The logic is a bit messy. Like how did they spend three weeks teaching Walt to be Calvin and yet he doesn’t even skim Calvin’s thesis despite reading Sophie’s and Sophie doesn’t think it could be important that her “boyfriend” knows her parents were dead. Also, how is she rich if she grew up next to a toxic dump site. Are Calvin’s parents rich and if so how did they meet. Or, did she get some sort of settlement from her parents wrongful death from pollution either could be interesting but they just let her be rich for the sake of getting her to Mars. I am glad that in the future we discover that crippling anxiety can be cured immediately by dancing. Also, why is it called Moonshot? There had to have been a more clever title.
I thought it was cute and I liked the introduction of Zach Braff’s character and would have liked to see more of him and Cole. I think they did too much trying to balance complicated romance narrative and Walt’s personal growth/Charlie and the Chocolate factory storyline. I feel like they could have just simplified some things and cut 20 minutes off the movie and it would have been better. What I think might have happened given Greg Berlanti’s involvement it could have been conceived as a series—and episode on Earth, a few on their way to Mars, and a couple more once when they arrived—allowing the world and relationships to be explored and explained with out having to quickly explain away things to have time for the love story. I’m disappointed because I feel like the performances were generally good and the concept was interesting but it needed some better script edit or restructuring.