Project Hail Mary mashes up goofy antics with high-stakes space drama. Here's how you know Project Hail Mary is a work of science fiction: It's about the disparate nations of Earth pooling together their resources and intelligence to confront an apocalyptic problem -- in this case, the pending death of the sun, due to a mysterious alien substance.

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider.