See You on Venus is ultimately a very familiar ticking clock romance between two impossibly pretty actors that you’ve seen before and can probably outthink in a microsecond. It doesn’t help that the moon-brained girl fantasizes about Venus as this perfect place… and here I am thinking, yeah, there’s no war or hatred on Venus because you’d be dead before you could take your first breath. It’s not a hospitable place.

<scratches head> I might have missed the point.

Anyhow, the film is about a guy struggling with survivor’s guilt after a car accident and a girl who has aged out of the foster system. She hijacks him for a trip to Spain to find her birth mother… he goes along with her flibbertigibbet ways because… umm… low key blackmail? Something something Shut up the movie has to happen.

The two actors are pleasant and when the girl isn’t being overly quirky, they can be fun. I don’t have a kneejerk hatred of manic pixie dream girls, but this one wears her clothes inside out just to be different (and she admits it) which makes her a try-hard. Just be a moon-eyed goof, don’t announce it. It made me kind of dislike her.

But a lot of that goes away as we learn more about the characters, even if one of them ultimately suffers from a movie-like medical condition. The kind of condition that leads to a total bullshit ending. The kind of unearned emotional manipulation that normally doesn’t bother me but this time did bigtime.

But after a few deep breaths, yeah, it’s just one of these movies and it’s sometimes a little adorable and sometimes a little moving. It’s an ok flick about young love. I’ll forgive it its sins and admit it’s cute enough.

Let’s just leave Venus out of it.

Score; 76