Watch with a parent
Best from age 8 · PG · 1986 · 90 min
Watch with a parentBest from age 8 · PG · 1986 · 90 min · Family · Science fiction · Adventure
Flight of the Navigator
Reviewed by the Movie-Knight team · Updated
Flight of the Navigator is a bright 1986 science-fiction adventure about a 12-year-old boy who disappears for eight years without aging a day and returns to a family that has moved on without him. The tone is playful and the alien ship is more funny than frightening, but the story rests on a real ache: a child separated from the life he knew. Most kids 8 and older handle it easily, and younger viewers who are sensitive to being lost or left behind may need a parent nearby.
Is Flight of the Navigator OK for kids, and for what age?
Watch with a parent. Movie Knight rates it best from age 8. Rated PG.
What's in it
0 = none · 10 = intenseViolence & peril
Mild1/10
Language
Mild1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
None0/10
Romance & sensuality
None0/10
Scary moments
Mild2/10
Heads up
- A child goes missing and his family grieves
- Brief government testing scenes that feel tense
- Mild name-calling between brothers
Models well
- Curiosity and wonder
- Family reunion
- Courage in the unknown
Talk about it after
- How did David feel coming home to a family that had aged without him?
- What would you miss most if eight years passed in one night?
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