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Adam Sandler Is All Wrong for Spaceman
Sandler plays a Czech astronaut. Paul Dano plays a giant spider from outer space that comes out of his nose. This movie should have been a lot better.
Based on Jaroslav Kalfař’s 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia, the film follows Jakub Procházka (Sandler), a cosmonaut on a long, lonely mission to investigate a curious interstellar cloud hovering near Jupiter. The next day, the creature is right there in his ship — an enormous arachnid alien (voiced by Paul Dano) from a distant galaxy that can communicate with him telepathically, and that soon takes the name Hanuš, after the medieval clockmaker who allegedly built Prague’s famous astronomical clock. But the latter half of the film sometimes feels like an extended, awkward monologue in which the alien gives voice to all of Jakub’s problems, and it gets repetitive — a data dump of dime-store psychology with little actual insight.
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