it took me a few years to hunt down this title and a major staple of my childhood. almost every trip to the video shop i would pick out space raiders and watch it three times every time my mother rented it for me. it was and i suppose and my star wars. it a shame then that it such a stinker. my memories were so hazy that it offered nothing in terms of nostalgia so i had to take it at face value. a crew of space pirates accidentally kidnap a pretty annoying little kid and spend the rest of the movie trying to get him home. aimed squarely at the under tens it got unwelcome slapstick and very shoddy costumes and make up and recycled special effects and wobbly sets and poor acting. but even with the unintentional comedy it no fun to see it as an adult and where i can pick out not just the technical faults but wonder at how spectacularly the writer and director managed to botch an endless stream of no brainer fun or powerful moments that have been seen in a million other sci fi movies and in the hands of anyone remotely competent should have been successful. i imagine as a kid i probably found it quite empowering  there are lots of i can not do this and i am just a kid sure you can kiddo and you just have to try. type exchanges while the kid drinks beer and etc. and but even by low budget 1983 sci fi standards this one pretty awful and with a real snoozer of a finale. 
it took me a few years to hunt down this title and a major staple of my childhood. almost every trip to the video shop i would pick out space raiders and watch it three times every time my mother rented it for me. it was and i suppose and my star wars. it a shame then that it such a stinker. my memories were so hazy that it offered nothing in terms of nostalgia so i had to take it at face value. a crew of space pirates accidentally kidnap a pretty annoying little kid and spend the rest of the movie trying to get him home. aimed squarely at the under tens it got unwelcome slapstick and very shoddy costumes and make up and recycled special effects and wobbly sets and poor acting. but even with the unintentional comedy it no fun to see it as an adult and where i can pick out not just the technical faults but wonder at how spectacularly the writer and director managed to botch an endless stream of no brainer fun or powerful moments that have been seen in a million other sci fi movies and in the hands of anyone remotely competent should have been successful. i imagine as a kid i probably found it quite empowering  there are lots of i can not do this and i am just a kid sure you can kiddo and you just have to try. type exchanges while the kid drinks beer and etc. and but even by low budget 1983 sci fi standards this one pretty awful and with a real snoozer of a finale. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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