What Goes Up

A period comedy set in the 1980s, Jonathan Glatzer's What Goes Up tells the poignant story of a morally challenged New York reporter who connects with a group of high school outcasts while in New Hampshire covering the story of Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian astronaut. Arriving in McAullife's ...more

What Goes Up is weighed down by a disastrously miscast Steve Coogan, an amateurish black-humor screenplay that drifts between overly earnest and trying-too-hard quirky, and production values that shout "direct to DVD." Also, using the doomed 1986 Challenger space shuttle mission as a heroes-are-human plot device feels more like easy exploitation than an appropriate allegory. Still, some of the kids are all right. Days before Challenger's scheduled launch, New York reporter Campbell Babbitt ...more

A period comedy set in the 1980s, Jonathan Glatzer's What Goes Up tells the poignant story of a morally challenged New York reporter who connects with a group of high school outcasts while in New Hampshire covering the story of Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian astronaut. Arriving in McAullife's hometown, reporter Campbell Babbitt (Steve Coogan) is distraught to learn that an old college friend has recently committed suicide. Meanwhile, as Babbitt attempts to craft an unsung hero story about ...more