Yes, this is the actual cover. And no, he's not the main character.
Star Games is a 1997 Direct to Video film and the final movie directed by Greydon Clark, the man behind Joysticks and Final Justice. Starring Daran Norris, Tony Curtis and Greydon Clark's own sons, Trevor and Travis. After getting lost in the woods during a family camping trip, the diabetic and video game-addicted Brian (Trevor) meets Kirk (Travis): a boy who just so happens to be an alien prince on the run from the sinister Galactic Conquerer Lugos. Friendship blossoms, adventures ensue and, and... Let's just cut to the chase: it's a bad movie.
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This movie contains examples of:
- Aliens Are Bastards: Lugos, seeing how he's the only one that's clearly an alien.
- Arc Symbol: Triangles and pyramids are liberally scattered throughout the film. And it's never explained why.
- Bears Are Bad News: Brian, Kirk and eventually the villains are threatened by wild bears in the forest.
- Big Bad: Lugos, who is bent on galactic domination.
- Casual Interstellar Travel: All Kirk has to do is hop in his mother's spaceship and tell Happy to set a course for Earth. So yes, very casual.
- Creepy Child: Kirk - albeit an unintentional example.
- Digital Avatar: Happy the Clown, who inhabits the computer onboard Kirk's spaceship. He also takes the form of a lawyer, a soldier and Travis Bickle.
- Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: Lugos and his robot soldiers are outmatched and outwitted by two children. It makes you wonder how he's even a credible threat to the universe.
- Energy Weapon: Used regularly by both the good and bad guys. And they always look like translucent plastic tubes or coathangers for some reason.
- Feudal Future: Implied to be the case for the rest of the galaxy.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Happy freaks Brian out when the two first meet. Happy then decides to shift into a lawyer, but changes back when that proves to be even creepier (somehow).
- The Good King: Kirk's grandfather, Findel.
- Human Aliens: The only alien ever seen is Lugos; everyone else is human.
- Humans Are White: Good luck finding a single minority in the entire film.
- Insistent Terminology: Kirk insists on calling planets by their "correct" name. For example, Mars' real name is supposedly "Furdik."
- In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: Earth is regarded by Kirk's kingdom as a violent, ugly place.
- Military Salute: Lugos' robotic henchmen have a very unfortunate looking one.
- Medical Monarch: Kirk is able to heal Brian's wounded hand instantly.
- Non-Ironic Clown: Happy is an attempted example, but at least he's got a fairly amicable personality.
- A Planet Named Zok: In spades: Alriscon, Furdik, Zandez, Nurwan, Skutenesh, etc.
- Sapient Ship: Kirk's spaceship, thanks to Happy.
- Space Battle: In the opening scenes. Though it looks more like a poorly-rendered LSD trip.
- Space Romans: Kirk's homeworld and culture is lifted straight out of medieval Europe.
- Universal Translator: One of the functions that Kirk's watch has.
