what the hell was this film called?

[Anonymous User]

Hi,
This film just appeared in my head so I probably dreamt it, but does anyone remember a film about a bunch of kids who make this orangey/pink ball thing (well, the brainy bespectacled kid does, obviously) that can fly really fast, and they use it to carry a spaceship they make out of rubbish bins and other crapola into space where they find another spaceship shaped like a guitar?

There are some scenes I vaguely remember if that helps, like when they are on a hill and they are trying the floating ball thing out, and one of them gets inside and shoots around, up in the air and through the ground etc., and another where they are talking to the aliens who are watching earth TV.  The aliens turn out to be male and female kids like them, and their parents come to get them at the end so the kids fly back to earth and they crash in some lake or something and the cool kid gets the girl.

Someone has to remember the name of this film, it was almost as integral a part of my youth as flight of the navigator and doc savage: man of bronze. Thanks for any help - Dave

[Fearless Freep]

Sounds like Explorers

I saw this one when it came out, and vaguely remember it as you do

[iaj]

great movie. definitely part of a worthwhile childhood..

[JohnL]

>I saw this one when it came out, and vaguely remember it as you do

I've seen it many times (just recently in fact) and remember it well. Robert Picardo, the holographic doctor from Voyager played the male alien, Wak and his father,

"Look, I know I must look weird to you but how do you think you look to me? Listen, I watched four episodes of "Lassie" before I figured out why the little hairy kid never spoke. I mean, he rolled over, sure, he did that fine, but I don't think he deserved a series for that. "

--Wak