The Space Between Us

This movie is a little bit childish and I believe it will be enjoyed more by teenagers. However it is watchable and the special effects are good. The acting is also good. But it wasn't as good as I had hoped. It 's not really a movie about Mars or how it could affect the first human born there but a love story between two teenagers.

Don't be confused, this is a teen romance picture. It's just that one teen is from Earth, and the other is from Mars. I actually found it very sweet. Mars boy without a clue, and Earth girl with all the answers. Great acting, great direction, fantastic score. The special effect were a bit dodgy. This film was was supposed to come out in August, then pulled to December, and now it's released in February. Please see this film!!! I found it very uplifting. The performances of Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino, and BD Wong are fantastic. I have to keep writing because IMDb won't let a review of anything less than 10 lines ling post. Did I mention this is a kid friendly film? Thank you.

This is basically a movie about two teenagers on the run. They meet for the first time. The girl is streetwise and assertive. The boy is geeky and naive. They drive off through an America with lots of great scenery, and there's humour and romance and some feel good music. This is what is at the heart of the movie and it works well.

What doesn't work well is the back story, about the boy being born on mars. It makes for a pretty uneven film that starts out as a sci-fi movie with a crew of astronauts heading out to the stars, then morphs into something completely different. The special effects in space are wasted, because this part of the story didn't really need to be shown. Plus, some of the incidental music doesn't work too well.

The makers should've just stuck to the story of a lost boy who wanted to see the world, and a girl who just didn't fit in and was willing to show it to him.

This flick is certainly not a master piece but it is far from boring or as cheesy as some said. It is a coming of age story with some interesting premises. The FX are not grandiose and Gardner(Asa Butterfly)'s life on Mars should have deserve more exposure just to get a bit more in his mind and because he grows up the colony on Mars, this would have make easier for us to emphasize with his feeling during his trip on Earth. Here we just see his birth and then we jump 16 years later with a new character, his mum figure, from whom we don't know anything while she playing an important role in the story. Same for his pen pal Tulsa, it should have been a interesting story to see her grow up in parallel with her martian friend as she seem to had some hardship in her life as well. The rest of the movie is cute, but the lake of exposure for all the main characters stopped me to really feel for them. The end is conventional but fine they just should have avoid to write the obvious end twist has we got it almost from the beginning.

This movie has a lot of flaws. From the instant messaging on Mars to the poor character design, there's a problem in most scenes. HOWEVER. It's a really nice story. It made me feel good. And it holds sentimental value for me. Give it a try.