Sci-fi comedy - Teenager film
To gain public support for its outrageously expensive space research, the government launches an enormous publicity campaign in the form of a national lottery game with two very attractive scratch-and-win prizes: the right to board the next space shuttle! A handsome young man with a dark secret and a loveable loser who dreams of movie stardom are the two winners, and after the required tests are taken, they blast off into space. Things are fine until the crew is taken hostage by one of the passengers, a gruesome monster is discovered on board and everything spirals out of control.
This wonderfully silly, good-hearted comedy spoofs every space movie ever made, from Alien to Apollo 13 by way of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek and Armageddon. A Ticket to Space expresses genuine affection toward everyone it parodies while simultaneously celebrating and mocking the stereotypes of the Star Trek universe.