I guerrieri del sole

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.

I remember when I first saw this film, I must have been about six years old (1990 or so), I thought this film was amazing at that time. I've since watched it several times as an adult and all I can do is laugh at every serious scene in this movie. This film is about a future in which roller skates apparently make a huge come back. All of the worlds water (or most of it anyway) is being stored in a building about the size of Yankee stadium. There is no rain because apparently there is also no such thing as evaporation (although plenty of the cast are sweating throughout the film). All animals except a few birds and a couple of attack dogs are dead (or hiding really well ^_^). All plant life is dead and gone which means two things, No salad, and oxygen must be supplied by planet Druidia! My favorite scene in the whole movie is when "Rabbit" dare I say the only back person left alive on the planet, does a very non-offensive Harlem Globe Trotters routine with the "Sphere of Longiness". You will enjoy this movie if you want some chuckles, please watch it and, "Enjoy a decent life grid!" (That line cracks me up!)

It's like this movie was made to be parodied by Mystery Science Theater. It starts out with a bunch of teenagers skating through a DESERT of all places (you know, rock, sand and roller skates-- a match made in heaven) and just gets worse from there. Imagine a teen street hockey team fighting against a major-cliché heavily armored "Nazi regime" army... and somehow not getting killed in the process.

A blue ball comes from outer space for no known reason in the universe and despite evidently having the power to do just about anything it cares to do, can't manage to keep itself from being captured and nearly destroyed. And why? Well, because it relies on a 10-year-old boy as the source of its power. (Or so we guess. There's really no way to know for sure, because they never explain that part at all.)

This is so bad it's bad bad. It's one of those movies that all the way through the viewer is asking, "Why am I even watching this?" but we can't break away because... what's gonna happen in the end? Let me save you some time without spoilers: not much happens. Kids out-skate killer desert vehicles, kids out-skate blasters and heavily-armed soldiers, kids out-skate exploding buildings. Evidently in the far future roller skating is some kind of super-power because boy howdy, it sure works for this group!

Ethel, pass the popcorn and a clothespin, 'cos this one's a stinker.

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.

I only write reviews of movies with low rating, which actually are not that bad. Give them a chance!

If you like apocalypse / post-apocalypse and you are aware that this is a teenage movie, I don't know why you wouldn't like it! It is really cool, story is good, they made an effort to create post-apocalyptic world and everything else works fine. Kids are not acting well, that I must admit, but they are kids... and pretty much all other 80s teenage movies have the same problem, but that does not mean Solarbabies should have 4.8 ( as in this moment ). It is a solid movie, and if you like apocalypse I am sure that you will like this one, too.

6/10