Sorry for the small delay the faulty wiring situation at my house requires some money to fix, so it may take awhile until then. So until that's solve my weekly reviews are re-schedule for Mondays so on to Solarbabies.
The 1980s was a mecca of all sorts of genre and sub-genre films; post-apocalyptic is one of those sub-genres that have been use in films quite regionally in the 80s. This led up to popular films such as Cyborg, Escape from New York, and Yor the Hunter from the Future. But in 1986 Solarbabies is one of those films that I consider it to be the Mad Max for teenagers and I mean that in a good way. The film stars an ensemble cast of actors Jason Patric (The Lost Boys), Jami Gertz (The Lost Boys), Lukas Haas, James LeGros, Claude Brooks, and Peter DeLuise.
The opening starts off with a narrator stating a prophecy that as entity known as Bodahi will descend from the stars to restore Earth. So it's the post-apocalyptic future where most of the Earth's water has disappeared resulting the remaining water supply to be controlled by a military organization the Eco Protectorate. The Eco Protectorate are the obvious antagonist of this film among that they run orphanages which are designed to indoctrinate new recruits into their service. In one of these orphanages we meet our heroes the Solarbabies Jason (played by Jason Patric), Terra (played by Jami Gertz), Daniel (played by Lukas Haas), Metron (played by James LeGros), Rabbit (played by Claude Brooks), and Tug (played by Peter DeLuise). They and the other orphans participate in a pass time sport called Skateball (a hybrid of lacrosse and roller-hockey). One of the Solarbabies Daniel who is deaf came across an orb with special powers (Bodahi). Upon touching the orb Daniel is cure from his deafness. Later on Daniel reveals Bodahi to the group which in turn developed a special bond and decided to keep Bodahi a secret from the Eco Protectorate. That is until Bodahi is discovered by an orphan named Darstar (played by Adrian Pasdar from Heroes) who steals Bodahi and escapes the orphanage. This transaction leads Daniel to escape alone to get Bodahi back which this leads the other Solarbabies to escape to find Daniel and Bodahi. The film carries on with the Solarbabies traveling through the dessert to a small town (Tire Town). There they meet up with Daniel, Darstar, and Bodahi after which the E-Police showed up and captured Darstar and Bodahi as the Solarbabies escapes. In the dessert they've been rescued from two bounty hunters by the Eco Warriors an organization that uses to fight against the Eco Protectorate now went into hiding. The Eco Warriors are led by a man named Greentree who is also Terra's father. Earlier in the film Jason gets a vision from Bodahi of the Protectorate's water storage facility which is the final scene of the film and where the Protectorate is bent to destroy Bodahi. So the Solarbabies head out to the water storage facility and has successfully infiltrated the facility and now the battle between the Solarbabies and the E-Police begins.
I'm gonna take a step back and talk about this battle scene. I'm not saying its bad just that something about it really tickled me. They could have brought along the Eco Warriors with them and could have easily won the battle but instead they went to the facility by themselves with no problem of fighting the Protectorate. Seriously nobody from the group gets hurt, or get shot, hell there's not even an abrupt death scene from one of the main characters. This is sort of reminds me of certain movies such as Red Dawn, Battlefield Earth, and Beastmaster. Movies that always feature a small group of heroes going up against a larger army of bad guys and the heroes actually win the battle with little to no effort. So yeah a large army of good guys will immediately get owned but a small group of good guys have a much better chance of winning. Again it just tickles me and honestly I don't think it's because that the good guys suck it's a bit more on the lines of the bad guys being ether really overconfident or incredibly lucky. Seriously in this film how much do the bad guys suck when they lose to these kids? So the film ends with the Solarbabies defeated the E-Police and destroyed the water storage facility releasing all of the water supply.
My final verdict: I love this film so much it may not be as awesome as Mad Max or Cyborg but its pretty close. And to add that after the apocalyptic future rolls by it's safe to say that break dancing will still be around. You'll see what I'm talking about. OK I will be reviewing next week it's just I can't recall what film due to that my reviewing schedules are on my computer. And that I don't wish to damage it with all of the faulty wiring but don't worry as soon as I know what I'm reviewing you'll be the the first to know. So until then stay tuned.
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