"ParaNorman" PG
A New England town, Blithe Hollows, has a witch's curse in this strange animated movie about a freaky boy named Norman who sees dead people and has a weird psycho uncle who does also. He starts out having only one friend, the ghost of his grandma, and gradually picks up other friends along the way. When his parents don't get that he's a seer, and are aftraid of it because their relative is also, they forbid him to meet his uncle. Then the uncle shows up but is quickly dispatched, but not before goading him into promising to stop the annual witch festival and the curse which will raise the dead. Since Norman likes zombies, he is a bit more excited than afraid. Tagging along is his newfound friend, Niel and stalking him is his oplder sister, who enlists Niel's muscle bound brother to assist them in finding the cursed book and stopping the witch. and zombies. Then things get complicated as the townsfolk turn into a angry mob to storm the hall of records.Also there are a number of twists and adult bent jokes which the adults will get and kids will have no idea. This was not a bad thing necessarily. Since the film is about misconception, misunderstanding and loss, and ultimately bullying, it is very contemporary. It is one of the smarter kid movies to come out in a long time.
Review by Adam Browne
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Review: "The Captains" is oddball look back at Star Trek commanders
Review: "The Captains" PG
William Shatner hosts and directs the special for the 45th anniversary of Star Trek , 'The Captains', a documentary style road trip where he goes and meets up with the various Star Trek captains, those who have played the starship or station commander during an incarnation of the Star Trek series.
Shatner spends most of this time trying to draw attention to himself and mugging for the camera in a parody of his Boston Legal persona, Denny Crane, and possibly of himself, as he goes through the motions of meeting each one. He played the first Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise from the 1960s to the infamous 1994 film where his character was killed and not resurrected. (He does do a nod to Jeffrey Hunter from the pilot).
He completely ignores Leonard Nimoy because he had appeared in a scene in the new Star Trek 2009 movie but not as a captain. Also ignored is George Takei who played Casptain Sulu after being the helmsman on the old ship for years. (He is mentioned at least).
Shatner also attends a Las Vegas convention with Patrick Stewart, in the town a few years post the closing of the Experience attraction. Nice to know they are still doing that big convention there.
Patrick Stewart played Captain Picard of the Enterprise D on a new series called The Next Generation from 1987 to 2002. Oddly though the interview with some of his cast is sparse and even Jonathan Frakes who played his first officer, Riker, isn't given a credit but he is interviewed.
Avery Brooks played Captain Ben Sisko of edgy station Deep Space Nine from 1993 to 1999, a different toned fan favorite series.
Kate Mulgrew played the first official female captain, as an on screen movie cameo one didn't count in 1986 in the film Star Trek IV. She commanded Voyager in another part of the galaxy. Voyager ran from 1995 to 2001.
Scott Bacula played not just in Quantum Leap but in Enterprise, the prequel to the original series, from 2001 to 2005 and is the second commander to have his show cancelled. Shanter's had been first, but it came back and made movies.
Chris Pine, who plays Captain Kirk in the reimagined prequel to Kirk's story, set a dozen years before the 5 year mission, was in the 2009 movie (and will be in the sequel), although Shatner apparently didn't see any footage from it. He did see Unstoppable which starred Pine.
Shatner has a lot of fun trying to play jazz with a very spaced out Brooks, since both were captains that got killed off on a show, and it was fun to pretend they were in the afterlife.
Then he has fun with Chris Pine arm wrestling and talking about his movies.
He also enjoys pretending to be a 'captain inside' a box in New York, to Mulgrew and then both discuss the theater, where she has apparently been spending her time since Voyager ended.
Sr. Patrick Stewart and Shatner talk about how working hard on Star Trek ruined their marriages, and also this is something Mulgrew did too, but not so much Brooks. It is one of the more poigniant moments in the drama. Acting is hard. It is not easy to be on TV for 12 to 16 hours a day.
Scott Bacula tended to be more relaxed in his interview session and talked of the craft also and great people he worked with.
Chris Pine is too new to the thing to really know where he has been going in terms of an interview.
Shatner kisses up to the ladies of Trek at the convention also and does a few touching scenes with a severely disabled young male fan.
The documentary though is very Shatner, if you like that, and he is very full of himself. It is funny when Mulgrew pulls him down to Earth a few times and Stewart also pines for the camera and pulls him back a bit too.
This was probably meant to have come out for the 40th year but Paramount was sitting on its hands about the making of that new movie.
Star Trek lives! Shatner's head is bigger than ever. Ha.
Review by Adam Browne
William Shatner hosts and directs the special for the 45th anniversary of Star Trek , 'The Captains', a documentary style road trip where he goes and meets up with the various Star Trek captains, those who have played the starship or station commander during an incarnation of the Star Trek series.
Shatner spends most of this time trying to draw attention to himself and mugging for the camera in a parody of his Boston Legal persona, Denny Crane, and possibly of himself, as he goes through the motions of meeting each one. He played the first Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise from the 1960s to the infamous 1994 film where his character was killed and not resurrected. (He does do a nod to Jeffrey Hunter from the pilot).
He completely ignores Leonard Nimoy because he had appeared in a scene in the new Star Trek 2009 movie but not as a captain. Also ignored is George Takei who played Casptain Sulu after being the helmsman on the old ship for years. (He is mentioned at least).
Shatner also attends a Las Vegas convention with Patrick Stewart, in the town a few years post the closing of the Experience attraction. Nice to know they are still doing that big convention there.
Patrick Stewart played Captain Picard of the Enterprise D on a new series called The Next Generation from 1987 to 2002. Oddly though the interview with some of his cast is sparse and even Jonathan Frakes who played his first officer, Riker, isn't given a credit but he is interviewed.
Avery Brooks played Captain Ben Sisko of edgy station Deep Space Nine from 1993 to 1999, a different toned fan favorite series.
Kate Mulgrew played the first official female captain, as an on screen movie cameo one didn't count in 1986 in the film Star Trek IV. She commanded Voyager in another part of the galaxy. Voyager ran from 1995 to 2001.
Scott Bacula played not just in Quantum Leap but in Enterprise, the prequel to the original series, from 2001 to 2005 and is the second commander to have his show cancelled. Shanter's had been first, but it came back and made movies.
Chris Pine, who plays Captain Kirk in the reimagined prequel to Kirk's story, set a dozen years before the 5 year mission, was in the 2009 movie (and will be in the sequel), although Shatner apparently didn't see any footage from it. He did see Unstoppable which starred Pine.
Shatner has a lot of fun trying to play jazz with a very spaced out Brooks, since both were captains that got killed off on a show, and it was fun to pretend they were in the afterlife.
Then he has fun with Chris Pine arm wrestling and talking about his movies.
He also enjoys pretending to be a 'captain inside' a box in New York, to Mulgrew and then both discuss the theater, where she has apparently been spending her time since Voyager ended.
Sr. Patrick Stewart and Shatner talk about how working hard on Star Trek ruined their marriages, and also this is something Mulgrew did too, but not so much Brooks. It is one of the more poigniant moments in the drama. Acting is hard. It is not easy to be on TV for 12 to 16 hours a day.
Scott Bacula tended to be more relaxed in his interview session and talked of the craft also and great people he worked with.
Chris Pine is too new to the thing to really know where he has been going in terms of an interview.
Shatner kisses up to the ladies of Trek at the convention also and does a few touching scenes with a severely disabled young male fan.
The documentary though is very Shatner, if you like that, and he is very full of himself. It is funny when Mulgrew pulls him down to Earth a few times and Stewart also pines for the camera and pulls him back a bit too.
This was probably meant to have come out for the 40th year but Paramount was sitting on its hands about the making of that new movie.
Star Trek lives! Shatner's head is bigger than ever. Ha.
Review by Adam Browne
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Review: "Source Code" is confounded thriller mess
Review: "Source Code" PG 13
A strange train ride begins as a man seems to be moving through space and time, eight minutes from being blown up in a terrorist attack. He is transported to a strange control area where he is in a darkened room and a creepy lady and a bearded dude are sending him back into other 'realities' to stop a disaster which will lead to an even bigger one. Think '12 Monkeys' meets 'Quantum Leap' meets 'Groundhog Day' and several other 'memory is another reality, time travel' deals. But is it really time travel? It seems the hero is actually a computer program created from the mind of a copter pilot on life support. How the government created a time machine just for this person isn't known, and how it ends up is confusing. If you could stop the destruction from happening, could you? It is also similar to 'Millennium' from back in the 1990s, except that was on a plane. The source code is evidently some kind of computer memory cache. Not sure how anyone presently could create that, and could tap into the human brain and get memories out.Okay, science fictiion thriller doesn';t have to make sense. Kind of worth a DVD rental if you want to be confused and ask questions afterward, but you won't really get an answer. Not sure if the realities were really other dimensions. Seemed a bit like Lost. Ha.
Review by Adam Browne
A strange train ride begins as a man seems to be moving through space and time, eight minutes from being blown up in a terrorist attack. He is transported to a strange control area where he is in a darkened room and a creepy lady and a bearded dude are sending him back into other 'realities' to stop a disaster which will lead to an even bigger one. Think '12 Monkeys' meets 'Quantum Leap' meets 'Groundhog Day' and several other 'memory is another reality, time travel' deals. But is it really time travel? It seems the hero is actually a computer program created from the mind of a copter pilot on life support. How the government created a time machine just for this person isn't known, and how it ends up is confusing. If you could stop the destruction from happening, could you? It is also similar to 'Millennium' from back in the 1990s, except that was on a plane. The source code is evidently some kind of computer memory cache. Not sure how anyone presently could create that, and could tap into the human brain and get memories out.Okay, science fictiion thriller doesn';t have to make sense. Kind of worth a DVD rental if you want to be confused and ask questions afterward, but you won't really get an answer. Not sure if the realities were really other dimensions. Seemed a bit like Lost. Ha.
Review by Adam Browne
Review: "The Expendables 2" is big dumb action sequel
Review: "The Expendables 2" R
Stallone, Statham, Norris and Schwarzenegger star among others in the action sequel to the cheesy Expendables. This time they take on former Russians who have discovered a plutonium cache in a mine, and they have to get to it before the evil leader uses the stuff to sell to the highest bidder. The story is taken out of any number of 1980s cold war Rambo type movies, and the old action stars have fun playing parodies of each other. Willis and Schwarzenegger have bigger roles and Norris comes along for the ride. Li though is only there for 5 minutes in the beginning. Some of the guys from the last one are gone. The main bad guy's name sounds like Villain. Cute. If they keep doing this, they're going to be the geriatric A team. Still the jokes and the pacing work better than in the first, and it's actually a little better story. They realize they're in a campy action picture and seem to enjoy it. The post cold war Russian fake US town was clever and there were some good gags despite it being incredibly inane and more impossible than Mission Impossible. Also there is plenty of fake blood and gore for horror fans. It might make a good cheap bargain rental when it comes out on DVD. Don't spend full prince in a movie theater unless you just love to do that.
Review by Adam Browne
Stallone, Statham, Norris and Schwarzenegger star among others in the action sequel to the cheesy Expendables. This time they take on former Russians who have discovered a plutonium cache in a mine, and they have to get to it before the evil leader uses the stuff to sell to the highest bidder. The story is taken out of any number of 1980s cold war Rambo type movies, and the old action stars have fun playing parodies of each other. Willis and Schwarzenegger have bigger roles and Norris comes along for the ride. Li though is only there for 5 minutes in the beginning. Some of the guys from the last one are gone. The main bad guy's name sounds like Villain. Cute. If they keep doing this, they're going to be the geriatric A team. Still the jokes and the pacing work better than in the first, and it's actually a little better story. They realize they're in a campy action picture and seem to enjoy it. The post cold war Russian fake US town was clever and there were some good gags despite it being incredibly inane and more impossible than Mission Impossible. Also there is plenty of fake blood and gore for horror fans. It might make a good cheap bargain rental when it comes out on DVD. Don't spend full prince in a movie theater unless you just love to do that.
Review by Adam Browne
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Review: "I Am Number 4" will make you feel like number 2
"I Am Number 4" PG 13
Based on the Legacies saga of teen books, the story of the Lorians and their enemies seems a cross between Starman, Stargate, X Files and Twilight. The movie stars the brawny dude from Beastly, (not reviewed), who is 'Number 4" an alien from a planet of fog monsters that can turn into people, but when you kill them they sparkle and fall apart into vapors. Apparently some others of his 'clan' have been killed and this blonde alien (who could be one of the Garde, the Lorien 'children), ), and these bald aliens are after him. He decides to go with his guardian, another alien, to live in a small town and attend high school, which is hardly the place for an alien to be low profile. In some weird way it makes sense if you're 14 when you wrote this script. Maybe the writers were, or recalled a similar story, like Starman. Imitation being a form of flattery, could an angst filled teen version of Starman work? It could if you play it for laughs. They did not. (Starman was the story of a vapory alien who assumes human form to learn about humanity. It was both a movie and a short run TV series. He has powers that makes his hands and body glow. He can make power come out, has mega intelligence and strength, etc, alien stuff). Brooding and serious 'teen' alien is misunderstood and befriends the ex girlfriend cheerleader of the school jock, fights the jock later, exposes his powers, and the alien bounty hunters pick up his scent. One would think if there are only 9 of them and 3 are dead these Lorians wouldn't be so blatant using their powers. Even the guardian warns him of this to no avail. His little dog is also something special too, but it's only relevant in the end. The big showdown with the Megadarians (yes, that's their name, big door aliens), will be in the high school after hours, with bungling cops, alien bounty hunters, and a nod to Blade, (hey why not rip off Blade, right), and a finish which leads to the sequels presented in the book series. Problem is the characters are so unlikeable you don't care if they live or die. The alien Number 4 guy is so obviously brooding and over acted that he is so annoying you almost root for the bounty hunters. The appeal is in that it plays like a rejected superhero plot from Marvel's Avengers, which could have been fun if it had been campy, not serious. Problem is it was too serious.Ther hero's power seem to be mega strength from his glowing flashlight beam hands, sort of like Superman and Iron Man, and a little of the guy from Heroes. In fact, it's a lot like Heroes. Also why would the bad guys kill them in sequential order and give them numbers? All the heroes would have to do is switch numbers and lead to total confusion for the enemies! And if they can't, why not? If they turn into vapor when they die, what's to prevent them from simply solidifying again somewhere else? Do they melt often? Why is an alien teenager (who is likely 25 with a body like that), even remotely acting like a human teenager? Does he have to act like the vampire from Twilight? (It isn't him). He book series is probably better. (Haven't read it). The Megadorian hunters act like stock villains and give no motivation for trying to off the good aliens. It seems they're just doing it because they're evil, which the guardian actually said at one point. And that guardian kind of sucked, as you'd think he would demand the younger alien keep moving, not going to school, because he's on the lam and those things can track him if he accidentally uses his hand flashlights or mega powers. Chalk it up to high fantasy but there should at least be some likeable moments in this.
Review by Adam Browne
Based on the Legacies saga of teen books, the story of the Lorians and their enemies seems a cross between Starman, Stargate, X Files and Twilight. The movie stars the brawny dude from Beastly, (not reviewed), who is 'Number 4" an alien from a planet of fog monsters that can turn into people, but when you kill them they sparkle and fall apart into vapors. Apparently some others of his 'clan' have been killed and this blonde alien (who could be one of the Garde, the Lorien 'children), ), and these bald aliens are after him. He decides to go with his guardian, another alien, to live in a small town and attend high school, which is hardly the place for an alien to be low profile. In some weird way it makes sense if you're 14 when you wrote this script. Maybe the writers were, or recalled a similar story, like Starman. Imitation being a form of flattery, could an angst filled teen version of Starman work? It could if you play it for laughs. They did not. (Starman was the story of a vapory alien who assumes human form to learn about humanity. It was both a movie and a short run TV series. He has powers that makes his hands and body glow. He can make power come out, has mega intelligence and strength, etc, alien stuff). Brooding and serious 'teen' alien is misunderstood and befriends the ex girlfriend cheerleader of the school jock, fights the jock later, exposes his powers, and the alien bounty hunters pick up his scent. One would think if there are only 9 of them and 3 are dead these Lorians wouldn't be so blatant using their powers. Even the guardian warns him of this to no avail. His little dog is also something special too, but it's only relevant in the end. The big showdown with the Megadarians (yes, that's their name, big door aliens), will be in the high school after hours, with bungling cops, alien bounty hunters, and a nod to Blade, (hey why not rip off Blade, right), and a finish which leads to the sequels presented in the book series. Problem is the characters are so unlikeable you don't care if they live or die. The alien Number 4 guy is so obviously brooding and over acted that he is so annoying you almost root for the bounty hunters. The appeal is in that it plays like a rejected superhero plot from Marvel's Avengers, which could have been fun if it had been campy, not serious. Problem is it was too serious.Ther hero's power seem to be mega strength from his glowing flashlight beam hands, sort of like Superman and Iron Man, and a little of the guy from Heroes. In fact, it's a lot like Heroes. Also why would the bad guys kill them in sequential order and give them numbers? All the heroes would have to do is switch numbers and lead to total confusion for the enemies! And if they can't, why not? If they turn into vapor when they die, what's to prevent them from simply solidifying again somewhere else? Do they melt often? Why is an alien teenager (who is likely 25 with a body like that), even remotely acting like a human teenager? Does he have to act like the vampire from Twilight? (It isn't him). He book series is probably better. (Haven't read it). The Megadorian hunters act like stock villains and give no motivation for trying to off the good aliens. It seems they're just doing it because they're evil, which the guardian actually said at one point. And that guardian kind of sucked, as you'd think he would demand the younger alien keep moving, not going to school, because he's on the lam and those things can track him if he accidentally uses his hand flashlights or mega powers. Chalk it up to high fantasy but there should at least be some likeable moments in this.
Review by Adam Browne
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Review: "Total Recall" is 2012 remake and 'virtually' unnecessary
"Total Recall" (2012) PG 13
Len Wiseman of the Underworld saga tackles the Philip K. Dick story, 'We can Remember it for you Wholesale', claiming his is truer to the short story than the original done 22 years ago. Well it isn't, as it doesn't have Mars in it, and it is in that Quaid is now less burly and more like just a working stiff, as in the story. Comparisons to the original will persist for a long time, but both are unique in that they tackle a dystopia and virtual reality differently, as now we are so used to these kinds of stories. Since then, cyberpunk has become a term in the lexicon, movies like 'Inception' and 'The Matrix' are well known extensions of the ideas Dick and William Gibson and the greats thought of long ago.
Colin Farrell is an action hero of this generation, and his lackey turned super spy character has been seen before. The idea has become so commonplace that one might think, of 'Jason Borne' (Damon) before they think 'James Bond' (Craig) who proceeded the concept in their films. The movie has the same basic premise as the 1990 version, it is a future where humanity is dystopian in a post nuclear war, meaning life stinks, and there are two places on Earth left, and to get to and from them they must enter a gravity elevator called the Fall. The oddball premise of something going through the mantle of a planet, where it is molten, is impossible. Now that would be interesting. It does beg another question, if this society is so advanced as to build an indestructible tunnel through the planet, they could easily have restored the toxic atmosphere too. Right?
An evil dictator in the guise of the leader of the Commonwealth (post war Europe circa 2084) wants to wipe out the Colony (Australia). Think 28 Days Later meets Blade Runner (also based on Philip Dick story) and 'Inception' and 'Borne Identity'. Is it a better story than the original? No because there is nothing original about the story, although this may be a conceit as now we're so used to this in movies. Big dumb action space fantasy has become cliche. Quaid's character is a robot builder, similar to the guy in 'I Robot', another dumb action flick, and he longs to do something more, so he goes to ReKall and is about to be jacked into the virtual memory game, only to discover he already is a super spy and nothing it what it seems. The action moves fast, so that the thin plot can be hidden, (much like in Underworld) and despite the cast saying it's not a remake, it is. It also is kind of a sequel. The evil leader wants to destroy the colony but the alleged evil colonist leader wants to destroy the Fall, the neat but impossible gravity elevator. The actioner 'The Core' comes to mind, as well as the trans-Atlantic subway movie 'Daylight'? from some years ago. But given it could be a dream too. Maybe all of the movie is just in Arnie's head? It doesn't have thje snarky appeal of the first, or the memorable lines, so it's not going to be a cult classic.
Len Wiseman of the Underworld saga tackles the Philip K. Dick story, 'We can Remember it for you Wholesale', claiming his is truer to the short story than the original done 22 years ago. Well it isn't, as it doesn't have Mars in it, and it is in that Quaid is now less burly and more like just a working stiff, as in the story. Comparisons to the original will persist for a long time, but both are unique in that they tackle a dystopia and virtual reality differently, as now we are so used to these kinds of stories. Since then, cyberpunk has become a term in the lexicon, movies like 'Inception' and 'The Matrix' are well known extensions of the ideas Dick and William Gibson and the greats thought of long ago.
Colin Farrell is an action hero of this generation, and his lackey turned super spy character has been seen before. The idea has become so commonplace that one might think, of 'Jason Borne' (Damon) before they think 'James Bond' (Craig) who proceeded the concept in their films. The movie has the same basic premise as the 1990 version, it is a future where humanity is dystopian in a post nuclear war, meaning life stinks, and there are two places on Earth left, and to get to and from them they must enter a gravity elevator called the Fall. The oddball premise of something going through the mantle of a planet, where it is molten, is impossible. Now that would be interesting. It does beg another question, if this society is so advanced as to build an indestructible tunnel through the planet, they could easily have restored the toxic atmosphere too. Right?
An evil dictator in the guise of the leader of the Commonwealth (post war Europe circa 2084) wants to wipe out the Colony (Australia). Think 28 Days Later meets Blade Runner (also based on Philip Dick story) and 'Inception' and 'Borne Identity'. Is it a better story than the original? No because there is nothing original about the story, although this may be a conceit as now we're so used to this in movies. Big dumb action space fantasy has become cliche. Quaid's character is a robot builder, similar to the guy in 'I Robot', another dumb action flick, and he longs to do something more, so he goes to ReKall and is about to be jacked into the virtual memory game, only to discover he already is a super spy and nothing it what it seems. The action moves fast, so that the thin plot can be hidden, (much like in Underworld) and despite the cast saying it's not a remake, it is. It also is kind of a sequel. The evil leader wants to destroy the colony but the alleged evil colonist leader wants to destroy the Fall, the neat but impossible gravity elevator. The actioner 'The Core' comes to mind, as well as the trans-Atlantic subway movie 'Daylight'? from some years ago. But given it could be a dream too. Maybe all of the movie is just in Arnie's head? It doesn't have thje snarky appeal of the first, or the memorable lines, so it's not going to be a cult classic.
Review: "Total Recall" the 1990 original is high camp actioner
"Total Recall" R
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Quaid, a man from the future who lives in a dystopia of sedentary work life, but when he is given the chance to live false memories in a virtual reality game, things go terribly wrong, and he actually imagines himself a spy, Hauser, who is off to Mars to stop the evil leader of the planet. Based upon Philip K. Dick's short story, 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale', the story tells of a virtual world before the term was coined. Dick also wrote 'Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep' the story that Blade Runner is loosely based on. But here director Paul Verhoven is on a different planet in terms of story, and Arnie plays it as his typical smart ass wise cracking self. The movie is incredibly dumb. Over the years it has become a cult classic popcorn flick played at bored overnight gatherings, but back in 1990 it was pretty dreadful. Forgive the bad science, such as the gravity seems Earth normal on Mars, and alien air can make you instantly not die when you go out on the surface, and how did they get that huge ball thing up his nose, and the like. It is more a fantasy than a science fiction thriller. The catch phrases from this have entered our language, such as 'Get your ass to Mars' and 'It's an air maker' and the three breasted chick line, 'for this you need 3 hands'. Even so, the movie is actually tepid. The only way any of it would work is if it's all a dream in his head.
Review by Adam Browne
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Quaid, a man from the future who lives in a dystopia of sedentary work life, but when he is given the chance to live false memories in a virtual reality game, things go terribly wrong, and he actually imagines himself a spy, Hauser, who is off to Mars to stop the evil leader of the planet. Based upon Philip K. Dick's short story, 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale', the story tells of a virtual world before the term was coined. Dick also wrote 'Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep' the story that Blade Runner is loosely based on. But here director Paul Verhoven is on a different planet in terms of story, and Arnie plays it as his typical smart ass wise cracking self. The movie is incredibly dumb. Over the years it has become a cult classic popcorn flick played at bored overnight gatherings, but back in 1990 it was pretty dreadful. Forgive the bad science, such as the gravity seems Earth normal on Mars, and alien air can make you instantly not die when you go out on the surface, and how did they get that huge ball thing up his nose, and the like. It is more a fantasy than a science fiction thriller. The catch phrases from this have entered our language, such as 'Get your ass to Mars' and 'It's an air maker' and the three breasted chick line, 'for this you need 3 hands'. Even so, the movie is actually tepid. The only way any of it would work is if it's all a dream in his head.
Review by Adam Browne
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