We're meant to feel uplifted, and for a moment, we are. But despite the film’s rosy resolution, as the film fades to black, the fact that we are still on a dying planet continues to loom large.

Serious subject matter aside, the movie is as bogus as Alex’s prospects of being an astronaut.

If the film never quite finds a way to marry its high concept premise, its twee romance, and its family melodrama into one cohesive narrative, it is not for lack of trying.

A great cast that makes the film hum along for the brisk 92-minute runtime.