Thanks for the memories!

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

RocketMan is a family comedy from Disney, which utilizes the world of NASA and space exploration in a well-meaning, but unforgivably obnoxious farce. It stars Harland Williams as the world's goofiest spacecraft designer, Fred Z. Randall, who, after a series of inadvertent tests of his resilience, gets the nod to accompany astronauts Julie Ford (Jessica Lundy) and "Wild Bill" Overbeck (William Sadler) on the first manned mission to Mars. It's on this bare-bones plot that RocketMan hangs its gags. There is nothing to the story here, but still, it is arguably the best (read -- least bad) thing about this broken family comedy. The NASA setting and story tropes are passably distracting in the sense that they give you something to look at besides Harland Williams' bumbling clown act, but that is hardly a compliment.RocketMan spends most of its time with Harland Williams as he does everything he can to squeeze any kind of laugh out of the audience, and it just doesn't work. Fred Z. Randall is a doofus to the 100th power. He flails, he screams, he makes funny faces, etc., etc., etc, but between Harland Williams' grating voice and mannerisms and the absolutely bankrupt writing, the comedy here is dead on arrival. I can't stress how terrible the script of RocketMan is. I refuse to believe that adults wrote this movie. There is not one ounce of wit in this movie. The jokes that are coherent are exclusively surface level potty humor, and worse yet, there are so many jokes that don't make any sense at all. For example, there is a long gag where Fred leads a sing-along of "I've Got the Whole World in my Hands". The big question is...Why?!? It's not funny, it's not sweet, it's not heartwarming, but it sits up there on the screen forever. It's moments of inexplicable confusion like these that convince me that this movie must have been written by some alien intelligence that recognizes the characteristics of comedy, but has no idea how to create it.What a strange film this Rocketman is. It's bad, but in a way that is genuinely bizarre. I can't believe that this is a real Hollywood movie made by functioning adults, much less a Disney product. If you can try to imagine what a dumber-than-average three year-old might do with a mid-budget family comedy, lower your expectations 20%, and you end up with something approaching the monumental awfulness of RocketMan. I suppose I have nothing against Harland Williams, but his dopey schtick here is beyond obnoxious. His stupid catchphrase "It wasn't me" appears no less than 50 times throughout the movie, and it accounts for not one smirk. RocketMan isn't hurting anybody, but it crosses the level of unfunny, into the realm of total embarrassment. I can almost hear what everybody involved with this disaster must be thinking... "It wasn't me".09/100

Fred Z. Randall (Harland Williams) is a wacky annoying computer geek who has programmed the spaceship to Mars. The flight crew comes to complain about a flaw but crew member Gary Hackman is shown to be incompetent and he's injured in the process. As a last resort, mission director Paul Wick suggests replacing Hackman with Randall. 'Wild Bill' Overbeck is the crew leader. Mission specialist Julie Ford disapproves. Randall starts training at NASA with a chimp. Bud Nesbitt is nominally blamed for Apollo 13.The premise is stupid. Harland borders between annoying and somewhat likable. Most of the jokes don't work. It could be a lot worst. Harland has his moments. Most importantly, he's not mean-spirited. He does a lot of slapstick. The problem is that he can't help himself. I think he needs a partner to give him balance and go to the next level. Comedy is subjective and this would probably work better for some people.

Rocket Man (1997): Dir: Stuart Gillard / Cast: Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, Beau Bridges, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn: Pitiful piece of nothing that seems to test the limits of low quality filmmaking. It regards reaching your dreams as Harland Williams receives opportunity to launch into space. It is really that simple. We know that Williams will make a big name for himself in space while families sucker out the bucks so that their children can witness the crap. Stuart Gillard's directing is awful and I have seen better art out of lego than the production values featured here. Williams gets to act like a mindless idiot throughout the entire film. We have seen his situation in countless films where the little guy must prove himself. Well, he fails to prove anything other than he has too much time on his hands. Jessica Lundy is featured as the love interest who must be proud to be caught on camera with a moron astronaut. Also featured much to their regret are Beau Bridges and William Sadler, and one wonders if they will regret it later or laugh it off as a bad joke. Either way it is a big bad rocket blast fart that will stench up their resumes until something decent comes up to distract from it. Somebody should flush thus idiotic excuse for a family film down a toilet. Advertisements claim that "He's just taking up space." A garbage bin has lots of room for trash like Rocket Man. Score: 1 / 10

Hilarious. I've always felt that 'Rocketman' was one of Disney's best and most under-appreciated live-action films of the last thirty years. It has so many elements of the traditional formula that makes it so Disney, as a die-hard fan, I find it hard to resist.This film is a homage to so much of what Disney loved. It really is a reference to the innovative 'Man in Space' series from the 1950's 'Wonderful World of Disney', and from movies like Disney's 60's comedy 'Moon Pilot'. Not to mention the references to Pinocchio.Harland Williams is not exactly the type of comedian you would expect to see in a family comedy, but then again, neither is Eddie Murphy or even, say Buddy Hackett, for that matter. All of those comics have a pretty raunchy sense of humour outside of their Disney films. I've seen William's stand up humour outside of 'Rocketman', and it is pretty vulgar and college. In this Disney film it is completely wholesome and harmless with perhaps the exception of a scene that features drunkenness.The only thing that may possibly offend is the reference to evolution at the expense of Michelangelo and the Vatican ceiling. But hey. Disney himself was a devout Christian who didn't bother to question science. Very few people did in the 50's. Ever been to a Disney park and seen the different stages of man in evolution? I have. Seen 'Spaceship Earth'? I have. Need I go on? I bet you wish I wouldn't. Look it's not our fault yall wanna start all over again.This might just well prove to be the funniest if not the most controversial film experience of the twentieth century next to '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Anyway you feel on the subject of evolution, this film will blow your roof and rocket you to Mars and beyond.