Rocketman
by Stuart Gillard
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Actor: Beau Bridges, Blake Boyd, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jessica Lundy, Peter OnoratiDirector: Stuart Gillard
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
Published: 2005
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-17
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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- Blast off for outrageously funny space travel in this screwball comedy that spins wildly out of control all the way to Mars! Though he's a whiz with computers, accident-prone astro-nut Fred Randall (comedian Harland Williams - "Dumb And Dumber") is the last guy on Earth you'd want on the first manned mission to Mars. But as bad luck and poor timing would have it, that's exactly
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DVD Review: "It Wasn't Me!" (who cut this film)
Summary: 4 Stars
There are some movies you could show the most humourless person on earth and if they don't laugh at it then they're beyond saving. "Rocketman" is such a film. Before I saw this movie, I never really knew that comedy could be so wacky yet so endearing and impossibly hilarious, all at the same time. The incomparable Harland Williams stars as highly eccentric computer-genius Fred Randall, who becomes the last-minute choice of a third crew member on the first mission to Mars. From before the training to the mission itself, Fred manages to turn both NASA and Mars upside down with his hilarious, but always innocent, escapades. Accompanied by his three partners - cocky commander William Overbeck, no-nonsense scientist Julie Ford and pranky chip Ulysses - Fred's adventure to Mars still leaves me in stitches. And this is coming from a man who's seen this movie many times.
You won't find humour like this elsewhere, really. As Beau Bridges in the role of Bud Nesbitt rightly states, Fred is both a complete genius and a total fool. When Fred manages to keep his mouth shut (which isn't often), you might find him flying through the corridors of NASA on a runaway chair or conducting a worldwide chorus of "He's got the Whole World in his Hands". There's lots of stuff to make you gasp of breath for laughter, and I hate stupid humour - but Rocketman's humour, however wacky and often ridiculous, somehow (don't ask me how) manages to keep its integrity. There is also a lot of clever stuff for the less slapstick-loving viewers.
However, the release of this DVD is another one where Disney makes the stupid decision to cut for no apparent reason. The very first scene of the movie, where Fred attempts his own 'landing' as a kid, is all-but cut, making it completely pointless and, what's worse, ruining the mirroring words of Fred as an adult. I don't understand why this cut was made, and for that, I am detracting a star from the score. However, if you want a movie that just gives you pure laughs, then this is the movie to go (even if it is a little historically incorrect).
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