Twelve-year-old Mike comes from a long line of aspiring astronauts, none of whom have yet made it into space. His grandfather was dropped from the Apollo mission at the last minute and now nurses a meteor-sized chip on his shoulder. His father is a Nasa hotshot, but a foot injury sees him grounded just when it looks as if the US is about to revisit the moon. So it’s up to Mike to break the family curse, and in doing so stop a despotic energy billionaire from becoming the most powerful man in the universe. Using his kite-surfing skills and his friend’s pet iguana, that’s exactly what he does. Less a coherent plot, more a random assortment of unrelated elements, this family film never successfully takes off. And several of the characters are so grating you long for a lunar disaster to strand them as far away from planet Earth as possible.
