Rex, a Florida party girl, turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumés, but don't have her smarts, heart, and moxie.
Space Cadet is directed by Liz W. Garcia who previously directed The Lifeguard (2013) and One Precent More Humid (2017).
Every now and then during the year you get those handful of movies that come out and are universally mocked online or in general such as Madame Web, Unfrosted, Nightswim or Atlas. Well Space Cadet is one of those movies and it's not hard to see why.
For starters this entire movie really seems like it was originally supposed to be a Disney Channel original movie but somehow adults got casted instead of kids and Amazon decided to release it. Second this movie is a Legally Blonde (2001) wannabe it tries to capture what made the movie so likable but fails miserably. It's as if you took out all the personality, likability or fun that Legally Blonde (2001) had and you get this movie.
The performances are not good here including Emma Roberts which is just another addition to her long line of terrible performances from the last several years. The movie doesn't even bother to tell an interesting story as you can already guess what happens within the first 10 minutes, the movie tries to have emotional depth towards the end with Rex's deceased mother but completely forgets to make the viewer actually care about Rex (played by Emma Roberts). She's about as interesting as a terrible Disney channel movie main character and often times really feels like she was supposed to be one when you look at the writing.
There's maybe one or two enjoyable moments in this movie them being Emma Roberts wrestling an Alligator and making a girl fall off a treadmill by singing Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. Is that exactly funny? Not really, is it far more entertaining than anything else in this disaster? Absolutely which is probably the reason why it gave me a laugh, which kind of shows the exact problem with this movie. It has to rely completely random events to get some semblance of a good moment.
I really got nothing else to say here, Space Cadet is exactly what you think it's going to be. A movie that uses the whole "follow your dreams" type of plot but doesn't do anything meaningful or interesting with it. You are better off watching a bad Disney Channel movie.
Space Cadet is available on Amazon Prime Video.
1/10 F
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