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Flight of the Navigator
"Flight of the Navigator" (1986) follows a 12-year-old boy who disappears in 1978 and reappears eight years later, not having aged, having been taken aboard an advanced alien spacecraft that used his brain to store its navigational star maps, blending first contact with a time-displacement mystery structure. Its alien spacecraft character, voiced initially by Paul Reubens and rendered through then-groundbreaking computer-generated imagery for its transforming, liquid-metal-like exterior, represented a significant early use of CGI character animation in mainstream family filmmaking. The film's central mystery, built around the protagonist gradually uncovering what actually happened to him during his missing eight years, gave the story a distinctive investigative structure relative to first contact films that reveal the alien encounter from the outset. Its combination of its groundbreaking early CGI alien spacecraft and its distinctive time-displacement mystery structure has made "Flight of the Navigator" one of the most technically innovative and narratively distinctive family-oriented first contact films of the 1980s.
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Paul
"Paul" (2011), starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, follows two British science fiction fans on a road trip across the American Southwest who encounter a wisecracking, foul-mouthed alien named Paul who has escaped from a secret government facility, treating first contact as a comedic buddy-road-trip premise. Its affectionate parody of decades of science fiction and first contact film conventions, including direct references to "E.T.," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and numerous other genre touchstones, reflected writers Pegg and Frost's genuine affection for the genre they were simultaneously spoofing. The film's alien character Paul, rendered through motion-capture performance and voiced by Seth Rogen, combined convincing visual effects with a deliberately crude, irreverent personality that subverted the more reverent or menacing alien characterizations typical of the genre's more serious entries. Its combination of its affectionate genre parody and its subversively irreverent alien protagonist has made "Paul" one of the most distinctly comedic entries in the first contact film tradition.
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