South Korean director Bong Joon-ho sets the bar low with Mickey 17, a tepid sci-fi comedy about colonization and worker disposability, that completely falls short of his 2019 masterpiece Parasite.

Of course Bong Joon Ho is an environmentalist. He recycles his own ideas."Mickey 17," a sloppy but enjoyable sci-fi comedy set in the year 2054, mashes together the monsterphobia of "The Host," the animal-rights activism of "Okja,