The filmmakers whose projects didn't make it to the Sundance Film Festival must weep bitter tears when they see "The American
Astronaut," a movie that is utterly worthless, yet still made it to the festival. "They thought THIS was better than MY movie?!" they probably wail. "I made a film in which I videotaped my goldfish swimming around for 90 minutes. Isn't that better than 'The American Astronaut'?" Well, yes. Yes it would be. Taking place in the future, "The American Astronaut" is a cheerily no-budget sci-fi musical about a Han Solo-ish character named Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee, also writer/director) who has to fetch a boy from the all-male Jupiter and take him to be the new stud on the all-female Venus. But the semi-evil Professor Hess (Rocco Sisto) is on his trail, turning people into mounds of dirt every chance he gets.
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