For those with a soft spot for coming-of-age adventures, Rim of the World is just passable, but it's riddled with logic leaps, tonal inconsistencies and out of touch humor.

The clockwork storyline is brazen in its adherence to formula, as if a Learning Annex seminar somehow came to life.

Its greatest value is probably in how it could educate budding movie-lovers on cheesy and predictable storytelling, but even that seems like a lesson Rim of the World cynically teaches at an elementary level.

A funny, character-driven film and a throwback to the sci-fi films that helped shape pop culture.