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Release Date: 26 February, 2001 Retail Price: $24.95 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
The Navigator Reviews
To the clerk who turned me on to this one, thank you!
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.
Incoherent and bland
Although the concept of the movie is promising -- a group of medieval peasants make a journey to a modern city -- the plot is too amateurish to sustain serious attention, and the acting is similarly weak. Some examples: (1) the 14th century peasants and modern NZ'ers speak the same dialect of English; (2) although the NZ city is apparently in the midst of an economic downturn, the industrial zones are busily at work even though it is nightime when the peasants visit; (3) no one in the city seems particularly surprised that a group of oddly-dressed people would be trying to place a cross a the top of a dangerously steep cathedral spire in the middle of the night; (4) a nuclear submarine startles the peasants by doing something no nuclear sub would ever do -- surfacing in a city harbor at night; and (5) the peasants decide to accomplish their task by spltting up into groups, which seems a poor way for them to proceed, especially in a very strange place. All of these errors, and many like them, seem like nothing more than sloppy or lazy screenwriting.
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