Who payed the critics

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Silly nonsense about a post-apocalyptic future where it doesn't rain and the kids are raised in a prison. There they play a game that's kind of a kids' version of Rollerball and wait to grow up and become guards or something for the corporation running the world. They find a glowing alien ball called Bohdai and uninteresting stuff happens. Laughable to the extreme, with ugly-looking '80s costumes and an odd fascination with rollerskating. It's unintentionally funny at times, and I totally give it points for that, but ultimately it's just embarrassing for all involved. See it for Jami Gertz, because you should see anything with Jami Gertz.

In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of teenagers, living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth.The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and are quite good.It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government.Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the stormtroopers search for them and the orb....I thought this would have been a bit of fun, Prayer of the Rollerboys crossed with the camp bits of Beyond Thunderdome, with half of the cast of the lost boys thrown in for good measure.It's a good slice of eighties sci-fi (not the good sort), but the problem lies with the many plots that are developed, and never elaborated which disturb the narrative.But, for what it's worth, it has it's moments. Jordan wears a uniform that makes him look like a thunderbird, there is a wonderful torture apparatus in the mix, and it has a whole explorers/masters of the universe/cyborg feel to it.If you can ignore the story and some of the plot points, and realise that it's a good old slice of eighties cheese, you may appreciate something.

After about 20 years of having little more than vague memories of this movie rollerskating about in my head, I finally broke down and re-watched Solarbabies.All I can say is, well, bless them for trying. It really isn't a BAD movie... it does manage to be entertaining even though it occasionally drags. The only problem is that it borrows a lot from other movies and never seems to decide on a style of its own.Overall I didn't feel as drawn in to the story as I'd hoped, but despite the somewhat vague plot and generic characters, it was still good fun. And if nothing else, it teaches us that all we really need to set things right in the world are friendship and roller skating. And maybe a magic ball from outer space.

A film about kids on skates (Gotta capture that Xanadu audience), and Alien Ball and no water. Well it seems I gave away the whole movie just in that sentence. Well there are some good things if you are a fan of Rick Springfield lookalikes. Actually if anything makes this film worth watching it is the lovely Jami Gertz! The scene were she is in the white robe and lit from behind drove my young blood wild! For those that like the bad girl we have one of the baddest, Sarah Douglas, looking like she did not change wardrobe much from her Superman II appearance as Ursa. Looks like she traded one Phantom Zone for another. Still it might be worth a watch just to laugh at some of the 80's-isims in the film. Like what are they making in the desert factory that burns tires......Hair gel?