bkbirge Awesome movie. It's a Disney movie so it's got all the rough edges smoothed down, the level of 'offensive' has been completely focus group polished out of it. The closest we get is one of the movies flattest jokes about flatulence in space. Despite this, it has aged very well and remains one of the absolute best quotable funny movies ever made.This is chiefly due to the charisma of the lead character, a Poindexter computer scientist cum everyman who somehow manages to not only become an astronaut candidate but also ends up on a flight mission to Mars.Parts of this were filmed at Johnson Space Center and for the time is reasonably realistic to the look and work. I've got a friend who was an uncredited extra in this and according to him they used a lot of NASA engineers as extras too. If you like slapstick and absurd comedy it is hard to do better than this, and the bonus is you can watch it with your kids. Highly recommended for fans of off kilter absurdness. There are some low points, such as the pointless (yet still funny) shoehorned romance, and the complete waste of Beau Bridges and William Sadler who both play it straight. This is not an ensemble movie, it is nearly completely driven by the comedy timing and dialog of Harland Williams. This movie desperately needs the full BluRay treatment with commentary from all the principles.

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.

quagland3000 Okay, It's been 12 years since this movie came out. I was 4 when it was released. I first saw it on Disney Channel, and after that...I STILL CANT GET THE IMAGE OF HARLAND SCREAMING IN PAIN WHEN THE CHIMP BITES HIM! Rolling around in that office with the clearly stuffed monkey. In a regular movie this would be seen as cheesy and childish. OH NOT ROCKETMAN SIR, NO NOT THIS. I have seen a lot of Harland Williams movies: his older ones: Dumb and Dumber(C'mon give it here you pumpkin pie haircutted freak!) Half Baked(Oh you like popcorn don't'ya?Makes your teeth go,POPPOPaPOP!) even his creepier but funny uncredited role in Something About Mary (Why do 8 minute abs when there's 6 minute abs?!) Rocketman(Commander are you sure were heading towards planet earth it looks a lot like the sun! Don't question my authority you incompetent fool!AGAAHhhhhhaahahaha..mornin!) And of course Freddy got Fingered (his scream alone is hilarious: AAAAHUeueee!!!AAAAAHueeee!!!HEEEHAhhHEEHAahhAAAAAHuee!!!) Even his newer stuff Employee of the Month and hes got his new sketch movie Child wild But I think Rocketman is him at his best!

Gordon-11 This film is about a silly man who gets to represent America on a space mission to land on Mars.The plot is really silly. The acting is so over the top. The punchline 'It wasn't me" is used to many times that it became so annoying. The jokes are not funny. The worst is that the props looks so fake. It can easily be seen that the space helmets are made of soft plastic. In one scene on Mars, the space helmets don't even have a glass shield on. I am sure the production budget of this film is even less than a typical B movie. I know this movie is aimed at young kids, but that is not an excuse for the movie being bad. This movie is an unfortunate embarrassment to the film studio's collection.