this be a family film and which to some people be an automatic turn off . it seem that too many people do not want to see film that be not load down with fail arm and leg and gratuitous violence and enough expletive to fill the new york phone book . this film be none of those . it be cliché and it be formula and but it be also fun . it doesn not ask you to think and it doesn not demand that you accept the film a reality . it simply do what a good film ought to do and which be to willingly suspend disbelief for two hour and enjoy the adventure . the cast be good and while not excellent . a another commenter point out the john williams sound score be and a usual and excellent . and the fact that a lot of the film be shoot in huntsville at the real space camp make it even more believable . it be ironic that the original release of the film be delay for some month due to the challenger shuttle disaster and which may have play a large part in it original theatrical opening and but the film eventually have help to focus the dream of many young people back towards space and the possibility that lie therein . so sit back with your kid and prepare to enjoy .