cliff314 Review of Space Station 76

Space Station 76 (2014)

Aimed at a VERY Specific Audience

[7/10 · 13 October 2014]

This is a clever movie, full of nostalgia and humour, all of which will be lost on, dare I say it, the young. The premise is that the Space Station is as imagined in the seventies, and is therefore a reflection of life in the seventies, in behavior, in attitudes, in style, in design and in technology. If you didn't live during the seventies as an adult, (i.e. if you were born after 1960) you are really going to struggle with this movie, you just won't get it.

Just a few of the magic elements....

• The car type cigarette lighter built into the "dashboard" of the space station

• The woman having a glass of red wine while breastfeeding

• Most people smoking most of the time, with just the barest hint that smoking might be bad for you (we first started hearing this in the seventies)

• Half full ashtrays everywhere

• The green/yellow/orange geometric wallpaper (we all had this in our bathrooms, or we wanted to)

• The attitudes towards women, even (or especially) by the women themselves

• The clothes, hilarious but exactly what people wore

• The technology such as the phones, the clock radio, etc

• Jerry Connelly's hair

• The robot waiter bringing the captain a Harvey Wallbanger on the bridge

• The robot psychiatrist sprouting psychobabble and prescribing ever increasing quantities of Valium

• The "cryogenically frozen" pet which is delivered to the station and is actually just a dog in a huge block of ice!

• The fantastic soundtrack featuring several seventies classics from Todd Rundgren

• The bloke growing dope in the arbortrarium

and so on.

There isn't much in the way of a story, that is not what this movie is about.

So, if you were born in the mid fifties and can still remember the seventies, jump on board Space Station 76.