The Blue Yonder (1985)

Thanks for the memories!

Pretty Good

Absolutely the worst movie.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's rare to see me liking movies made purely for television, but this one, while by no means great, is okay.Time travel has always been a fascinating subject. Perhaps this movie isn't the most original because it has many similarities with 'Back To The Future'. The similarities have to be more than coincidence and they even came out in the same year.I'd like to travel in time, visit other generations, times I didn't live in. It would be fun to experience some of that, although, like everything in life, there would be risks. But sometimes it's necessary to take chances, otherwise we do nothing in life.Other than the interesting idea of time travel, this movie also delivers good cinematography, good performances by Peter Coyote and the charming Huckleberry Fox, a decent combination of the year 1985 (present day) and the year 1927 (almost 60 years before), good environment and feeling of both times (especially 1985), decent amounts of adventure, action and cleverness.

This movie is just boring. The story is a rip off of every sci-fi movie about time travel, with absolutely no innovation and an uninspired cast. The movie just goes on and on about this little boy that never met his grandfather (Peter Coyote) who was a great aviator an also, you can tell cause the movie just spit this information at you, a bit of an inventor. So, obviously, the guy had future plans for a time machine - plans that come out true when his friend attempts to build it and get to the past so he can save the boy's grandpa from a plane accident while Peter Coyote tries to fly from USA to France. The historical argument is just ignorable so I won't even mention it. It was hard to watch it till the end.

When Jonathan's grandfather tells him about his great grandfathers attempt to fly across the Atlantic before Lindbergh he is fascinated by the stories. With the assistance of a time machine he goes back in time and meets him before his flight. Art Carney makes a good grandfather. Good casting, locations, and music. An entertaining family movie worth seeing.

Put Huckleberry Fox, Peter Coyote, and Art Carney in a Fantasy Adventure film dealing with airplanes and time travel, add an intelligent script, excellent performances by the entire cast, give it a couple dashes of suspense, a few pinches of comedy, and capture it all with dazzling cinematography, and you have The Blue Yonder. This is the type of film that I actively seek out. BRAVO to all who worked on this fine family film.