the audience applauded

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Whoa man, have two words ever described a movie better?! Ironically, one of the characters in the film says just that. And is he ever right! It's gone under several names but in English, it's commonly known as either the UNEARTHLING or POD PEOPLE. Years ago, Mystery Science Theater 3000 tackled this one. And, as usual, struck comedic gold! There are three stories that are supposed to tie everything together. I say "supposed to" because it's not always clear what's going on.STORY 1: A trio of poachers sneak into a darkened forest. However, they witness something crash land. Upon investigating, they discover a cave of eggs and a very unhappy alien. STORY 2: A little boy happens upon one of the eggs and takes it back. It hatches, producing a cute cuddly alien that he annoyingly calls Trumpy. Why? Probably because the writers wanted to cash in on the "lovable Alien" theme started a year earlier by E.T. STORY 3: A rock band goes for a vacation in the woods and... *Sigh* Must I go on? Eventually all three stories collide. And the survivors must protect themselves from the rampaging alien outside. All the while, the boy does his best at hiding Trumpy indoors. Until... This pitiful French/ Spanish co-production has little to recommend it. None of the characters are interesting, the alien is obviously a man (or perhaps a midget) in a suit, the stories are dull, and the ending (though it's supposed to be cute and preachy) just feels so false and tacked on. However, if you're planning to bash it with a 10-ton anvil of wit, then invite over your friends and bash away!!!

"It has everything to do with hurting"."Pod People" is an abysmal film. It not only has the sort of identity crisis that one has a hard time believing (it is, quite literally, a mixture of the evil invaders from space and "E.T."), and it is really painful to sit through. I actually don't think there's one second of solid direction, one second of good acting, one half-decent line of dialogue. It's that terrible.The MST3k episode is wonderful though, featuring some really inspired riffs and skits. It's not one of my favorites, but still a great episode. I have only seen "Pod People" once without the MST3k help and it is genuinely quite impossible to sit through. I fell asleep twice or thrice.I do have to give the movie credit for giving us Trumpy, arguably the most ludicrously designed alien of all time, and by God that kid, Tommy, is the most annoying thing to appear in a film. If I was Trumpy I would have killed that kid much before the girl in the shower.1/10

I love bad movies... but only when they are sooo bad they are entertaining. This movie just stinks. The "alien" is so goofy looking that it's hard to ever pretend that it's anything real. To set the mood, they use so much "atmosphere" (fog) it looks like the woods are on fire most of the time. When the alien kills someone, it appears that all the 4 foot tall hairy thing has to do is touch them and they die. I think they filmed this 'project' over about a 10 month period because the scenery goes from snow to green grass in the same day. They use stop-frame animation to show the wonderful powers of the creature and it makes you feel like you are in a "Gumby" movie. Just plain bad.

I wouldn't say this is the worst movie ever, but I would say it sucks pretty bad. Please don't watch this movie without the help of MST3K. So here's what I guess you'd call the "plot" There are some poachers in a very foggy forest. One of them stumbles upon a cave which came from outer space and crashed nearby. He begins smashing eggs that he found inside the cave. What an idiot. So then an unseen monster comes and kills him. A little kid comes by later and picks up the last un-smashed egg for his animal collection. While all of this is happening the worst pop group I have ever heard is going camping in the woods with their groupie, Laura. The band doesn't like Laura very much, even though she's pretty much the only fan the band will ever have. She ends up dying by falling of a cliff (or maybe the monster pushes her off of the cliff, i don't know.) Anyway, the group ends up going to the house of the little kid. The egg the little kid stole hatches, and here enters Trumpy. Trumpy is a good pod person where as the other monster is a bad pod person. And Trumpy, well he can do magical things. By magical I mean crap. So more people end up dying, and who really cares? In the end Trumpy is abandoned in the woods by the little kid, after the kid pretty much worked his a@@ off to save Trumpy the entire movie. This movie dies short and suckily, just as you would have suspected.I give 2 out of 10 stars for the movie alone and 10 out of 10 stars for the MST3K version. GO MST3K!!!