Disney+ Crater Review: A Teen Sci-Fi Adventure That Subverts The Typical Disney YA Routine
and written by John Griffin, the film follows five friends as they travel to a moon crater to find treasure in the 23rd century.
The film starts with Caleb , Addison , Dylan , Borney , and Marcus trying to hijack a space rover in the middle of a lock down due to an on coming meteor shower. As the group argues as to why their plan isn’t working, Caleb thinks about how his deceased father Michael . In his meeting with Ms. Slater, he finds he’s been chosen to go to Omega—a paradise and home of the wealthy. He doesn’t want to go and leave his friends but according to Slater he has no choice.
In a previous memory, Caleb’s father told him there is a special crater on the moon that he wanted to show him. This was the reason for the gang stealing the rover in the first place. Problem is they’re heading out during a meteor shower during lockdown, and none of them have ever been outside the dome they live in. They also need the access code to steal the rover and escape the mines, which is how Addison joined the group. She’s from Earth and the daughter of a scientist.
The movie has no business looking as good as it does. Disney didn’t skimp out on the budget just because this is a kids film.T he production design by Nora T. Ekberg is impeccable as indoor and outdoor shots, matched with VFX work by Carey Villegas, feel like they are out in space and not just some sound stage in the middle of Los Angeles.
The acting from the five leads is the most authentic part of this story as they are allowed to sound and behave like teenagers who have been friends for years. While the film can be hokey at times and super convenient for the protagonists,is a film with something to say about the labor force as well as an environmental message about cherishing and preserving the Earth and all it has to offer.
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