Main Cast: Joseph Mazzello, Joey Simmrin, Alex Daniels, Arthur Burghardt, Brian Simpson
Release Year: 1998
Country: US
Run Time: 101 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
Withdrawn, skinny seventh-grader Spencer Griffith (Joseph Mazzello), who spends recess avoiding class bully Turbo (Joey Simmrin), gets some encouragement from his teacher, Janet Holloway (Corinne Bohrer), but his life remains stuck at the starting gate. One night Spencer spots a meteor, checks it out, and discovers the android Cyborsuit (Alex Daniels, with the voice of Arthur Burghardt), a being that seeks an organic host to inhabit its interior. Spencer does just that, and once inside, he learns that he has superpowers. Obviously, Turbo will prove to be no match, but then Spencer finds he must defeat the outer-space arachnid Broodwarrior (Brian Simpson). Filmed under the working title The Warrior of Waverly Street. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
Michael D. Welch - Art Director, Allison Gordon-Kohler - Casting, Ileane Meltzer - Costume Designer, Manny Coto - Director, Bob Ducsay - Editor, Mark Amin - Executive Producer, Andrew Hersh - Executive Producer, Nicholas Pike - Composer (Music Score), Bari Dreiband-Burman - Makeup Special Effects, Thomas R. Burman - Makeup Special Effects, C.J. Strawn - Production Designer, Ronn Schmidt - Cinematographer, Jennie Lew Tugend - Producer, Irina Rivera - Set Designer, Thomas C. Rainone - Special Effects, Turtle Island Sound - Sound/Sound Designer, Manny Coto - Screenwriter
The film is about a shyseventh grade boy (Spencer Griffith) whose life changes when a meteor falls into a junkyard near him. Inside this junkyard he finds a "Cybersuit" - an exo-suit with AI from another galaxy. Spencer decides to try the suit on and he becomes a different person. Then he is attacked by a Brood Warrior, whose insectoid race is in war against the creators of the Cybersuits, intent to capture the one on Earth to analyze it. In the end after a battle with the Brood Warrior, Spencer abandons Cy (the Cybersuit) and leaves because he's afraid. In the end after finding that Cy has been captured by the Brood Warrior, Spencer returns with the school bully Turbo (who was cowed after Spencer punched him) and engages in battle with the Warrior in the Junkyard. After a massive battle Cy is defeated and is severely damaged and he ejects Spencer before he loses power completely. Spencer and Turbo continue the fight without Cy and together manage to destroy the Brood Warrior but Cy apparently dies. Cy's creators then show up and repair him. One of them gives Spencer a badge before he and the others leave with one of the aliens now piloting Cy. The next day Spencer has confidence and (with a little encouragement from Turbo as the two are now friends after the battle) approaches a girl that he likes and sits down to talk with her.
