''Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure'' is a 1988
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children's film
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directed by Deborah Brock and written by Brock and Jed Horovitz. It stars
Randy Josselyn,
Dianne Kay
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Early years
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, Chuck Kovacic, John Franklin, and
Vince Edwards
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. Its plot is about a boy who has to travel through several videos and static-filled channels in order to rescue his sister, who was snatched into the television because she sat too close to it.
As it was thought the film's original release title would be confused with ''
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
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'', the name was changed to ''Andy and the Airwave Rangers'' for 1989 video release.
The film is referred to as a full-length "cheater" in that it takes advantage of film highlights gleaned from previous
Roger Corman
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films ''
Space Raiders'', ''
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
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'', ''
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'', ''
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Wheels of Fire
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''.
Plot
Andy Colby (
Randy Josselyn) is a 12-year-old boy with too much time on his hands and an addiction to movies. He goes to a local video store looking for a movie he hasn't seen and asks the crazy video store clerk (John Bluto), for a real adventure. He is given a new video that isn't even on the shelves yet. He is also given instructions to never let go of the remote and don't sit too close to the television.
Unfortunately, his sister Bonnie (Jessica Puscas) is instead sucked into the TV and Andy has to rescue her. In his haste he ends up letting go of the remote and gets too close to the screen. With the help of characters from past movies, Andy has to face many trials to get his sister away from the purple and barely menacing villain, Lord Chroma (Chuck Kovacic).
Cast
*
Randy Josselyn as Andy Colby
*
Dianne Kay
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Early years
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as Mrs. Colby
* John Bluto as Video Store Clerk
* Chuck Kovacic as Lord Chroma
* Don Sparks as The Glitch
* John Franklin as The Gatekeeper
* Lara Piper as Bionda
* Jessica Puscas as Bonnie Colby
*
Vince Edwards
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as Space Raider
*
Patsy Pease
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Pease's first soap opera role was as waitress Cissie Mitchell Sentell on the soap opera ''Search for Tomorrow'' ...
as Space Raider
*
Luca Bercovici
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as Space Raider
*
Drew Snyder
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as Space Raider
*
Thom Christopher
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Christopher attended Ithaca College and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse.
He was best kno ...
as Space Raider
* Don Washburn as Space Raider
*
Bo Svenson
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as Kor The Conqueror
*
Erik Estrada
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Release
After its limited 1988 theatrical release as ''Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure'', the film was released in 1989 as ''Andy and the Airwave Rangers''. Over its various video releases the film was sometimes titled ''Andy Colby's Incredible Video Adventure.'' This film had little impact on the market of the late 80s. It is a ‘B’ film and was considered so in its various straight to VHS releases.
Though released in VHS in 1989 and DVD in 2006, the film can still be found theatrically at locations showing older films, such as
The Cinefamily Silent Movie Theater in
Los Angeles
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.
Criticism
Allrovi
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wrote that with the film's "crazy-quilt melange", its "young stars perform as well as possible under the circumstances (it's hard to be convincing while reacting to stock footage), but the film's acting honors go to Chuck Kovacic as the wigged-out villain."
The film had DVD release on February 7, 2006 by
Walt Disney Video.
References
External links
''Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure''at the
Internet Movie Database
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