A science teacher buddies up with a boulder-like alien to save the sun in an escapist morale-booster from the makers of ‘The Lego Movie’

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s film is old-school American can-do at its most inventive and humane

A science teacher buddies up with a boulder-like alien to save the sun in an escapist morale-booster from the makers of ‘The Lego Movie’

Tale of a brilliant molecular biologist cast into outer space with only a helpful alien for company is a bit silly, but Gosling’s charisma keeps it watchable