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Erb, who, despite — or, more likely,
because of — his background as
Mazin's roommate at Princeton, also
co-wrote.
"It wasn't me!" is the movie's catch
phrase. Fred employs it whenever he
has stumbled into someone or some-
body, effectively destroying it/dis-
abling him/her. Williams' antic slap-
stick shenanigans, briefly amusing, act
as a kind of psychic rasp; you can feel
layers of sanity being relentlessly, inex-
orably scraped away, until raw, throb-
bing nerve is exposed. Adults will like-
ly stagger into the lobby in a kind of
ecstasy that the thing is over at last.
RocketMan is for kids, and tykes at
the screening did enjoy some of the
foolishness. After all, few healthy 9-
year-olds can resist flatulence and
vomit gags. They deserve better, and
there's evidence that the filmmakers
know they're not delivering: Even the
special effects are fourth-rate. Fakey, as
we used to say.
The plot involves sending the first
spaceship to Mars. (Although it's a
contemporary story, NASA has
invented artificial gravity and "hyper-
sleep.") Fred, one of those — what are
they called, again? — computer nerds,
gets to go along at the last minute
because a gizmo of his conked the reg-
ular astronaut on the noggin. ("It was-
n't me!")
There's a chimp. Ah, but there's
always a chimp, isn't there? And even
though, early on, Lundy points out
that "he's not a monkey," everybody
calls him a monkey anyway.
Still, it's just a harmless kiddy
movie. Why trash it? Because it's
lousy. And who trashed it? It was I.
Rated PG.

— Reviewed by Arthur Salm

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