Sugarcoated, glorified drama. The good: it makes one feel good. The bad: it's slow and coated with so much sugar, my teeth start to hurt.

Rating: 6/10 (9 April 2020)

Another feel good drama, director Ron Howard has been known for in all of his movies, with lots of SUGAR coated sentimental scenes, which the (more sentimentally geared) viewer will certainly appreciate, although my teeth started to hurt from the many almost commercial like feel good scenes, with a constant barage of strings, choirs and other glorious trumpet sounds.
The good: it's definitely (Hallmark / Disney) kind of feel good and the second half is quite suspenseful.
The bad: it's feel good overkill. Everything is smooth and safe.
It's tedious and slow at the beginning. There is more wrong: the first 45 minutes could have been cut out easily, although I get what director Ron Howard was trying to do, by endlessly showing us superficial family scenes. He wanted us to care about the characters, but the constant intermingled shots about the family at home really got on my nerves, because there were too many of them and they looked like Christmas commercials. Plastic.
This is definitely a space movie without ANY edges or originality. But some (many?) will surely appreciate this kind of sugar coated Hollywood stuff...