Product Details

• Actors: Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Paul Bown, James Sikking, Dinsdale Landen
• Directors: Mike Hodges
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: November 20, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005O072
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,648 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Morons from Outer Space" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
A trio of very dense aliens abandons their equally dimwitted pal Bernard (coscripter Mel Smith) and crashes their rented spacecraft in England, where they become pop media icons under the guiding hand of a disgruntled television employee (coscripter Griff Rhys Jones). Bernard eventually finds his way to America, where his claims of interplanetary pedigree land him in an asylum. This satire of science fiction and societal quirks from British television comics Smith and Jones and director Mike Hodges (Croupier) generates its biggest laughs early, when the hapless trio is pitted against the British and American military (James B. Sikking appears briefly as a trigger-happy Yank officer). The remainder quickly dissipates into generic slapstick and feeble pokes at media hype, though Smith and fellow U.K. performer Jimmy Nail (as beer-guzzling spaceman Dez) have some strong individual moments. Smith later directed such films as Bean (1997) and High Heels and Low Lifes (2001). --Paul Gaita

Product Description
Sci-fi meets hilarity in this wildly adventurous comedy that goes where no man—or moron—has gone before. We can now safely conclude that there is no intelligent life in space. Four holiday travelers from the planet Blob have somehow lost control of their rented spaceship and crash-landed on Earth. At first, the military and scientific teams assume they are higher life forms. But not for long. Idiocy is hard to hide. The stranded wayfarers are complete morons, content to drink their green beer, sing ear-splitting pop songs and talk to trash cans, which they assume are the planet's leaders. But not until an enterprising journalist decides to market their dazed innocence and turn them into glitzy superstars do they find their true mission to Earth. With amusing parodies of famous film classics like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and warp-speed laughs, this is one screwball comedy that's out of this world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, December 31, 2002

By A Customer

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars not for everyone, July 12, 2000

By	Lars Bruchmann "shadow040" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Morons From Outer Space [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comedy with a message., May 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Morons From Outer Space [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.....