10 Terrible Mars Movies That Don't Bode Well For The Martian
5. RocketMan
Rotten Tomatoes score: 24%
Box Office: $15 million ($16 million budget)
The Martian sees an early manned mission to Mars in trouble when the crew is unexpectedly caught in a sandstorm and have to take off quickly during it. But wait, that plot has already appeared on film. Yes, the set up of Ridley Scott's big budget sci-fi survival story is also the climax of this dire Disney comedy.
Weirdly imagining that there was an audience for a star vehicle for Dumb And Dumber supporting player Harland Williams, the movie then implausibly cast him as a computer scientist and made him spend much of his screentime acting opposite a chimp.
At least RocketMan isn't Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III director Stuart Gillard's worst regarded work, but it did mean William's career as a leading man was over as soon as it had begun.