Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

bob the moo When he is late in delivering a consignment of square pigs to boss Keller, space trucker John Canyon gets into a fight and is forced to take the first available load and flee the space station with young trucker Mike and fiancé Cindy in tow. When they sustain damage from an asteroid, they are stranded and prepare to die slowly – only to be raided (and rescued) by pirates. However when the pirates try to unload the cargo they are met by resistance – resistance meant to defend the load of lethal bio-mechanical soldiers on their way to attack earth. The captain of the pirates (who also created the soldiers) plans to try and use them for his own ends.As many, many other people will tell you, this film isn't very good at all. In fact it quite rubbish at points but at other times you can see what it was trying to do and it is not so rubbish that you can't sit and enjoy it in some ways. The plot is utter nonsense and relies on coincidences and other poor plot devices to keep things moving – however it does provide big dumb explosions if that is all you were after. Also it tries to be a sort of sci-fi spoof while also being a sci-fi at the same time. This is not totally successful as it is like having its cake and eating it, but it would have taken a better film to pull that off. Here it fails to do it and, although some of it is funny (the captain having mechanical trouble 'down there' is one) it generally misses the mark and its two aims cancel one another out. I think a big problem is that it all feels so very silly and trashy; and a lot of it is down to the costume and set design. Now, when the Oscars are given out for these disciplines I must admit I rarely pay attention, but this is a film that badly needed a better design team. The look of the ships is meant to be similar to trucks, OK, but the sets all look plastic and cheap – like a slight touch would have them falling too bits. Likewise the costumes etc all look like they have been knocked up by someone's mother the night before they were due to hand in a school project.The big robots look impressive even on a budget and I just wondered why the rest of the film just looked like cr*p.Of course, blaming the sets for this film is unfair and most of the blame must go on the writers who totally failed to deliver a spoof sci-fi; instead their film has way too few laughs and is far too silly to be an effective sci-fi – they had two aims and missed them both. God only knows how it got the couple of stars it got – maybe they saw potential that is lost on me now but with little material to work with they really are stranded in a film that they must have known was going to stink the place out. Hopper and Dorff are a charismatic pair and they are fun to watch, but neither looks totally happy – in fact, if anything, they look resigned, not a mindset you really want in your cast! Mazar does her usual Noo Yark stuff reasonable well but the support cast swings from the badly miscast (Wendt) to the hammy (Dance) to the average (everyone else). Like I say, I can't understand how it got these guys all involved but it certainly gave them nothing to do.Overall this is a pretty poor film but it is not unrelenting rubbish. It has some moments where it is a little funny and some moments where the sci-fi action becomes passable in a 'Friday night in' sort of way but, outside of these odd moments it mostly misses the two targets it was aiming for – comedy and sci-fi. The cast look like they have given up and accepted the fact that their contracts are binding but they more than anyone must have looked round at their sets and costumes made of cheap plastic and realized that this was going to be a piece of junk that they just need to do and try to forget about. Maybe worth a look if you're in a really undemanding mood but, aside from a few passable bits I doubt anyone will take much from this (other than 'the p*ss'!).

Sintek I love a good movie (or bad in this case) that knows it sucks, and revels in that fact by going to the extremes of B-cheesieness.Of course if you go in expecting a space opera and end up with a rodeo, you're going to be upset. Don't set any expectations and just have fun with this film.

angelo-arifi K, one day my father picked up a movie with a 'neat' cover. Got home with my mom and we were like yay lets watch this new movie we never saw before! .. Ok so it started ... interesting start, cool robots and disgusting gore (eek) on a strange planet (actually it was Pluto wasn't it?)... Blablabla I could tell the whole story but I rather not point, WTF NEVER EVER pick up a movie with a lame ass name, and seriously don't EVER I mean EVER judge a book by its cover (err tape..) it looked like an interesting movie HOWEVER it was a slap to the face for sci-fi movies, its DISGUSTING. I mean it was so bad I just started laughing (I swear it tryed to be serious) I CANT DESCRIBE THE STUPIDITY! It killed more then a million brain cells of mine I can't even write a descent critique. ITS THAT BAD! Argh and I wana prepare you for something "strange' *COUGH COUGH* mechanical p3n1$ *COUGH COUGH* Sorry just had to say it, its so funny, think of it as a commedy or a parody of sorts for sci-fi movies. Its classic batman laughs but in a new packaging. What the hell was this director thinking?

DeeWee2002k This movie was no Lawrence of Arabia,but I liked it.Being a huge fan of Dennis Hopper,it caught my eye.I will admit that the story was kind of weak,it still was a lot of fun if you take it for what it is.It seems to me that some people have no sense of humor.If you take this movie in a simplistic point of view,I think that is more accurate.Take it for what it is!