MORE REVIEWS AT booksequalhappiness.blogspot.comMy 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.

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 is a geeky spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true. Travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there....Liking this film really depends on whether or not you like the main star, Harland Williams. Here in the UK, he's only really famous for his scene in Dumb and Dumber, and everything else he's done non-Farrelly, has gone straight to DVD and disappeared without a trace.What appealed to me about this movie, and you will know where I am coming from if you've read my other reviews, is that its one of those films from the late nineties that were rife and were released almost every other week.Comedies that shouldn't be good, but for some reason, you seem to have some endearment for them.Carpool, Gone Fishin', Most Wanted, the list is endless, and the films are as watchable as ever.It's a straight forward movie, silly geek gets a job that is over his head, every one hates him and takes liberties to begin with, but come the end, he's the hero and he falls in love.It's straight forward silly stuff, with a few laughs that you can switch your brain off to for ninety or so minutes.If you haven't seen it and like this sort of movies, catch it, its quite funny

Harland Williams is great. He has a brand of weird, off the wall humor that is strictly his own, which is a good thing. This movie is really the only "Harland Williams vehicle" I know of and I think its pretty durn funny. Its extremely stupid, but it reminds me of the 80s, when PG rated zany comedies were a common thing. This would be a great movie for kids, and as a 27 year old, I think its pretty funny even for adults. The story is basically very simple and quite dumb, but Williams bizarre antics keep it interesting and funny. When a movie spends about 10 minutes on a fart joke, you know you're dealing with some juvenile entertainment. So, just enjoy it.