Pocahontas...in SPACE!

Rating: 6/10 (30 January 2010)

This film is very, very pretty. But that doesn't exactly make it a 'transcendental experience'. You can get pretty things by staring at the iTunes visualisations. My main gripe with this film is the characters and the story. The characters are relatively empty placeholders, except maybe Sigourney Weaver's character. The story...Oh boy. There are no surprises here. Everything you think will happen, pretty much does. Everything you've seen in about, twelve other films, you'll see here. So, if you don't mind recycled storytelling and want to see some pretty colours flash around for two and a half hours - go nuts. If you want original storytelling, compelling characters and inventive dialogue, see something else (like Brick, 2005).