![]() ![]() This goes double for the central brother dynamic between Scorch and Gary because Scorch is kind of an irredeemable asshat. Otherwise, there are no real characters in this movie and that makes it hard to care about what happens to all of them. ![]() Gary is the only slightly developed character here and that’s purely because he’s the lead. This movie is overstuffed and the fact that it runs the credits at about minute 80 of 89 means that everything is glossed over with the bare minimum of effort and detail. And Gary is almost immediately captured by the military, too, and thrown into Area 51 where he meets four other aliens. And there’s also two comic relief human characters (voiced by Chris Parnell and Steve Zahn). Because there’s also a conspiracy, involving the head of the alien planet’s space program (voiced by Jessica Alba). After yet another argument about their opposing viewpoints on life, Gary quits and Scorch has to take on his next mission alone: a recon mission to The Dark Planet, otherwise known as Earth, where he is promptly captured by the military, led by General James T Shanker (William Shatner and, yes, that is the supposedly clever joke).įeeling partly responsible, Gary heads off on a rescue mission, where both he and Scorch may just learn a thing or two about a thing or two, whilst his wife Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker) and son try and uncover the conspiracy back home. Scorch (Brendan Fraser) is the younger brother and he’s a heroic manly man who’s kinda dumb and also a jerk but he’s got big muscles and a love for danger and action Gary (Rob Corddry) is the older brother and he’s more cautious and detail-oriented, a bit of a doormat and the head of Mission Control, ergo he’s supposed to be in command of his brother. Our story, which proceeds at light speed because this film is barely 90 minutes with credits, revolves around two alien brothers. Sequences set to chart-ready pop songs? Sledgehammer-subtle moralising message? Fart jokes? Toilet humour? Jokes specifically for parents that typically involve gay panic or implied rape as punchlines? Pop culture references in place of actual jokes? Obnoxious product placement? An unfunny catchphrase repeated ad nauseam in an effort to make it the next cultural phenomenon because if you say it enough times then kids will eventually start saying it too? (It’s “Scorch me, baby” in case you’re wondering.) Bored celebrities turning in paycheque collecting performances? Really cheap animation? They’re all here and all accounted for and result in one of the most singularly boring bad movies I have had the displeasure of sitting through in quite some time. ![]() Chances are it shows up here at least three times. ![]() Think of every single bad trait of your stereotypically bad kids’ animated film. They made the first ever all-CG cartoon TV series in the form of Re-Boot, they’ve been pumping out Direct-To-DVD Barbie films since 2001, they made that one Dire Straits video that everyone remembers as well as something called Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage (which, yes, I have seen before… it’s not good), and they’re going to give us big screen versions of Ratchet & Clank and Sly Cooper in the near future! Past experience is past experience and I was hoping for a good film.Įscape From Planet Earth is not a good film. Rainmaker Entertainment, the people responsible for the film, aren’t exactly first-timers. Naturally, that info bode well for what I was going to see. I was told this by an American friend of mine over Twitter whilst I killed time waiting for it to start. It’s been on Netflix Instant over there for a good while, too. It got its American release on February 13th of 2013. Not at all.įun Fact: this film has been out in America for over a year. In this problem you will need to know that the gravitational potential energy of an object of mass m at a distance r from the centre of an object of mass M is given by PE = GMm/r where $G = 6.You could probably make a good movie out of Escape From Planet Earth. Over the last couple of decades evidence for the real existence of black holes in the galaxy has grown. The black hole was discovered as a concept: an object so dense that even light beams would not be able to escape its gravitational pull. The 1920s following Einstein's discovery of general relativity. It was noted in the 1700s by Laplace that for a very massive body the escape velocity would approach the speed of light. Whilst escape velocity is a real concept, attempting to reach such speeds in the atmosphere would cause immediate disintegration of almost any object. This problem introduces the concept of Escape Velocity. ![]()
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