Day of the Comet: Frenchmen and bear-sidekicks and meteors, oh my!

There are many thing the French do well — beret , smoking , rich solid food , spectacular uneasiness — but making a pseudo - schlocky homage to cheesy ’ 80s scifi - repugnance motion picture does n’t seem to be one of them .

The best agency to key out the mode of filmmaking hinted at here is “ blender ” : sky in some Weird Science , Night of the Comet , every other slasher movie ; splash with a hint of She ’s All That ; land up it off with a soupcon of Short Circuit ; then serve to an audience you ’re hoping does n’t be intimate any better .

Hey , it ’d be great if the finished merchandise could summon the nostalgia they ’re understandably go for . But , man , it does n’t depend like it .