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Does not compute: The 10 most annoying kid + robot team-ups

By Rich Trenholm on 21 April 2008, 5:48pm


Max and Jinx (SpaceCamp)
As wish-fulfilment nonsense goes, SpaceCamp scores pretty high on the tosh-o-meter. With NASA's co-operation making this 1986 movie one of the most realistic depictions of the space programme, the producers decided they needed to throw in some annoying kids -- and lots of them.

Somehow it was decided that space travel -- frakkin' space travel! -- wasn't exciting enough, and what was needed was, you guessed it, a child genius and a robot that could talk. Max the smart kid was played by Joaquin Phoenix, while the robot was given the name Jinx -- which is asking for trouble, frankly. When Max wishes he was in space, Jinx rigs a shuttle test firing so the kids would be launched into space, and all sorts of exciting hi-jinks ensued. Well, we assume so, we'd zoned out, thinking about our favourite off switches.

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