C4 - Friday, July 27, 1984 - North Shore News

THE LAST STARFIGHTER

Space fantasy parallels land of Oz

IT’S FINALLY happened. Star Wars and the
Wizard of Oz have merged in the movie The Last
Starfighter. With a bit of gender bending, Dorothy
is called Alex Rogan, a teen stuck in a small dusty
town where the adults don’t understand him and he

never has any fun.

Alex (Lance Guest) wants a
chance to escape the Starlite
Trailor Court and prove to
everyone including his
girlfriend Maggie (Catherine
Mary Stewart) that he is go-
ing to be someone.

**...he finds
his own Kan-
Sas twister
that will whisk
him away
from boredom
and point him
towards the
Stars.”’

Alex turns his frustration
into a fixation with beating
the one million mark on the
local video game, defending
the universe against the inva-
sion of alien creatures. When

By COLIN LAMONT

pout mark, he finds his own
Kansas twister that will whisk
him away from boredom and
point him towards the stars.
What more could any red-
blooded American boy ask
for?

Alex is offered a chance to
become a Starfighter by a
space-age horse trader named
Centauri (Robert Preston).
Preston 1s at his predictable
best in a similiar role to his
famed Music Man image,
wheeling and dealing to make
a buck while remaining the
lovable rogue. He blasts off
with the starry-eyed teen for
a distant planet, where it
turns out that Alex is the last
remaining defence against
aliens who are. breaking
through the borders of the
Galaxy to pillage and burn
everything in their path.

Hesitant at first, Alex sets
out with his guide Grig, a
talking tguana-faced creature
that is Toto, the Tin Man, the
Lion and the Scarecrow all
rolied into one. With the
‘Gung Ho Iguana” at the
navigational controts of his
starfighter, Alex is soon play-

against an array of evil aliens
that resemble the angry talk-
ing trees that plagued poor
Dorothy and her friends.

With every Star Wars
special effect at its command,
The Last Starfighter (while
obviously a cliche of many
similiar films) is a harmless
bit of fantasy, with little ac-
tual gory violence in it.

A good old fashioned
thriller that most kids should
look forward to, this film will
also let adults sleep easily,
knowing their kids won’t
have nightmares from wat-

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of evil that threaten’ the
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fast series of video moves,
soon puts the run to those
nasty gnarled tree like
villians.

But The Last Starfighter
has one up on the old Wizard
of Oz fantasy. While
Dorothy decided that there
was no place like home, Alex
isn’t about to return to his
dusty trailor park and che
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Why kill a good fantasy just
when it’s getting interesting?
Besides, what’s Kansas got
that the galaxy doesn't?

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