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I stumbled across this the other day. Has anyone else watched it?

I was entirely and thoroughly surprised by it. The premise and spectacle is so silly and crazy it drags you in (let's build 10,000 engines and relocate Earth to Alpha Centauri to escape an expanding sun!), and the special effects were really very cool. Also had a solid family story throughout.

Once you buy into the premise, and ignore most of your physics, it was a lot of fun. The fact that those two things require a LOT of work is the only real problem.

Its much better than I expected, however silly the initial premise is.

I frankly just viewed it as a live action anime rather than a typical scifi armageddon movie like we make here in the US, which takes the edge off the craziness, so I could enjoy the special effects. Even as a casual viewer, I've seen actual Anime be 100 times crazier when it comes to a scifi premise.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
(let's build 10,000 engines and relocate Earth to Alpha Centauri to escape an expanding sun!)

That's why it's best to ignore the science. Like building giant arks in the Himalayas in 2012, and people somehow surviving every volcano on earth erupting and nearly every land mass subsiding into the ocean without it creating a new ice age.

It's why I said I found it easiest to imagine it as a live action anime.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
That's why it's best to ignore the science. Like building giant arks in the Himalayas in 2012, and people somehow surviving every volcano on earth erupting and nearly every land mass subsiding into the ocean without it creating a new ice age.

It's why I said I found it easiest to imagine it as a live action anime.

Oh I routinely ignore the “science” in movies. I just really love that line of Batman’s response to Superman saying he could just move the earth out of the way and it was too perfect not to use it.

As any fan of SPACE 1999 will tell you - you don't need rockets. You just need a LOT of nuclear waste to explode in one single spot to throw something off-orbit!

What if we just get everyone in America to like jump at the same time?

 Overread wrote:
As any fan of SPACE 1999 will tell you - you don't need rockets. You just need a LOT of nuclear waste to explode in one single spot to throw something off-orbit!

Lucky for you, this essentially happens as well in this movie!

 Overread wrote:
As any fan of SPACE 1999 will tell you - you don't need rockets. You just need a LOT of nuclear waste to explode in one single spot to throw something off-orbit!

And at enough speed to encounter previously unknown alien planets in a matter of weeks. That probably were inhabited by Brian Blessed.