erikacunanan29
MORE REVIEWS AT booksequalhappiness.blogspot.comMy boyfriend made me watch this and I really loved it. Even though it is an old movie, this is the first time that I watched it. It was so fun. Fred's quirkiness made me laugh out loud so many times. He was obnoxious at times but he was also endearing. I enjoyed how ignorant he was to what he was doing and he just wanted to be himself. He was weird in a fun way and I loved seeing him fulfill his dreams.
eragonbookfan
FUNNIER than "Dumb and Dumber", "Ace Ventura", "Airplane!", "Dr. Strangelove", or "Spaceballs"...OR even "Manhattan", "Wolf of Wall Street" ,"The Sandlot," "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?","The Cable Guy", "Me, Myself, & Irene", "Christmas Vacation", "A Christmas Story", "Wayne's World," "The Big Lebowski", "Gremlins", or "American Pie".I just wish all the hype towards these overrated & nonsensical comedic films could be re-directed at this movie!!! I may have laughed more at this than any other film in history! In my view, Harland Williams is funnier & HECK of a lot more talented with improvisation & funny faces than Jim Carrey - actually may be the funniest comedic actor out there! Jim Carrey's overrated, Williams is underrated. And one big advantage Williams has over Carrey is that he can actually PLAY characters; Jim Carrey is always just Jim Carrey.I feel PRIVILEGED to have grown-up with this flick (which was shown to me by some friends), because it's got great laughs, funny humor, *appropriate* humor, great slapstick, and it's a film that the whole family can all-round enjoy!So many funny & re-quotable lines! Each just makes me smile. x) "Sweet swirling onion rings!" "Sweet Alaskan Asparagus tips!" "'Fun' is my Chinese neighbor's middle name." "Hurry, Commander! Call me mommy now!"And I love Jessica Lundy's character - better than "The Stupids"; she's quite smart, pretty, & quite likable all the same time, too. Glad she got to do the "When You Wish Upon A Star" song dance with Harland at the end.Plus, it even has big name actors William Sadler and Jeffery DeMunn in it!! (Guess the director was a big "Shawshank Redemption" fan. lulz)Comedian Harland Williams plays a computer rocket genius named Fred Z. Randall, and one day his luck changes when he's offered the position of a third astronaut on a Space Shuttle Mission to Mars! IMO, that's a HECK of a lot more interesting than any of the overrated dumb 'comedy' films.When on Mars, the comedy doesn't stop there!In the end, this film doesn't treat you like an idiot, our main protagonist actually "matures" (unlike other dumb character), it had humor that WORKED, this film has EFFORT, and really convincing landscape for Mars.PS: This film ought to switch its "5.9" rating around with Dr. Strangelove's "8.5", or with "Dumb & Dumber"'s "7.3" - I'm serious, it's THAT good!Hey, it's frickin' Disney! Even Siskel and Ebert liked this film. Check it out!9/10
MartianOctocretr5
Slapstick run amok is about the closest that human speech can come to describing this movie. As it careens in random directions, you scratch your head trying to figure out what's going on, and wondering if you missed something. It's worth a laugh, at least on the level of laughing at how amateurish and childish it is.The Pee Wee Herman look-alike act-alike screaming with that exaggerated shrill voice at cover-the-ears intensity reaches the pain threshold at times. His acting is fine, but the director has him going over the top way too often. At anything. Every scene.Here's the deal: a bumbling but gifted computer geek gets tapped to be on the first manned landing on Mars. Don't ask. With two other people and a chimp (no, really). The chimp mugs, and so does quasi-Pee-Wee. When he's not screeching that is. Pee Wee from the Mars lander gets the whole world to sing campfire songs: I'm surprised somebody didn't just shoot him down. More goofy stuff happens on the voyage, each joke dumber than the last.The likable cast makes the most of the low-brow material. This one's only popcorn filler stuff, though.
Threque
Most every bad comment I've read on here is from people who watch WAY too many movies. Let's think about the movie for a second, shall we? It was made in 1997--that's before Windows 98 even came out, so of course the special effects are going to be lacking. And secondly, it's not an obscenely extreme comedy like you see today, like Talladega Nights, now THAT movie was just plain ridiculous. This has a lot of innocent light comedy that the main actor delivers beautifully, hence why it is a Disney movie. So, for all of you who thought Saw III was actually a movie, or even a good one, I think you need to join the army and head out to the front lines...you know, make yourself useful for a change.
