It's hard to say what the creators of \"Space Station 76\" were aiming for. But whatever it was, they didn't achieve it. <\/p>\n
A good cast and much proven comic talent on both sides of the camera are lost in space as director Jack Plotnick and his co-screenwriters Sam Pancake, Jennifer Elise Cox, Kali Rocha and Michael Stoyanov fail to nail a satisfying theme, narrative or purpose. <\/p>\n
\"Space Station 76\" is set on a spaceship in, as the press notes clarify, \"the future as it was imagined in the 1970s.\" But this is no \"Star Trek\"-type enterprise. Instead, we're on a kind of flying condo complex with several unhappy, dysfunctional married couples (Matt Bomer and Marisa Coughlan; Jerry O'Connell and Rocha) and several unhappy, dysfunctional singles (Patrick Wilson as the ship's surly, closeted gay captain and Liv Tyler as his kindly but lonely co-captain). There's also an equitable child, Sunshine (Kylie Rogers). <\/p>\n
Why these folks are there is blurry: The story, such as it is, lacks context. It's also without much of a structure. The film is essentially just a string of scenes, snapshots in the lives of its main characters. <\/p>\n
Oh, and an asteroid is hurtling toward the spaceship. Big whoop. <\/p>\n
But, really, what are we watching? If the film is a spoof, what exactly is it spoofing? If it's the 1970s, the period tunes and trappings seem random. If it's a comedy, it's rarely funny except for the robot shrink, which is inspired. And if it's a drama which much of the movie plays like it doesn't feel as if it should be taken seriously. <\/p>\n
There's a perhaps purposeful flatness to the overall tone; it's like cinematic Musak. To that end, the actors largely play things straight. But that only adds to the confusion. <\/p>\n
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'Space Station 76' <\/p>\n
MPAA rating: R for sexuality, graphic nudity, language, drug use. <\/p>\n
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