It's the 1950s, in small-town America. Astronomer Rodney (Tiriel Mora) and his pre-teen son Lucas (Xavier West) are out stargazing one day when they're shocked to discover a comet passing by in space. Soon after, when Rodney suddenly dies, Lucas decides to find out what happened to that comet and to try to protect his father's discovery and reputation. He recruits his friends Grace (Alicia Roberto), Claudia (Juliette Salom), Archie (Hamish Triggs), Tricks (Harrison Bradley) and Jackson (Liam Pope), to go on an adventure to track the comet down, becoming embroiled in a conspiracy in the process.
Yes. I am serious. That is the desperately hackneyed plot of this colossal cinematic stinker from Australia. But that's just the start of its problems. The Comet Kids is apparently set in the US but none of the child actors sound like they had a dialect coach and the sets and locations are even less convincing still; the two girls (one of whom is also an Asian shaman stereotype) are depicted as always needing the boys to save them, the inane scientific dialogue and over-stylised fight scenes are unintentionally hilarious, and it's bookended with a flashback stereotype that is so wholesome and schmaltzy it could make even Chris Columbus race to the toilet. Oh, and did I mention a suspiciously high number of the writer-director Glenn Triggs' relatives worked on it? (I hope he paid them all well.)
This may be the very worst Australian film I've ever made the error or watching. On behalf of us, I apologise to the rest of the world for Australia inflicting this one on you. Maybe there's a reason "comet" rhymes with "vomit." 2/10.
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