This is one of the movies you usually oversee at the video store, because of the cover - it gives you the feeling that this film will be really stupid. To be honest, this feeling is really quite right.
The idea of a real idiot (some nutty computer-geek) becoming a space man because the guy really in for the job manages to make a jerk of himself during the landing-simulation and while proving that it was his fault he winds up in a wheelchair because of a few broken bones, seems like a good laugh. Unfortunately the director seems to have thought that 45 jokes per minute isn't enough. This overkill with jokes of all sorts makes a great deal of them really sick. Our hero seems more like a complete lunatic who normally wouldn't be allowed on the street instead of a harmless computer-weirdo.
Apart from that the movie is good for a few REALLY good laughs. And it gets better as it plays. Once our hero and his crew have left Earth most of the jokes are really good. We had to stop the video several times to calm down from laughing - otherwise we would have missed something.
All in all a good movie for a funny trip with friends, not exactly the thing to start a romantic evening though.
NOTE: I saw this movie in German only. Usually the German translations tend to ruin a move so this text may not apply for other languages.
The idea of a real idiot (some nutty computer-geek) becoming a space man because the guy really in for the job manages to make a jerk of himself during the landing-simulation and while proving that it was his fault he winds up in a wheelchair because of a few broken bones, seems like a good laugh. Unfortunately the director seems to have thought that 45 jokes per minute isn't enough. This overkill with jokes of all sorts makes a great deal of them really sick. Our hero seems more like a complete lunatic who normally wouldn't be allowed on the street instead of a harmless computer-weirdo.
Apart from that the movie is good for a few REALLY good laughs. And it gets better as it plays. Once our hero and his crew have left Earth most of the jokes are really good. We had to stop the video several times to calm down from laughing - otherwise we would have missed something.
All in all a good movie for a funny trip with friends, not exactly the thing to start a romantic evening though.
NOTE: I saw this movie in German only. Usually the German translations tend to ruin a move so this text may not apply for other languages.