The Reluctant Astronaut |  | Director: Edward Montagne
Actors: Don Knotts, Leslie Nielsen, Joan Freeman, Jesse White, Jeanette Nolan
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  21 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD23545D
UPC: 025192354526
EAN: 0025192354526
Theatrical Release Date: 1967
Release Date: September 2, 2003
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Product Description
A GOOFY ASTRONAUT WITH A FEAR OF HEIGHTS BECOMES ASSISTANT JANITOR, THEN GOES ON A SPACE MISSION.
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 Funny classic movie for the family August 18, 2009
S. Miller
They don't make movies like this anymore. A comedy that you can actually show the entire family. No bodily function jokes, no sexual innuendos, just Don Knotts starring in one of his funnier movies.
 Not for Kids August 1, 2009
classy movies (usa)
I got this with the intent of getting a clean funny movie we could watch as a family. Don Knotts goes on a drinking binge, there's more than one scene w/drinking and smoking, and most of the humor is based on the audience concuring that Knotts' character is unintelligent and unworthy of basic respect. Even w/out the child-viewing consideration factor it's more of a one-time rental than anything worth owning.
The Reluctant Astronaut September 21, 2008
Lise Vincent (Hull, PQ CANADA)
I found this movie was good but I have seen better from Don Knotts. If we sent anyone into outspace like this charactar, it would have sent space travel back decades.
 Quality Review August 30, 2007
Quality Man (Melbourne, Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I only do reviews on the quality and content of DVD's. There is plenty of
information about the plot, stars and directors etc. in the Product Description and other reviews.
Viewed on high quality DVD player and 86cm Plasma screen.
Packaging plain and simple with no inserts. Menu system is simple, static and has no music or sound. Bonus materials are just the trailer and other recommendations, which are pics only. The trailer looks pretty good though. I can remember seeing this trailer on the big screen, when I was a kid, on a Saturday afternoon at the movies.
When the movie finishes, the menu goes to the Bonus Materials screen. Obviously to try and sell you more stuff.
Sound is brilliant with perfect synchronization.
DVD transfer is excellent. Film quality is absolutely superb.
The picture sharpness is one of the best I've seen on DVD.
A great Saturday afternoon matinee family movie.
Do yourself a favour. You won't be sorry.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, blastoff to hilarity November 28, 2004
Daniel Jolley (Shelby, North Carolina USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Reluctant Astronaut is one of the truly classic Don Knotts films, consistently hilarious while also sporting some touching scenes between a father and his son. Roy Fleming (Knotts) is just about the last person you would want to shoot into space: I seriously doubt he could pass NASA's physical requirements, for one thing; he knows next to nothing about the requisite technology; and he is so terrified by heights that he can't even stand in a chair by himself. Fleming is just a below-average regular guy simulating space flights for kids at a carnival, trying to win the heart of the hot dog girl, and still living with his parents at the age of 35. His father has what you might call a dominating personality, and poor Roy proves unable to convince him that he does not want to be an astronaut. His father submitted the application for him, though, and he has already spread the word all over town that his son has been accepted. With great trepidation, Roy leaves for Houston (which is a funny bit all by itself), meets up with famous astronaut Fred Gifford (Leslie Nielsen), and is more than a little surprised to find out that he is actually going to be an assistant janitor. He tries to tell his father the truth, but the old man is so proud of his astronaut son that Roy begins living a lie. Of course, the truth will out in the end, and it looks like there will be no happy ending in sight. Then, in the depths of failure, a light of opportunity suddenly shines on Roy, and he gets the chance to make things right- if he has the courage to do what is asked of him.
This was a role seemingly tailor-made for Don Knotts. He's thoroughly convincing as the small-time loser pretending to be something he is not. While the film itself is openly silly, Knotts plays the scattered serious moments in a wonderfully sympathetic way and transforms his character into a hero of sorts even before he sets foot in the space capsule. It goes without saying that he is a comic genius, as well, so you can imagine just how funny his outer space scenes are. I wish I could catalogue every funny moment in the film, but that would deny viewers the pleasure of experiencing them all for themselves. Suffice it to say that The Reluctant Astronaut features one of history's funniest actors in one of his funniest movies - and it's good, wholesome entertainment, to boot.
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