‘Space Force’ Trailer: Steve Carell Is Tasked With Militarizing The Moon Or Something Like That
The Space Force is very much a real thing that the current presidential administration somehow thinks is important and necessary. It’s also a solid concept for comedy, or at least that’s what Netflix thought when they picked up the aptly titledSpace Forceseries fromThe Officeco-creatorGreg Danielsand the show’s former star and producerSteve Carell. Unfortunately, the firstSpace Forcetrailer makes the show look like as much of a shitshow as the idea of creating a real Space Force.
Space Force Trailer
This is a far cry from the comedic style ofThe Office. The mockumentary series on NBC was rather grounded, even though it did have some heightened antics thanks to some of the oddball characters, including Steve Carell as Dunder-Mifflin boss Michael Scott. But here, the comedy strikes a weird tone that feels like it might be trying to be likeDr. Strangelove, but it’s coming off more likeThe Men Who Stare at Goats, a movie that felt muddled and ultimately directionless.
Steve Carell is putting on a little more masculine, firm voice as four-star general Mark R. Naird, but it doesn’t feel authentic and makes the entire concept feel like a bad sketch that goes on for too long. There’s only one point in this trailer that made me chuckle, and it was only because I wasn’t expecting Carell to say “fuck.” Honestly, I was hoping for more from this series, but if this trailer is any indication of the kind of comedy we’re going to get, we might be in for a disappointment.
The lack of big laughs in this trailer is especially disappointing when you consider the cast includesJohn Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, Lisa Kudrow, Jimmy O. Yang, Noah Emmerich, Alex Sparrow, Don Lake, Diana Silvers, andTawny Newsome. There are some great comedy performers in there, but the trailer doesn’t really highlight them.
Space Forceis executive produced byHoward Kleinand 3Arts along with Greg Daniels, who is also the series showrunner, and it looks like they couldn’t capture comedic lightning twice with Steve Carell. But we’ll keep our fingers crossed and hope that maybe this is just a bad trailer.
