This kid is having weird dreams about circuit boards and shit, so he gets the school brainiac to build the whatsit he's dreaming about and I'll be fucked titless if it isn't a flying bubble that can be used to wreak havoc from afar and spy on cute girls through their bedroom windows. Being able to vandalize shit without fear of getting caught and possibly see naked chicks covers every base a 14-year-old boy could possibly care about, but it gets even better when they realize that they can use the bubble to make an honest-to-fuck spaceship. They steal all the stuff they need (awesome), cobble the bastard together, and start terrorizing the town with it, but then something else tries to take control of the thing and it starts to look like the whole setup is just an unnecessarily complicated plan to alien abduct them. So after all this build-up, what happens? They finally meet the aliens (which look completely retarded, by the way), and the aliens sing TV theme songs and quote old commercials for fifteen minutes.

[Insert thirty seconds of stunned silence here.]

Even back in 1985 the whole "space aliens obsessed with TV" bit had been done so many times that only the most talentless of hacks would even consider trotting it out again, and yet here it is in a big Hollywood movie! It's almost beyond comprehension. The only thing that would be lamer is if the aliens had turned out to be kids and their parents suddenly... Wait a minute, who's that big alien who just...?

Holy fuck you have GOT TO BE SHITTING ME.

This is, no exaggeration, the worst ending to an otherwise passable movie that ever has or ever will exist. And now that I think about it, what was the deal with the sideplot about the old guy who's been having dreams about the aliens ever since he was a kid? This guy shows up halfway through the movie and it seems like he might be kind of important, and at the very least his story is probably pretty interesting. Why didn't he ever build the spaceship? Did he try to, but screwed up somehow? How does he feel now that someone else has managed to pull it off? This movie can't be bothered to think that hard though, so he just stands there with his thumb up his ass while the kids fly away and we never see him again. God damn you, Explorers, you lazy piece of shit. Thanks for reducing the wonders of the universe to the Mr. Ed theme song, you ass-sucking, cunt-plugging piece of fuckhole garbage.

The guy who made this flick made Gremlins, and if you ever wondered why you never heard much about him after he made a movie as popular and famous as Gremlins, well now you know.