Our four heroes were Team Daedalus, military pilots being trained to go into space - until 1958, when they were replaced with a monkey, who went up instead, thanks to the doings of their affably nefarious boss, Bob Gerson (James Cromwell). Those are four charismatic, likable guys, and one of the basic laws of comedy is that old guys doing stuff = funny.īut then, if you’re going to underuse the immensely endearing Garner, drag out the film with a silly Cold War subplot, and borrow too much from - heaven help us if filmmakers are actually borrowing from this - “Armageddon,” well, then you’ve got trouble.Īnd that’s “Space Cowboys” in a nutshell: extremely funny and charming (thanks to the inspired casting) for an hour or so a little bumpy after that. If you’re going to make a movie in which old guys played by Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner and Donald Sutherland all go into space as astronauts, you’ve got the potential for a very entertaining film.
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