RocketMan . Tucson Weekly . 10-20-97

RocketMan

DIRECTED BY: Stuart Gillard

REVIEWED: 10-20-97

You may remember Harland Williams from Dumb & Dumber, as the highway patrolman who unwittingly drank a beer bottle filled with urine. That scene pretty much sums up all of Rocket Man, which is essentially a big-budget excuse for fart jokes in space. Williams, who looks like a runty Kevin Costner and is about as funny, plays a goofy computer-programming nerd who, at the last minute, is enlisted to be the third man on a NASA expedition to Mars. His oblivious idiocy turns out to be one of his strengths, somehow, and he manages both to make a fool out of his egotistical male shipmate and to woo the female one with childlike affection and low-voiced renditions of "When You Wish Upon A Star." It's sort of Oedipal, really; too bad it isn't also fun.

--Woodruff

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