Solarbabies (DVD)

When I was sent an email from Amazon announcing the release of Solarbabies, I just had to order a copy. It was one of those 80’s cult classic films I just had to have.

With a ton of reviews out there about how terrible this film was, I had to post a review that boasted the exact opposite. For a young nine year old boy growing up in the 80’s who loved fantasy and sci-fi films, Solarbabies was a very enjoyable movie. I didn’t watch it for the realism, the dialogue, or the acting. I watched the film purely because it was cool. Everything from the rollerskating to the crush I had on the incredibly hot Jami Gertz.

Synopsis:

In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are 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 is 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 (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the stormtroopers search for them and the orb