Trip to Mars Movie Funny Movie
Icht schlicken dokken, lug dee lug......
I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard during a movie. Harland Williams is a genius. "C'mon all you Chinese....." Who comes up with this stuff??? I got the feeling that the directors and writers just told Williams to work around the script and improvise whatever he wanted? Some of this stuff is so off the wall, you wonder just how much was scripted. And this is not your typical Jerry Lewis slapstick. Williams has a great deal of pure talent. Anyway watch it and just enjoy the wonderful absurdity that is Rocket Man.
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One of the funniest movies I've ever seen, if not the funniest.
The first time I saw this movie I couldn't stop laughing. I happened to see it again a couple nights ago, and it was the same, only it seemed even funnier. I just ordered it from Amazon, I've got to have this movie available when I need a good laugh. I can understand why some people don't like it, you have to be 10 years old at heart to get it. What I don't understand is why I haven't seen more of Harlen Williams, he was a riot in this movie.
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Put it on loop, and drive yourself loony.
I worked at a Video -rental shop when this movie came out on PAL-VHS, and as we were only allowed to show PG rated films (Sorry I dont know the US rating) Anyway, I slapped this film on to see what it was like. I had trouble serving customers, I was laughing that much! I put the film on loop for my whole 12 hour shift, and nearly drove myself loopy. I sang along to "He holds the whole world..." and later found my self talking to my socks.
I don't work there any more...
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A great Disney movie, ranks up there with "What About Bob"
This movie is incredibly funny. I base a good comedy on how many times it makes you laugh - this movie made me laugh so hard I cried at least 3 times. It throws tons of jokes at you - Harland Williams is great as the computer specialist who gets his dream job of becoming an astronaut -- "what I'll do now is use what we like to call 'The right way" to show you how it's done." There was only one moment where one joke goes on a few seconds too long ("whole world in his hands" bit) - but other than that it a very inventive comedy that will make adults laugh just as much as the kids, maybe more. A surprise gem - one of the funniest flicks I've seen - give it a shot. 9 out of 10.
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Very funny
This movie was very funny. A lot of the humor was very spontaneous and original. I love how he gets everyone to sing "He's got the whole world in his hands" and how he passes the time in the isolation chamber by conducting his own puppet show. Leonard Maltin definitely missed the boat by giving this film a bomb rating; considering that he called this film and Judd Nelson's "From the Hip" a bomb while giving two stars to "Senior Trip", Maltin has given me sufficient reason to take his reviews with a grain of salt.
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'Call me mommy little billy'
This is a great film. It's definately the funniest Disney film i've ever seen, though, while being great slapstick comedy with excellent delivery by Harland Williams, it also gets in the morals & ideals rife in Disney films. This is unique in that it's the only film i know of that i could have watched with 10 yearolds while not being ashamed, and also watch with some buds with a few beers. It's great & unique in that way Harland Williams carries this film, which is understanding as it is a vehicle for him, but the supporting cast is also excellent and the film was great for me. Since there is constant association with the ground team, you don't get the boxed in effect that you find in many travelling films, e.g. Speed, Speed 2 & the film never slows down for me. The best bits to watch for are the machine that spins Williams round & the bitchin' Mr Magoo impression.
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Ha ha ha...BLAST OFF to a FUNNY FILM !!!!!
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Disney's 1997 movie "RocketMan" is a very funny film about space exploration. Here, a boy's dream is to go out to outer space. He spent most of his time looking at the Earth when the father wondered why he should be like most boys, playing football and stuff!!!!! (LOL I remember that) Well, several years later, this man ended up going to NASA and started training for space!!!!! This was hilarious, as evidenced from the isolation chamber scene (he screamed "JOHN JACOB JINGLE" over and over again, scaring the other man to death!!!!!). Finally, this man was selected to go up to Mars and the rest, I will leave hush-hush so that you can see for yourself!!!!!
"RocketMan" may be a forgotten film now, but it's a great one. Watch it; you won't be disappointed!!!!!
10 stars
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Funny! PERIOD.
I pride myself in having good taste in movies. Among my favorites are Raging Bull, On The Waterfront, The English Patient, etc. Normally I hate movies like this. Austin Powers 2 was so bad I wanted to leave. But this movie just makes me laugh.....hard. Sure it has your stereotypical Disney stuff that gets laughs from the little ones, but there are so many clever lines for adults that it really surprised me the first time I saw it. Harland Williams was perfectly cast, I don't think anyone else would have been good as Fred Z. Randall. If you are in for a stupid movie that will make you laugh see RocketMan.
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A true testament to what you can do with a low-budget
It's low-budget, but superbly written and perfectly acted by Harland Willams. From the way he cocks his head at random points, to the greatest impersonations ever, "Commander, are you sure we're heading for Earth it looks an awful lot like the sun..." "Ah, Magoo, You've, Done it again Sir!" and some really great lines "Why don't you just say 'thanks for the cool coin, Bud. It really means a lot to me.'" "Oh sure, thanks for the cool coin Bud it really means- what was the rest?" "Now the French! Pour do, ze de Chanele Number 5!"
This is probably one of, if not the, most overlooked movies of all time. About a thousand times more laughs than recent comedies (Goldmember, Master of Disguise, Mr. Deeds.)
The only real problem was the trailors, which included little funny aside from the (ONE, mind you) fart joke. This made it seem kiddy, but was necessary to not spoil the funny.
Ignore this IMDB rating, and go see this, dare I say? Masterpiece film.
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Such a funny and enjoyable movie.
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My boyfriend made me watch this and I really loved it. Even though it is an old movie, this is the first time that I watched it. It was so fun. Fred's quirkiness made me laugh out loud so many times. He was obnoxious at times but he was also endearing. I enjoyed how ignorant he was to what he was doing and he just wanted to be himself. He was weird in a fun way and I loved seeing him fulfill his dreams.
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SUPERBLY FUNNY
This is the best slapstick comedy made since Stan and Ollie stopped making films. It is hilarious. Harland Williams is the star, and the source of most, if not all, the humor. The comedy really starts during training, and then continues for the duration of the film. I give it 5 stars just for comedy alone!
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Excellent Comedy
In the vein of classic Jerry Lewis movies, Rocket Man is an excellent piece of entertainment. If you don't like silliness, don't bother. The cast and crew of Rocket Man has worked well together to make this an enjoyable experience. If you love to laugh, watch Rocket Man.
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It's so bad... it's good.
I came across this movie while TV surfing, and kept trying to move on but I couldn't.
It is wonderful how awful it is!
It is definitely one of the silliest movies I have ever seen, silly to the point of stupidity, and I can't remember when I have enjoyed myself more.
While I kept telling myself I was too old (and refined) to be as amused as I was, I couldn't stop laughing.
If you can sit through it without giggling, someone should check you for a pulse!
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A good candidate for the most pointless waste of 90 minutes ever
Why is it, that when Hollywood wants to make a children's movie, they immediately jump to the conclusion that it has to be childish? You can make perfectly good children's movies that people over the age of six can watch, too, you know. Just look at The Neverending Story, or several of Disney's productions. This movie just does everything wrong. Instead of doing good humor, they settle for some cheap slapstick comedy, coupled with gross-out comedy, and to add that final flavor of crap, some childish comedy. The main character is in no way likable, not even the least bit; he's annoying, a jerk, a retard, he has the social skills of an infant and worst of all, he keeps destroying things beyond repair, only to blame it on someone else(on a similar note; am I the only one who thinks that "it wasn't me" is ripped from Steve Urkel's "did I do that?" or Bart Simpson's "I didn't do it"? Lastly, both of those catchphrases are far superior and much more entertaining than the one from this lame movie). The 'love' story is unlikely and obviously just thrown in to take up screen-time and to not disappoint that little group of emotionally disturbed people who can't watch a movie that doesn't end with the unlikely hero winning the girl, no matter how ludicrous a case it is. The plot is about as nonsensical as they come, and is merely put together to allow for plenty of painfully unfunny "comedy" scenes. The characters are clichés. The acting is so far below average that it's ridiculous. Everything about this movie is lame and unfunny. Pity, too, because Dumb and Dumber proved that Harland Williams can be funny, if only mildly. In this he's just juvenile and annoying. I wouldn't even recommend this to kids, as it's simply so bad. The special effects look hideous, too, and are really directly embarrassing to professional movie-making. This could have been made in the 60's, and it would have looked better. The humor is childish and lame, there wasn't one single moment throughout the runtime where I as much as smiled at a joke or gag. The jokes and gags are forced and try way too hard to be funny, and just end up looking embarrassing to the cast and the filmmakers, who, surely, can do better than this pitiful waste of time and energy. The runtime is barely 90 minutes, yet it's incredibly hard to sit through. I urge you, please, avoid this like the plague. It's more bad than you can possibly believe. I recommend this to no one, not even kids; well, actually, if you're a parent and you need your kid to leave you alone for about 90 minutes, put this on, and just avoid even catching a glimpse of it. That's the only possible use I can come up with for this unbelievably bad "movie". If you do have it, if you rented it on VHS or DVD, I only have one suggestion(apart from the above mentioned one and of course returning it as soon as humanly possible); fast-forward about 45 minutes into the film, where there is played a good, old-fashioned rock song, something 60's or 70's, I'd guess. That's the one redeeming quality of this film, and it's not even enough to bring the rating up from the lowest score of one. 1/10
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Harland Williams has his moments
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.
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Houston we have many, many problems
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Plot; A quirky computer programmer is recruited to be part of NASA's first mission to Mars.
You get the sense that Disney looked at Jim Carrey and thought "Gee, he's become real popular. Let's get our own affable, rubber-faced Canadian comedian.". The comedic Canuck in question is Harland Williams, who gamely mugs his way through this thin, poorly made space romp, but his best efforts aren't even close to being able to save it. Watching pros like Beau Bridges and William Saddler slum their way through this dreck is the rotten cherry on the suck sundae.
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Unwatchable
How long can you watch a "comedy" without laughing? I can do it for an hour and a half apparently. I love Harland Williams but let's face facts, he will never get the lead in a good movie. The most interesting thing about this movie is that him and his mom look the same age.
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I agree underrated.
It is for the most part a clean family film. I think it is hilarious and I haven't seen it recently but loved it as a kid. I watched it again a few yrs ago and laughed my tail off. He has good impersonations. The scenario set up here is awesome and follows through on the comedy.
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Failure Clearly Is An Option For This Embarrassingly Juvenile And Seriously Inept Piece Of Space Junk
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
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Absolutely the funniest EVER!!!
This is the funnies movie I have ever seen. From the start to the end, laugther abounds. This is not a serious movie by any sense, it is a comic relief. I am a "once I've seen it, I don't need to see it again" movie viewer, however, I have watched this movie at least a dozen times. The 2nd and 3rd times were the funniest. The first time, you laugh so much, you miss many other comical lines and scenes. Again, this is not a movie to move you or to watch expecting anything serious, but it is a great comdey!!
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A piece of space trash
This film is about a silly man who gets to represent America on a space mission to land on Mars.
The plot is really silly. The acting is so over the top. The punchline 'It wasn't me" is used to many times that it became so annoying. The jokes are not funny. The worst is that the props looks so fake. It can easily be seen that the space helmets are made of soft plastic. In one scene on Mars, the space helmets don't even have a glass shield on. I am sure the production budget of this film is even less than a typical B movie. I know this movie is aimed at young kids, but that is not an excuse for the movie being bad. This movie is an unfortunate embarrassment to the film studio's collection.
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Painful To Watch
I'm in the minority on this, but I really disliked this film.
I generally like to watch Harland Williams. Typically, he's a fine straight man, but sometimes, his dry wit shows through. In Rocketman, however, he has allowed himself to be reduced to sophomoric antics worthy of any SNL reject (and I say that with all due respect) and appears to belong in a Rob Schneider movie.
Quite frankly, this was too painful to watch. The character wasn't funny. He was pathetically moronic...sad...not funny. This has been heralded as awesome, and hilarious, but neither is this funny, nor is it awe inspiring. It's just stupid, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
I was not entertained, nor was I amused with this film.
It rates a a 1.2/10 from...
the Fiend :.
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Lose This Film in Space.
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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
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