![]() ![]() This Weinstein feature tries hard to avoid being lambasted, ducking and dodging around the screen in a dizzying display of frantic screaming. ![]() Something, something self-sacrifice is rendered moot as a metaphor with a Hollywood ending, bug-eyed Area 51 denizens saviors as they impersonate The Beatles. This towering hunk of metal, LEDs, and glowing speheres akin to a Frankenstein laboratory is enjoyably imposing, lending credence to the madness of a villainous general.Įscape is superficial enough to be mindless, possibly damaging in its flighty plotting. Plotting leads into a planet-destroying super weapon, if only to give main characters something to do. To its credit, this visual dazzler is a champion of design. Stretchy animation adds a pleasing layer of cartoon mayhem, dropping any shred of internal reality for sketchy gags that work about half the time. Escape loves hard to follow action, zipping spaceships and fighter jets through a dazzling frame that only slightly recalls Independence Day. Pacing is expedient, enough for any passing groans to be wiped free by upcoming events. Toss in 7-11 plot points (the convenience chain must have funded half of this movie) and Escape is a wee bit tangled in its own vines, or tentacles. Like Scorch, Escape from Planet Earth is a wee bit full of itself, dumping pop culture zingers and marginally infectious energy onto the screen in hopes of having something stick. In the end, Scorch and his brother Gary leave most of them on Earth. Scorch Supernova is a glistening beacon of perfection, except for being an idiot.īrendan Frasier does his best Patrick Warburton as an over-aggressive, stardom infatuated moron who departs to Earth, err, ‘Dark Planet,’ to rescue a small fleet of captured multi-planet aberrations. Celebrity worship leads evening news, bumbling heroism is plastered onto breakfast cereals, and identifiable track suits are adorned with corporate logos. Planet Baab has evolved as our own despite implications we, as humans, evolved backwards.
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