On July 4, the US Independence Day, the comedy film «Space Cadet» starring Emma Roberts was released on the Prime Video streaming platform. In the review below, we will tell you what this comedy has to offer the viewer and why it is better to avoid it. Even if you are a fan of comedies, movies about space, and Emma Roberts in one person.
Pluses:
In fact, there is none, except for a more or less normal cast, and even then there is nothing to play;
Minuses:
the plot is a complete nonsense; the film is positioned as a comedy, but does not work in this genre at all; very poor technical execution of the scenes in space;
«Space Cadet»
Genre comedy
Director Liz V. Garcia
Starring Emma Roberts, Tom Hopper, Poppy Lew, Gabrielle Union, Kuhu Verma
Premiere Prime Video
Year of issue 2024
Website IMDb
In sunny Florida, a young blonde Tiffany «Rex» Simpson has been dreaming of space travel since childhood, but is forced to pour cocktails at a local bar. But one day, after a high school reunion, she rethinks her life and finally decides to take a step towards her old dream. She starts writing an email to NASA with the hope of being accepted into the astronaut training program.
Strangely enough, it works — the heroine is invited to compete with several dozen other lucky people for the right to travel to space. However, no one, not even Tiffany herself, realizes that the letter had significant edits from her best friend Nadine. Which, so to speak, put the ordinary bartender from Florida in a much better light in front of the strict NASA officials.
If someone was expecting a light, pleasant comedy with Emma Roberts before watching it, they will be sorely disappointed. Because «Space Cadet» — is not a light, not particularly enjoyable, and certainly not a comedy. Watching it risks turning into a real test, and psychologically much harder than those that await the main character on her way to her dream. So what kind of ease can we talk about?
Here, it is necessary to note the complete conventionality of the plot, in which one of the most famous space agencies in the world is shown as a bunch of incompetent fools. With such a headquarters, even a legally blonde, the author of this review or an unwashed redneck with a chainsaw. This is especially contrasting in the context of the existence of another film on the same topic and from the same Prime Video — a biopic «A Million Miles Away», whose plot was literally based on how difficult it is to accomplish such a mission and how thorny the path to it can be.
However, this is not a dramatic story, but rather a comedy, so even such a light-hearted approach could have been quite justified. However, only if the film really worked on the genre level. But no, «Space Cadet» fails terribly as a comedy.
Let’s list some of the humorous moments and outline the level of humor on offer. For example, Tiffany’s father works as a ghostbuster, and somewhere in the world, Bill Murray could have burned with shame. In one of the scenes, the viewer is presented with their own version of the astronauts’ triumphant procession in the slum before the launch, and at this point, some of the cast could have thrown up «Armageddon». There was also the fall of a harmful competitor on the treadmill, although that was really funny, almost the only thing.
What can we say about the technical execution of the scenes in space itself — it’s not even «Gravity» at minimum settings, but some kind of papier-mâché in a studio void with «space» backdrops.
There is nothing to say about the interaction of the characters because the actors have nothing to play. There are minimal hints of a romantic storyline that is not properly developed. There’s Emma Roberts at the controls of the plane, but again, at this point «top gun» Tom Cruise must have almost choked on his elixir of youth. We have our own Elon Musk, but his presence is minimal and does not affect anything. There’s even a pseudo-cameo by Keanu Reeves, but believe me, it doesn’t add to the joy.
«Space Cadet» — an extremely lazy and absurd movie that fails to interest the viewer, or to give moments of pleasant leisure at the screen, or to improve the mood with jokes, although this is exactly what the movie is supposed to do. All you can really count on is 100 minutes of wasted time, which no one will give you back.
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