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Rocketeer
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CAMPBELL,BILL
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305428510
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788816314
Label: Walt Disney Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrench (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
MPN: 717951003195
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 21, 1991
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Editorial Review:
Based on a retro-styled comic book hit of the '80s, this Disney film was meant to launch a whole line of Rocketeer films--but the series began and ended with this one. That's too bad, because this underrated Joe Johnston film has a certain loopy charm. The story centers on a pre-World War II stunt pilot (Bill Campbell) who accidentally comes into possession of a rocket-propelled backpack much coveted by the Nazis. With the aid of his mechanic pal (Alan Arkin), he gets it up and running, then uses it to foil a plot by a gang of vicious Nazi spies (is there any other kind?) led by Timothy Dalton. Jennifer Connelly is on hand as the love interest, but the real fun here is when the Rocketeer takes off. There's also a nifty battle atop an airborne blimp. --Marshall Fine
In the 1930's an adventurous young pilot discovers a rocketpack that turns him into the Rocketeer, then must fight off bad guys who want the pack for a weapon.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Release Date: 3-SEP-2002
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Son of Commander Cody
Dave Stevens graphic novel -- an obvious tip of the hat to Republic serial classics such as RADAR MEN ON THE MOON and KING OF THE ROCKETMEN -- this wonderfully entertaining film in a summer when TERMINATOR 2 sucked up all the box office oxygen. Too bad, nice performances by Bill Campbell as a barn storming pilot in 1938, Alan Arkin as his sidekick mechanic, the lovely (and very young) Jennifer Connolly as the girl friend, Paul Sorvino as a gangster, and ex-James Bond Timothy Dalton as an Errol ... Read More
Rating: - Skyrockets to the top of my list as one of the most exciting family films of all time...
I remember as a young boy absolutely loving this movie. At every sleepover this movie was mandatory. I probably saw `The Rocketeer' a record fifty times as a child and then, sadly, I grew up. In fact I haven't seen this movie in almost ten years. Well, I guess I should say `hadn't' as in that I hadn't seen this movie in almost ten years, because thankfully I caught this movie on Encore the other night and since then it's the only movie I've been able to think of. Sure, this is not a perfect film, ... Read More
Rating: - In light of Ironman's success, revisit Rocketeer
Ironman has been a big success, with its big budget effects, but my group of teenagers were recently smitten by Rocketeer. (I was using the Region 2 DVD which has a colorful, widescreen transfer.) Jack Horner's rousing score still stirs my blood -- enough that I bought the CD. One reviewer from Texas thinks that Jenny's cleavage is a bit too expansive for young boys, but this is a cartoon brought to life, and, as in Roger Rabbit, many things seem exaggerated. The reference to Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose ... Read More
Rating:  - Saturday Matinee
Just as I remembered it at the theater.
Having grown up in the lead generation with television, I have a great fondness for the the movies, and movie serials of the late 1930s and early 1940s (Flash Gordon, Don Winslow of the Coast Guard, etc.) which were pretty much all that was available in the way of TV programming then.
The Rocketeer reflects the simpliticy, moral values, and conviction to triumph over the Axis powers that drove these pictures. You knew if our fate was entrusted ... Read More
Rating: - Loved this movie
The movie was a favorite of mine during the childhood of my daughter. I had it on LASER DISC, and we watched it often.
The cast was terrific and the use of a resurrected Rondo Hatton "The Creeper" as the huge villain was brilliant.
I've always wished that Timothy Dalton would have done more Bond films and more swash buckler type films. He would have been great in The Princess Bride!
Jennifer Connelly is beautiful chubby or skinny, and Alan Arkin always turns in a great performance. ... Read More
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