Converted from the Sony console game, this latest factory-line animation so insistently generates intergalactic spectacle that it tramples its own message about rejecting grand gestures and doing the right thing. As our plucky hero progresses from self-doubting cadet to resistance top gun, the animators prove rather better at rendering hovercars and bogey-guns than original ideas, repurposing key narrative and design elements from Pixar, TV’s Futurama, and perhaps even the old Super Nintendo shoot-’em-up Starfox. Again, it’ll fill a screen and kill 90 minutes if the kids have seen everything else – surely its biggest hope – but the ratio of hardware to heart badly needed another tune-up.
