When one of the astronauts for NASA's first manned mission to Mars is knocked out of commission, who better to step in than an accident-prone, rubber-faced loon? That's the logic of Disney's RocketMan, and everything else in the movie pretty much follows suit. Manchild Harland Williams plays the loon, and he's considerably less annoying than the film's horrifying commercials would indicate—as is the generally good-natured film itself. Of course, those frenetically paced ads, with their emphasis on Williams' mugging and RocketMan's elaborate fart joke, made it look like a harbinger for a looming apocalypse. So that's faint praise.
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