Solarbabies (1986)
(On Cable TV, October 2021) I could claim to be overdosing on cheap post-apocalyptic films at the moment, but the truth is that it usually takes only one of them to have my fill anyway—long the domain of bargain-basement filmmaking, the post-apocalyptic genre is usually carte blanche given to unimaginative filmmakers to do whatever they want without regard for wit, coherence or realism. In director Alan Johnson’s Solarbabies, we have the usual movie cliché of post-apocalyptic stories combined with teen-movie clichés to end up with a result too stupid for adults and too repellent for younger audiences. I’m not sure what I least liked about Solarbabies (the robot sidekick? The teen-speak? The world-building incoherencies?) but I certainly know that I hated all of it. All right, that’s it—I’m done thinking about this film.