Explorers


Film | Date: 1990 | Sortie du film: 1985 | Type: CD
 

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# Track Artiste/Compositeur Duration
1.The Construction2:25
2.Sticks and Stones2:03
3.No Air2:24
4.The Bubble1:43
5.First Flight2:45
6.Free Ride3:33
7.Fast Getaway4:47
8.She Likes Me2:28
9.Have a Nice Trip7:54
10.All Around The WorldRobert Palmer2:18
11.Less Than PerfectRed 74:06
12.This Boy Needs to RockNight Ranger3:57
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Explorers - 08/10 - Critique de Tom Daish, ajouté le (Anglais)
Along with Matinee, Explorers remains one of Joe Dante's least well known films. As is so often the case, it got good reviews but hardly anyone saw it. The rather Spielbergian tale of three boys whose electric dreams lead them to building a spacecraft (of sorts) and then being summoned to meet the aliens who contacted them isn't nearly as mystical as it sounds (Close Encounters or ET it isn't - the ending here is actually rather disappointing), but is enjoyable escapist entertainment in Dante's typically deft hands. After their first partnership on Gremlins, Dante cemented his working relationship with Jerry Goldsmith, which continued right up to their last collaboration and Goldsmith's last score, Loony Tunes: Back in Action. Unlike the mock horror of Gremlins, Explorers is adventure and wish fulfillment along the lines of Flight of the Navigator, so Goldsmith's music has a winning lightness and appealing melodic content.
The Explorers album provides ample evidence that soundtrack albums need not slavishly follow the order of the film to produce the best listening experience. The Construction actually occurs about a third of the way through the film, but is much more satisfying as an opening cue on disc, drawing the listener straight into the score's sound world and main theme. Perhaps most impressively, the track sounds like a concert arrangement but is as it appears in the film. From the bouncing bass line to the memorably anthemic main theme (sounding like a precursor to Hoosiers). The subtle synths in that cue are expanded upon elsewhere and, while they perhaps sound a little dated today, work well especially in the lighthearted Sticks and Stones where they are used as a subtle enhancement to the orchestra. There's certainly nothing as annoying as the Supergirl whoosh and for the more dramatic moments, No Air for example, the sounds Goldsmith uses and the way they are embedded within the orchestration is very effective.

The album has a nice balance between adventurous material quieter moments as the three protagonists work together such as The Bubble which echoes the suburbia music of Gremlins. Perhaps the only disappointing sidestep is the rather silly syncopated poppy synth tune that first appears in She Likes Me but is reprised and expanded for Have a Nice Trip. The synths sound more dated than ever and is too obviously comic to be effective; after such a great build up, it's disappointing the film didn't deliver a finale for which Goldsmith could have delivered a finale knock out cue. Still, it's a brief passage that doesn't spoil the album and there's more than enough superb stuff to enjoy elsewhere. The album rounds out with three 80's rock numbers which aren't half bad and despite only featuring just over half an hour of Goldsmith's music, there is little substantial missing. Not perhaps a major entry in the Goldsmith cannon but a prototypical early 80's work mixing big, orchestral gestures with synths and some terrific tunes. Wonderful.

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