Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Supernova, 2005, An astrophysicist discovers the sun will explode while a international team fights to find a solution to the end-of-the-world scenario.*Special Stars- Luke Perry, Peter Fonda *Theme- Science makes trouble for humanity.*Trivia/location/goofs- Australian made, TV movie, *Emotion- A rather crazy film with some dramatic situations but NOT saved by the rest of the film's good science fiction pacing. It looked like this film was 'cashing-in' on the era's black-hole news headlines. It's very bad and a waste of the starring actor's talents.

imdb-8006 I like Supernova, saw it on public TV when it was new, and I've never forgotten it. That's a show with some power to it, and I'd expect it to be a cult favorite someday.It's certainly not lowest common denominator comedy, there aren't any belly laughs or one-liners. It can be goofy as well as intellectual, mostly it's just offside. The central character is nervous, neurotic, and though he and everyone else consider him odd-man-out in the place, actually they're all so strange, he fits right in. For me, the best character was the younger bed partner for the woman heading up the observatory's work. He's indigenous Australian from a very tiny settler's town nearby, and perhaps the most modern-day well adjusted of the bunch. The town's rough pub is the only other setting, and the observatory people can drink as dedicatedly as townspeople who seem to seldom leave the bar.If you're bored by average sitcoms, I'd recommend this. After all, if you don't like it, you've wasted very little time. It's completely non-mainstream, no doubt that's why the series is so short.

fozzie747 The show is set around a deep space observatory in Central Australia and the personalities of those who work within.The facility is staffed by Aussies except for one English interloper and it is he who adds a delightful twist to many a circumstance.The eclectic group that staff the facility is highly intelligent, extraordinarily dedicated and personally insecure.The facility is located not too far from a small outback Aussie town. ( A Pub, a shop and a couple of houses )This creates a beautiful dynamic between the staff, internally at the facility and the staff with the locals of the town.This interplay makes for much light hearted humour, very little seriousness and a jolly good time. The Aussie outback shines almost as much as the delightful performances, the whacki humour and the night sky.

Rob Mukherjee The above review is misleading. After a slow start, BBC2's quirky comedy improved steadily throughout its first series, not just by giving Rob Brydon the space needed for him to show his talents, but also to give room to his more than able co-stars.The second series, currently showing on BBC2, hit the ground running - without the need to establish the characters or introduce new ones, the entire cast seemed to have moved up a gear. The plots are more ridiculous and far-fetched, the budget, which stretches to racing camels in one episode, improved and the scripts give all the actors the opportunity to shine.If there's one criticism, its that six episodes in a series is not enough - roll on series 3!