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Morons from Outer Space

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I love this film.
I actually saw it by accident because the video carried on recording all night after I recorded something else and I thought I might as well watch it, after all, the title was pretty amusing. It turns out that so is the rest of the film.
I can't remember a single minute where I was bored, it had me laughing all the way through, especially the moron's reactions when the door falls off their spaceship. Desmond's line then had me giggling all night. It's hilarious when they 'play' chess too.
It's probably not the sort of thing that appeals to everyone, but if you like crazy comedies about beer guzzling morons from another planet then this is the film for you. It's definitely British comedy though, which is different to American comedy and I think funnier, but in a different way.
I'd recommend this to anyone who's looking for a good night in with a few mates and a lot of laughs, but it you're after something in any way serious and thought provoking, look somewhere else. On course if that's what your looking for you wouldn't even be reading up op a film with that title, I hope.

If you liked 'transylvania 6-5000', and enjoy british comedy, i.e. bean, monty python, black adder, then this might be for you. I laughed throughout the movie, rent it and see what you think! i hope you enjoy it. lars

I loved this movie... Laughed from beginning to end.... Then started thinking about the real message... If there are alien civilizations in the galaxie and they are so advanced that space travel is part of daily life then, there just has to be be alien morons who drive around bumping into things(the planet earth in this case). So next time an "advanced alien civilization" tries to contact us it may just be some morons on vacation.....

Bizarre, highly entertaining, always hilarious humor in this British comedy, very much a cross between Airplane and Monty Python type humor. Funny all the way to the end!

"Morons From Outer Space" is a great concept for a parody. Four daft aliens crash their "Podule" on Earth due to their own incompetence. Earthlings are prepared to accept their hyperintelligence as a given, but they are collectively as dumb as a box of hair. Most of the comedy is very broad with occasionally amusing bits of satire thrown in (particularly related to the Cold War.) For instance, when the alcohol-guzzling space loons crash their ship in England, they do so on the M1 motorway, causing a substantial traffic snarl. What is the punch line to the scene? After being nearly run down by the Podule, one motorist says to another "I think he was Belgian." Hilarious, no?

The aliens are split into a group of three, Julian Tope (Paul Bown,) Sandra Brock (Joanne Pearce,) and Desmond Brock (Jimmy Nail) who are staggeringly imbecilic. The humor associated them was so sub-Benny Hill I could almost not take it (don't miss the hilarity of the exploding cooker scene.) The remaining moron in question, Bernard (Mel Smith,) is actually only slightly mentally-deficient, but spends the bulk of the film in a mental hospital (not funny,) talking to garbage cans (somewhat funny the first couple of times, not so funny thereafter,) and trying to get his former friends to acknowledge him (oh, the pathos.) Obviously there's a lesson in there about the meaning of true friendship, but it's pointless in a farce of this nature. Throughout this movie I couldn't think of Mel Smith as anything other than an actor trying to do his best John Candy impression in a film that would have actually been suitable to Candy's choice of roles. I think Smith and Griff Rhys Jones who plays Graham Sweetley can be quite talented writers and performers (much better than John Candy,) but their efforts here come up way short.

There were a few touches in the writing that were quirky and funny (e.g. "When you're in the tub and a man-eating spider crawls out of the faucet, you don't ask him to pass you the soap.") There were even a few funny satirical concepts, as when Bernard defeated the asylum employees who tormented him with an "Iron Maiden" album by wearing earplugs. Sadly though, for each amusing moment there are a hundredfold more like the execrable worst ping pong lesson ever.

There are a few nuggets of humor in here, but while I love British cinema and television, and I love satire and comedies, this is less playful than it is painful.

Very original and a "reel" pleasant surprise. Most movies of this type are awful in poor taste and boring but this one rates right up there with the "Green Slime" and "The Monster that Challenged the World," as camp "B" movie hits go. Imagine what they might do in a sequel---perhaps "Macaroons From Outer Space"?

-----* CAST -----*

Mel Smith - Bernard
Griff Rhys Jones - Graham Sweetley
Paul Bown - Julian Tope
Joanne Pearce - Sandra Brock
Jimmy Nail - Desmond Brock
Dinsdale Landen - Comdr. Matteson
James B. Sikking - Col. Laribee
David Haig - Palatial House Flunkey

-----* CAST -----*

Mel Smith - Bernard
Griff Rhys Jones - Graham Sweetley
Paul Bown - Julian Tope
Joanne Pearce - Sandra Brock
Jimmy Nail - Desmond Brock
Dinsdale Landen - Comdr. Matteson
James B. Sikking - Col. Laribee
David Haig - Palatial House Flunkey

HOW DOES THIS FILM TURN OUT TO BE SOMEWHAT WORTHWHILE?

Basically, it's Mike Hodges, Director, who also brought "Flash Gordon" and "The Terminal Man" to the big screen. Hodges' style permeates this entire film, and makes it into a sort of epic comic book fantasy, harmless-nightmare, sort of surreal something. Basically a grand much-ado-about-nothing.

Very funny film, kind of reminded me of Python. Check it out. Its worth a lot more than 55 cents.

I've watched this movie repeatedly and it always makes me laugh. In my family, it is considered a classic. It is full of excellent sight gags as well as memorable, hilarious characters. It's one of those films you will be reminded of repeatedly in life situations (perhaps that's a commentary on my life?). It's goofy, harmless humor.

Saw this film on the premier in London many years from now.
It's as good today!
Totally wacko and wonderful!

Yes, it's British comedy- but not in the Monty Python vein. Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones had a very fruitful partnership for many years writing and performing in a series of "Smith and Jones" television shows, in which they presented exceedingly silly parodies in a completely deadpan manner, and in Morons from Outer Space they have succeeded admirably.

The plot is simple: Four aliens- one of them of average intelligence (by Earth standards) and the other three about as smart as a rock- are out for a joyride when the intelligent one (Smith) gets separated from the ship, and the other three crash it into the Earth. What follows is a broad satire of all the traditional sci-fi conventions along with sly shots at ET, Star Wars, Close Encounters, and no doubt other films as well. The aliens are investigated by scientists, hunted by the military, until finally they find their place as... well, I won't spoil it for you.

I'd never heard of this film until I discovered it playing on a local TV station late one night. I didn't expect much, as sketch comedy rarely translates into feature length films, but Smith and Jones' did a fine job with creating a solid, ridiculous plot that carries the viewer along to the end with plenty of smiles and a few laugh out loud moments as well.