Space Cadet
Space Cadet
Space Cadet, a surprisingly appealing Fourth of July comedy by Amazon, revives an old plot formula that has proven effective in the past. This is hardly an original concept, having already been successfully portrayed by actresses Goldie Hawn in Private Benjamin and Protocol, Melanie Griffith in Working Girl and Born Yesterday, and Reese Witherspoon in Legally blonde among others; a story which involves an average blonde woman excelling in a man-dominated field simply through raw determination. The trope is a classic against-all-odds story arc that audiences root for, and it perfectly fits the image of an actor who has probably been underestimated by critics throughout her career.
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There is a mission to accomplish for both the character and the actor, and if it is well done, the audience can feel that the character wants it and the outcome will be a victory. In her dull and poorly stitched together creation, writer-director Liz W Garcia has an image problem in that audience members will struggle with the discomfort of seeing and tasting anything in her movie. And so it goes, another disposable and terrible category filler that makes you question how many streaming subscriptions you have, what a twangy plastic dreary echo of film has a huge saturation in modern times.
Although Netflix is credited for popularizing romance and female-centric comedies, it can sometimes feel like a superficial success as these genres have struggled to find an audience for many years. Some of its more recent additions are generic pictures of generic characters and are instead a lazy cash-grab that isn’t even close to the more high-budgeted films they imitate. Space cadet does not do any better, offering obnoxious lighting and cheap backgrounds, which is especially disappointing when the audience expects these to be off-set by something else. For example, A Family Affair is made even more unattractive by the concept of Kidman’s character falling for Efron’s character, but the humor of the actors and the story enable it to get through. In this case, it is as bad as most of the others, and there seem to be no redeeming factors.
Emma Roberts is no stranger to a boarding school. When she was 16, she also portrayed the role of an American Wild Child in a British boarding school. Here the path of self-discovery includes a never met California bar-tennis as Rex, raised in a Hollywood beach in the ’90s and dancing the nights away with BFF Nadine, Poppy Liu, from the show Hacks. The plot sees her transitioning from being a bartender in Florida to being a hopeful astronaut in NASA. Years ago, Rex got into Georgia Tech, but she was forced to withdraw when her mother fell ill. It’s Nadine’s aerospace application that gets some glitter and lands her a job she loves, but is completely unqualified for.
The film is set in an entirely ridiculous universe in which audiences are free to hope that there exists an iota of rationale in a square root of a range of questions raised during the viewing. It’s not meant to be serious, supporters would assert – fine – but still, even in such heightened territory, there ought to be some sense of order and there is just no way Garcia’s script is smart or slick to allow us all to be quite as adjusted to this altered reality. Wouldn’t anyone bother to check whether she actually was the Pulitzer Prize winner? And I presume references would be got well after she’d been engaged? Yes, just a one-time Georgia Tech enthusiast, let’s say, would come in such dresses on her first day! The flipside is that Rex’s rise is not only quite ridiculous but crucially un-engaging – we really do not care whether she goes to outer space or not – and Roberts, at ease and efficient in this area although not quite positively so, fails to raise her character from that of a network sitcom type.
Even the uplifting narrative of a woman succeeding in the patriarchal Stem universe quite evidently fails to salvage us from a sea of excruciatingly bland and unhumorous dialogues, pedestrian performances, and a crippling, film- ruining deficit of charisma. Space Cadet and other similar movies are supposed to be elegant and easy to digest as Rex makes different sweet cocktails, and this one, unfortunately, is a humiliating disaster that is heavy and leaves a sour aftertaste.
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- Genre: Comedy, Romance
- Country: United States
- Director: Liz W. Garcia
- Cast: Emma Roberts, Tom Hopper, Poppy Liu
