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The most common equation (or it used to be) for judging the relative success or failure of a movie is that it must earn one-and-a-half times its cost in order to break even. If The Rocketeer cost $35 million, then its gross of $46 million wouldn't quite reach breakeven making it not a disaster...

<p> A fizzy if not wholly successful fantasy adventure film that mixes some real-life personalities and the cinematic tone of 1930s Hollywood with fictional protagonists and antagonists, Joe Johnston’s <em>The Rocketeer</em> remains a fun film even if it doesn’t quite achieve the same spirit of...