons), who has just returned from the dying, diseased cities of England, leads this great journey to an alien world of metal beasts and towering ramparts (revealed as a modern New Zealand city) to make their offering to God. Ward keeps the camera tied to their experience, creating a nightmarish vision of familiar objects and locations: a busy highway, a junkyard, a remarkable run-in with a surfacing submarine. Throughout, Griffin's haunting flashes of the future taunt him with clues to a death in the party, but they don't reveal who. The Navigator defies genre, mixing fantasy and science fiction, religion and mysticism, historical realism and modern adventure, to create a compelling, beautiful, visually stunning leap of faith.

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Truly a great medieval fantasy [and a very good import].......2007-07-17

I saw this movie for the first time about ten years ago, and was absolutely impressed on every level. The acting done is fantastic, and far beyond what you would expect from such a small budget. The directing leaves you with memorable scenes and the point is clearly made, big money does not equal big talent. Do not let this movie pass you by! This version is NTSC and will play on any US dvd player. It is the official Brazilian release, very good quality and has a fair price. Don't get fooled by the other guy who thinks that anything that is made in a foreign country is bad by definition.

Word is this is a pirated DVD release.......2007-05-19

The only official version of "The Navigator: Medieval Odyssey" ever made for Region 1 (NTSC) was the Hen's Tooth DVD, retitled "The Navigator: A Time Travel Adventure", and that's out-of-print. An Australian company, AV Channel, released the only official PAL version.

(The 1-star rating is for this dubious DVD release; the movie itself is a 4-star.)

A lost classic!.......2007-05-07

The USA release of this DVD costs upwards of $100.00... So this version is a suitable alternative... although the image quality is not the best... it's well worth the price.

This is the story of a boy in small village surrounded by the black plague... he has a vision that the villagers should tunnel through the earth to escape the plague... which they do... and emerge on the other side of the globe... in 20th century New Zealand...

beautifully shot...

Ultimate Guitar Techniques: Fretboard Navigator

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Ultimate Guitar Techniques: Fretboard Navigator
Starring: Jamie Humphries
Director: Jamie Humphries
Manufacturer: Lick LIbrary
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ASIN: B000J10HCG
Release Date: 2007-01-08

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What exactly were the other reviewers smoking?
More admirable than engaging
To the clerk who turned me on to this one, thank you!
NOT thrilled
An exploration of our unconscious saviors

The Navigator
Starring: Bruce Lyons , Chris Haywood , Hamish McFarlane , Marshall Napier , and Noel Appleby
Director: Vincent Ward
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Whale Rider

ASIN: B000055ZAY
Release Date: 2001-02-27

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What exactly were the other reviewers smoking?.......2006-12-12

I can appreciate a film that is more art than entertainment. Heck, I have watched "Citizen Kane" multiple times, which alone ought to qualify me for a medal. But this movie was painful to watch. I kept waiting, hoping, praying for it to get better with the thought: "No movie can really be this bad..." constantly running through my mind. Sadly, I was mistaken. This film was officially placed on my "Top Ten Worst Films" list.

I might someday purchase a used version to give as an excellent gag gift however...

More admirable than engaging.......2006-06-19

Vincent Ward is one of those directors who make films that are easier to admire than to enjoy. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey is an excellent example - striking visuals, harsh landscapes, painful accents that make key plot points incomprehensible and a big idea that doesn't work quite as well as you'd like it to. Kicking off in a harsh black and white Cumbria in the early 14th century, an isolated village is persuaded by a boy's visions that the only way to keep the plague out of their village is to tunnel to the other side of the world and erect a cross on the great church tower before dawn - only to find themselves in God's city (or New Zealand circa 1988 to us), a world of colour and lights crippled by its own plagues, redundancy, nuclear proliferation and AIDS. Blinded by television and information overload, the boy loses his ability to see beyond the knowledge that one of them will die in the attempt... There are a lot of pluses, not least the great faces in the cast, many of which look like they've literally stepped out of a Renaissance painting, but it never really engages as much as you'd like, leaving you an almost disinterested observer.

If you have a multi-region player, you're much better getting the Australian DVD than this shoddy NTSC release - the Australian DVD boasts a superb anamorphic widescreen transfer, trailer and trailers for Ward's Vigil and What Dreams May Come.

To the clerk who turned me on to this one, thank you!.......2005-07-10

The premise was so intriguing, of course I rented it. And it became an instant favorite. All these years later it's in my top 5. I bought the dvd soon's I could. (Considering what a dvd copy seems to be fetching these days I wish I'd bought 5 or 6. Oh well.) Whatever in the plot seems like it just couldn't be, never mind, just go with it. It's a time-travel adventure not by machine but rather in the mind of a child, and all the how-come will resolve quite naturally. It's a beautiful uplifting (and heartbreaking) story. It's a whole-family film like no other.

NOT thrilled .......2005-02-17

I purchased this disc in May 2004.
I has a VHS copy -taken from pay TV. While the DVD was a bit cleare/less grainy ,the video was 1.33:1 ,not 1.85:1 as advertised;also the sound was MONO ,not Dolby Surround as advertised. A good film but a technically inferior disc.
Edd.
iegolden@shaw.ca

An exploration of our unconscious saviors.......2004-12-15

"The Navigator" is a film that truly explores the depths of the human mind and the heros that keep our existance in tact without us recognizing them. This movie is an excellent collection of information on the Hero's Journey, Jungian archetypes, and the three-part Freudian psyche.

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Navigators: Baudin vs Flinders
Director: Klaus Toft
Manufacturer: Bfs Entertainment
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Kind of like a hippo, but with feathers
First ET, and now this...Another 80s film gets censored
Flight of the Navigator
back to the future back in the day!
A wonderful classic

Flight of the Navigator [Region 2]
Starring: Joey Cramer , Paul Reubens , Veronica Cartwright , Cliff De Young , and Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Kind of like a hippo, but with feathers.......2007-09-02

First ET, and now this...Another 80s film gets censored.......2007-08-28

Flight of the Navigator.......2007-07-23

What a terrific movie! Definately one to watch again and again. A little language, unfortunately, but overall, very satifiying.

back to the future back in the day!.......2007-06-18

This is definetly a classic!! I showed my kids this & that became an instant movie to watch!

A wonderful classic.......2007-05-08

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