Star Kid (1997)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Manny Coto

Writer (WGA):

Manny Coto (written by)

Release Date:

16 January 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi | Family

Tagline:

You know what they say, if the cyborsuit fits, go kick some alien butt!

Plot:

Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit...

Plot Keywords:

Bully | Surrealism | Crush | Humanoid | Outer Space

Cast

Joseph Mazzello	...	Spencer Griffith
Richard Gilliland	...	Roland Griffith
Corinne Bohrer	...	Janet Holloway, Science Teacher
Alex Daniels	...	Cyborsuit
Joey Simmrin	...	Manfred 'Turbo' Bruntley
Brian Simpson	...	Broodwarrior
Ashlee Levitch	...	Stacey Griffith
Jack McGee	...	Hank Bruntley
Arthur Burghardt	...	Cyborsuit (voice)
Danny Masterson	...	Kevin, Stacey's Boyfriend
Lauren Eckstrom	...	Michelle Eberhardt
Christine Weatherup	...	Nadia
Yumi Adachi	...	Mika
Alissa Ann Smego	...	Burgerworld Girl
Fred Kronenberg	...	Officer #1

Also Known As:

The Warrior of Waverly Street (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for fantasy combat violence and language.

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:L (original rating) | Iceland:LH (video rating) | South Korea:All | Australia:G | Singapore:PG | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Manny Coto Productions

Trivia:

The science class's pet tarantula is named "Leo G.", a reference to Leo G. Carroll, star of Tarantula (1955). (Also, the school is called Waverly, which was Carroll's character's name in "The Man From U.N.C.L.E".)

Goofs:

Continuity: The dirt on Spencer's clothing after coming out of a garbage can changes when it switches to him entering the car.

Quotes:

Spencer Griffith: [wondering how he can eat a burger whilst trapped in the Cyborsuit] How am I supposed to eat this thing?
Cyborsuit: Insert nourishment into food processing cepticle.
Spencer Griffith: Here it goes.
Cyborsuit: [processes burger into compact size] Stand by to receive nourishment.
Spencer Griffith: I'm supposed to eat that?
Spencer Griffith: [feeling disgusted] What is this?
Cyborsuit: One synthesized nebular burger. All non-essential compounds have been filtered out.
Spencer Griffith: I'm eating a Cyborsuit turd.

Movie Connections:

References "Sesame Street" (1969)

"Mazzello's a superhero"

12-year-old Spencer Griffith (Joseph Mazzelllo)is an intelligent introveterted kid, who's life couldn't get much worse. His beloved mom died a few years earlier, his dad ignores him,his sister is a jerk to him, and he's a "dweeb" at school. Spencer gets picked on and beat on at school by his school nemesis a couple years older than him, "Turbo", and he's too shy to talk to Michelle, the cute girl in school.His only escape is reading the comic book "Midnight Warrior" Salvation is on its way! When Spencer is at home alone, because his boy crazy sister goes out with her boyfriend (Danny Masterson from That 70's Show), a cybersuit lands in the junkyard, which he jumps into and names cy,short for "cybersuit" and teaches it human language, becomes it's friend, and gets revenge on Turbo, by scaring the crap out of him! Later he learns that broodwariors have come to destroy the earth, and it's up to the runty kid and Turbo, who becomes his friend to stop them. I loved seeing Joseph Mazzello be a superhero like figure, he was my favorite young actor, and he's usually in Hard hitting dramas that are often depressing, and didn't get much attention or scene steeling moments in the action films he was in.