09/26/2022
Plot
Functionally unemployed middle aged father of two, Ray spends much of his time at the local library attempting to organize a gang of space pirates. For these efforts, he is mocked on social media. His wife, Red, is frustrated by Ray’s lack of ambition and sub par earning ability.
Red cashes in a favor with a friend and arranges a job interview for Ray at an insurance agency. As Ray shakes hands with his wife’s friend, he imagines himself wearing a golf shirt with the company logo on the shirt pocket and a bluetooth earpiece like her friend is wearing. This image provokes Ray to vomit on the insurance agent’s shoes.
Later, Ray sits by himself at a table at the local franchise of a fading national fried chicken and fish chain, Peg Leg Sally’s, enjoying his chicken plank dinner and replaying a conversation with his wife in his head. At a nearby table, Almost, the escaped alien convict disguised as a twelve year old boy who will soon help Ray achieve his dreams of space piracy, sits enjoying his dinner. This branch of Peg Leg Sally’s is managed by Larry, a teenaged punk rock queen who can be seen seated in a lawn chair on the roof as Ray leaves the restaurant.
When Ray gets home from Peg Leg Sally’s, he finds his wife Red in bed with the insurance agent whose shoes he puked on. Red kicks Ray out of the house and he’s forced to stay with his friend Gafney, who lives in a hidden underground McMansion deep beneath a storage facility with his roly poly black lab, Deets.
Larry has a dream in which she sees Ray float through space passing by the drive thru window of her Peg Leg Sally’s. This leads to Larry attending a Space Pirates Club meeting at the library and Ray subsequently getting a job at Peg Leg Sally’s. Almost also joins the SPC and helps transform a boom box purchased at a pawnshop for $8 into the “Starship Homeboy.” A dozen other SPC crew members are brought into the fold. Ray wins the captain’s election when the eternally loyal Larry casts her vote for Ray instead of herself. The SPC gets a lead on its first score from Captain Faraway, the vengeful ex-CFO of the galaxy’s largest corporation, now marooned on Earth and living in a van with his family.
Larry can’t attend their first space pirate raid because she can’t find anyone to cover her Saturday night dinner shift at Peg Leg Sally’s. Almost is also MIA at launch time due to troubles with outer space bounty hunters. The whole town sees the Starship Homeboy launch. The ‘Homeboy then buzzes the International Space Station on their way out of Earth orbit.
Several months pass and the Starship Homeboy doesn’t return to Earth from its raid. Larry has become captain of a now much larger Space Pirates Club in Ray’s absence. Mounting an attempt at rescuing their missing crew, Larry, Almost and Ray’s 13 year old daughter seek counsel from a posse of fantastic super beings called the Food Court Warlords, who hang out at a Denny’s near the local mall.
As the finishing touches are put on the Space Pirates Club new interstellar vehicle, a corporate armada appears in the skies above Earth threatening planetary destruction. Ray’s daughter has the last line in the film. “Looks like dad really pi**ed them off.”
