My friends Dan and Marianne have been telling me about how totally underrated and funny this movie is and basically how it would behoove me not to believe all the naysaying and actually give it a chance myself. First off: Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Enrico Colantoni, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, and Buzz Lightyear are in it (awesome), as well as small appearances by Rainn Wilson and Justin Long (who, despite being attached to Drew Barrymore and starring in things like Herbie: Fully Loaded will always hold a dear place in my heart from his being in Happy Campers, one of my favorite surprise movies of all time). As long as the movie isn't terrible, how could I not like it?
The best part of the movie early on is definitely Keith Mars (if you don't know this reference, shame on you) as the head liaison from the alien ship. He's seriously hysterical; actually all the Klaatu (you should also know that reference) are amazing. And basically the premise of the movie is that these people think that the stars of the titular TV show are real space captains who can save them from their own difficult "space war". Of course, since they are actors in a TV show, they are completely unprepared for this "real life" situation.
LOL @ "Look around. Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?"
I think that the most successful parts of the movie are the ones that spoof the space genre/movies in general. Case in point: the ship where the movie is "set" is an exact replica of the one used in the TV show. At one point, Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver have to stop the core from imploding, which they do by pushing a button, but when the timer doesn't stop, they think they're in peril. However, the timer stops at 1 second remaining because, as Weaver points out, "it always stops at one second on the show." The parts like this are the most successful.
Pretty great film. Certainly better than most of the shit that pretends to parody things but falls impossibly short.
Score: 8/10
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