Spaceman: Netflix fans brand Spaceman ‘awful’ as new Adam Sandler film climbs rankings

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Spaceman, the most recent film starring American comedy magnate Adam Sandler, has obtained scathing critiques from Netflix viewers.

In the film, the Uncut Gems star, 57, performs Czech astronaut Jakub Procházka, who is distributed on a mission to the fringe of the photo voltaic system shortly after the collapse of his marriage to his spouse Lenka (performed by Maestro’s Carey Mulligan).

But viewers have been damning in regards to the film’s premise and puzzling alternative of supporting actor… a large CGI spider.

When Sandler’s character encounters the outsized spider – voiced by There Will be Blood’s Paul Dano – they’re initially cautious of one another. But the astronaut comes to understand that the spider, named Hanus, might need some therapeutic knowledge to impart.

Netflix fans seem to be unconvinced by the film’s premise, with viewers branding it as “awful” and “plain stupid”.

“Spaceman is beyond awful. It’s not psychological, it’s just plain stupid,” wrote one individual on X/Twitter person.

Another added: “I sat through several hours of Adam Sandler in #Spaceman last night. It was [a] dirge. Plus the alien was a giant therapist spider.”

One fan was brutal sufficient to name it “one of the WORST” motion pictures they’d seen.

However, some had been extra diplomatic, with one viewer writing that the film had “great performances, interesting ideas and heavy themes” however was “bogged down by its slow pace”.

Meanwhile, one other mentioned that whereas the film has a “silly premise”, it tackles shifting themes.

“What feels like a silly premise turns into an unbelievably sad and touching movie that I highly recommend to anyone wanting to watch this weekend.”

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Another joked: “Didn’t know I needed a giant friendly talking spider in my life but thanks Spaceman.”

Speaking to The Independent about voicing the CGI spider in Spaceman, Dano mentioned he signed on as a result of he thought the premise “sounded crazy enough to be something”.

“When I heard that it was Adam Sandler on a spaceship talking to a giant spider, I was like… OK,” he mentioned, laughing. “It sounded crazy enough to be something.”

In The Independent’s two-star assessment of Spaceman, film critic Geoffrey Macnab writes that the film suffers from an id.

He says that the film is “another of those films about astronauts a long way from home who have unresolved personal business back on planet Earth”.

“We’re never quite sure if we’re watching a relationship drama, a Tarkovsky-like meditation on human solitude or another Gravity-like saga about an astronaut trying to survive.”

Spaceman is streaming on Netflix