Y'know, I guess I shouldn't be amazed that so many people have such positive memories of this movie, but I can't believe so many people share my impressions. I saw it only once, when I was 8 years old, on the Disney Sunday Night Movie, and had to wait a week to watch the second half. I can't say I remember much of the plot (a couple things stand out, spoilers I won't mention); but the look and the realism of the movie -- just the size of that ship they were on! -- got my mind going in a thousand different directions. I started drawing plans for spaceships; I somehow got the phone number for JPL, and called to ask them how you could rent a runway (the guy on the phone asked how big the spaceship was, and I told him really, really big =) I searched for copies of the movie until I was 12 or so and then I gave up, at that point uncertain whether I even had remembered the name correctly. And then...IMDb! I gotta get a copy of it, even if it's in PAL, even if it's a 4th generation dub!
Review of Earth Star Voyager: Part 1
