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...given that the boy's natural father, backed by both sets of grandparents, have demanded his return. "Cuban-American organizations will exhaust every last resort they have, including street protests, because they want to keep the boy here as an anti-Castro symbol," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "Family concerns aren't a major consideration of the organizations involved. They've argued all along that the family he's with is less important than which country he's in, and they believe he's better off here...
...where geeks in space suits assault them with technical queries. Turns out a few of the dweebs are actual aliens, who believe the show's actors are just the astral heroes needed to rebuff an attack on their planet. There's a bit of humor in the spectacle of Tim Allen as a Shatnerized action figure and Sigourney Weaver as a blond bimbette, but the premise--familiar from the 1986 comedy !3 Amigos!--needs more ingenuity to enliven it than anyone here could muster. In this space epic, no one will hear you laugh...