Movie review
April 7, 2022 · 128 min · R
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
This 2022 documentary follows Elon Musk and SpaceX's two-decade effort to develop reusable rockets and return American astronauts to the International Space Station via the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission in 2020. It emphasizes engineering challenges, test failures, team perseverance, and the historic launch with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken. No audience-visible woke elements such as girl power messaging, identity themes, or activist framing appear in the narrative.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Return to Space.
Woke representation / casting
No forced diversity or identity signaling; real participants shown as they are.
Woke political dialogue
No explicit activist or social-justice dialogue.
Identity-driven story themes
No identity-driven plotlines or messaging.
Western institutional / cultural critique
No modern activist critique of patriarchy, capitalism, whiteness, or Western institutions; celebrates private-sector innovation instead.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant.
Production
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
No woke complaints or backlash present.
Creator track record context
No relevant prior work cited.
