Someone mentioned Lockout (2012) in the monthly "Interstellar or This Movie, FIGHT!" thread and this feels like Luc Besson's entry for an Escape From (whatevs) sequel. Not quite Escape From Earth, but it's close. Starring Guy Pearce as Wubba Lubba Dub Dub, Peter Stormare as Peter Stormare playing it straight (such a waste, that man has a delicious ham when he goes full ham), and Maggie Grace, best known for the somewhat obnoxious mani-pixy daughter of Taken, which I imagine is holding her choice of roles back at this point. She's lovely in this though, just to get that out the way.
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The actual plot is that Wubba Lubba Dub Dub has had an secret operation backfire and is possibly framed for a crime he didn't commit (the explanation for which is shocking. Shocking I say), and is supposed to spend some 30 years in an orbital supermax prison, but the president's daughter being there with the worst secret service agent ever means he is instead sent into the prison to save her from the now released prisoners (all of them? yes). Meanwhile, Wubba Lubba Dub Dub also searches for his partner in the prison because he needs a certain briefcase back.
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But this is where it hits you: either these actors are rewriting their lines completely to be in line with what they think about this thing, or is this some kind of near-improv satire or something. Or it's just written by a Frenchmen. They tend to do that. Wubba Lubba Dub Dub is either playing his character or completely not giving a shit (I think he's actually playing the character in line with Snake Plisskin, smoking included. Some dialogue seems to directly relate to that too)
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This movie is amazing. Just not for the usually correct reasons. It is a lot of fun though, and avoids some tropes while having fun with them too, so that's a plus in my book.
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I Don't Give A Fuck! out of Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!
