Space camp
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Space camp |
| Original title | SpaceCamp |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harry Winer |
| script |
Clifford Green Casey T. Mitchell |
| production |
Patrick Bailey Walter Coblenz Leonard Goldberg David Salven |
| music | John Williams |
| camera | William A. Fraker |
| cut |
Tim Board John W. Wheeler |
| occupation | |
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| synchronization | |
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Space Camp (alternative title: Vacation in Space ) is a 1986 science fiction film by Harry Winer , which was released in US theaters on June 6, 1986 - less than five months after the Challenger disaster . The film opened in the Federal Republic of Germany on January 22, 1987.
action
The Space Camp is a NASA training camp in which young people are allowed to complete astronaut training during the summer vacation. The astronaut Andie Bergstrom unwillingly spends the summer as a group leader in the Space Camp instead of in space and leads a group of five consisting of the young people Kathrin, Tish, Rudy, Max and Kevin.
In this group, you simulate training for a trip into space. When the group is on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis during an exercise , a catastrophe occurs: the spaceship is shot into space by a disruption caused by the Jinx robot . Jinx, who is friends with Max, wanted to fulfill Max's dream of being in space one day.
For Max and the rest of the crew, a race against time begins because the spaceship was not ready to take off and there is not enough oxygen on board. To make matters worse, radio contact with the control center is broken and the involuntary astronauts cannot receive any help or instructions. In the event of a necessary external mission , during which Max and Andie obtain oxygen from an empty space station that is under construction, the astronaut is also injured, so that the young people are temporarily left on their own. Nevertheless, the young crew managed, albeit just barely, to land the shuttle safely in White Sands .
Locations
- Huntsville , Alabama , USA
- Kennedy Space Center , Titusville , Florida , USA
The take-off footage was taken from the STS-51-C mission , the footage of the landing from STS-8 .
reception
Space Camp received mixed to negative reviews, with only 40 percent of the critics giving Rotten Tomatoes positive reviews . Critic Roger Ebert gave it a one and a half star rating, saying, "Our ideas about a space shuttle will never be the same and our memories are so painful that Space Camp will be condemned before it even starts." Variety is of the opinion that Space Camp does not succeed in combining summer camp events with space idealism in order to inspire with a captivating story, while James Sanford v. Kalamazo Gazete replies: "Not entirely out of this world." The website At-A-Glance gave the film an even worse rating: "It's hard to accept the conditions of this film. A few kids are allowed to tour a space shuttle while NASA tests their engines. An accident happens and together with their guide they are shot into space. Once in space, can they be brought back with instructions? Add an annoying, apparently feeling robot to the mixture. Add the norm of two-dimensional character development arcs , in which each individual character his or her Overcome their traits or weaknesses at the end of the story. Add a few drops of excitement and boredom. Mix everything well and you have a first class mess. "
criticism
The lexicon of international films criticized: "The film neither problematizes the uncritical devotion of young people to high-tech and the conquest of space, nor does it succeed in dramaturgically combining the lengthy description of the life of young people in the space camp with the space adventure."
Awards
- Young Artist Award (1987): Nomination for the best family film
Web links
- Space Camp in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Space Camp in the online film database
- SpaceCamp (Space Camp). In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 1, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roger Ebert: Space Camp. In: Movie reviews, essays and the Movie Answer Man from film critic Roger Ebert. June 6, 1986, accessed February 1, 2012 .
- ↑ Variety Staff: Space Camp. (No longer available online.) In: Variety Reviews. December 31, 1985, archived from the original on August 5, 2011 ; accessed on February 1, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Space Camp. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
