Late to the party on this. But compelled to review anyway.
Laughable in parts with poor science and extremely corny dialogue.
A nice idea, with some good acting but just too threadbare on momentum.
Three dudes in the boot of a car for two hours with little else going on except them "bonding" over their failures.
At least they all get the same hats in the end.
The race to the observatory that serves as the movies big finale is plain daft.
Efforts to make their scientific endeavours plausible spoiled by cliched writing.
Apparently the three scientists are clever enough to build satellites, write software that images in realtime infra-red radio signals and build telescopes with automated tracking but they're not smart enough to hook their equipment to the cars alternator when their batteries start running out, leading to the silly race against the clock to the observatory for a new battery.
Feels like it should have been a short but was dragged out to movie length.
Laughable in parts with poor science and extremely corny dialogue.
A nice idea, with some good acting but just too threadbare on momentum.
Three dudes in the boot of a car for two hours with little else going on except them "bonding" over their failures.
At least they all get the same hats in the end.
The race to the observatory that serves as the movies big finale is plain daft.
Efforts to make their scientific endeavours plausible spoiled by cliched writing.
Apparently the three scientists are clever enough to build satellites, write software that images in realtime infra-red radio signals and build telescopes with automated tracking but they're not smart enough to hook their equipment to the cars alternator when their batteries start running out, leading to the silly race against the clock to the observatory for a new battery.
Feels like it should have been a short but was dragged out to movie length.