February 7, 2021

Space Sweepers: It Takes a Crew to Raise a Child

The four astro-pirates in Jo Sung-hee's Space Sweepers aren't looking to adopt a child. To the contrary, the least likable member of the crew — Tae-ho (Song Joong-ki) — is frantically doing all he can to retrieve the corpse of his neglected daughter before she drifts outside his galaxy. Yet once new kid "Dorothy" (Park Ye-rin) arrives on the scene, Ship Engineer Tiger Park (Jin Seon-kyu), Captain Jang (Kim Tae-ri), and resident robot Bubs (Kim Hyang-gi) discover their tenderer side and fall hard for this irresitbly precocious little girl.

Adoption has never been an easy process, though. And that's especially true in this apocalyptic future where eco-activists and a mad scientist (Richard Armitage) are set on saving and destroying the Earth, respectively. Good guys and bad alike want to get their dirty paws on this pipsqueak. As for her, she's digging her newly chosen family and is willing to call on her inner nanobots and compel those pesky nanobots into outerspace to fight off deadly lasers, metal claws, and the biggest bomb humankind has ever seen. Here's to the next generation!

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