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Morons form Outer Space.
I just watched this on TV last night. I never bothered before as I had been warned about it. Everything that I had heard was true...
British comedy in which Earth's first extraterrestrial visitors arrive in the form of four low-class tourists. They are cruising through space in their mobile home spaceship when suddenly they have a malfunction. Unable to fix the problem, three of the four aliens accidently leave in part of the ship and they crash land on Earth. At first they are treated like aliens and interrogated by the government, but suddenly they become celebrities performing in concerts and advertisements. The fourth alien, after hitching a ride on another spaceship, is dumped on Earth as well, but lands in America instead of the UK as the others did. Finally, after making his way to a concert and finding the others, the fourth alien is rejected by the other three. Then the man comes from the hire company because the mobile home was due back two weeks ago.
This film has very little to redeem it. This is a shame because I like Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, but this is dire, it was painful and a chore to watch it all. There was some good British talent involved in it too:
Directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Flash Gordon)
Executive Producer Verity Lambert (Dr Who, Jonathan Creek)
Jimmy Nail plays himself as usual as a rude stupid idiot.
Paul Brown plays himself as usual as a useless dumb wet blanket.
The only mildly amusing sketch was when the French alien-language specialist, who could speak no English, was about to speak to the spacecraft using 'Close Encounters'-style musical notes, played on a Wurlitzer Organ.
Morons form Outer Space.
I just watched this on TV last night. I never bothered before as I had been warned about it. Everything that I had heard was true...
British comedy in which Earth's first extraterrestrial visitors arrive in the form of four low-class tourists. They are cruising through space in their mobile home spaceship when suddenly they have a malfunction. Unable to fix the problem, three of the four aliens accidently leave in part of the ship and they crash land on Earth. At first they are treated like aliens and interrogated by the government, but suddenly they become celebrities performing in concerts and advertisements. The fourth alien, after hitching a ride on another spaceship, is dumped on Earth as well, but lands in America instead of the UK as the others did. Finally, after making his way to a concert and finding the others, the fourth alien is rejected by the other three. Then the man comes from the hire company because the mobile home was due back two weeks ago.
This film has very little to redeem it. This is a shame because I like Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, but this is dire, it was painful and a chore to watch it all. There was some good British talent involved in it too:
Directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Flash Gordon)
Executive Producer Verity Lambert (Dr Who, Jonathan Creek)
Jimmy Nail plays himself as usual as a rude stupid idiot.
Paul Brown plays himself as usual as a useless dumb wet blanket.
The only mildly amusing sketch was when the French alien-language specialist, who could speak no English, was about to speak to the spacecraft using 'Close Encounters'-style musical notes, played on a Wurlitzer Organ.
