The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I guess I love this bad film because I caught it on its' initial release in a drive-in on a hot summer night in 1978, well provisioned with a bag of Colombian Gold Buds and a couple bottles of Boone's Farm. We'd seen a still of the stop-motion animation scene in Starlog Magazine, and were quite curious. Wonderfully dreadful and delirious, the animated sequence at the beginning of the film is really the only thing this film had to recommend it. David Carradine's "Deathsport" was worse than this, as I recall, but it's not as good as Marjoe Gortner's "Starcrash"...

IHE references for the win! Anyways, the movie sucks. Jokes aside, it's terrible. It's charming in its terribleness, but it still stinks. How they managed to pull off stop motion "naked turtle aliens" and so many explosions with next to no budget is a mystery of the highest level. Seriously did they happen to have a butt-load of explosives just lying around? And did they ask for car donations?Doesn't matter. Still stinks. Funny, yes. Silly, yes. Good? No. Very far from good. Though it is a fun watch if you are bored, drunk, smoking weed, because if you are doing all that, you will probably forget you're watching one of the worst movies of all time.

This movie is seriously confusing, scenes that don't seem to belong together follow each other without transition or explanation. Who are these people? Why are they here? What i going on? No one knows. On top of that, the special effects are laughable, the characters are ill defined and the acting is bad.But, looking beyond all these criticisms, and they are valid, believe me, there is actually a rather watchable movie. We have the story of Billy who is turned into a monster that wanders the streets shooting things with a laser gun. Kind of like a sci-fi version of a werewolf story where the protagonist does not know he is the monster. Not to mention that the aliens that one would naturally assume to be evil, seem to be some kind of police officers chasing down the monster, a fun take on things I say. And of course, the whole thing is really rather campy which is appropriate. An added bonus on my copy were the trailers for several campy looking old movies.

Man, what a bad movie! There I said, I'd say it again if I had to. Why oh why did Leonard Maltin give it 2 1/2 stars out of 4? Generosity? The plot is nonexistent and the dialogue seems to fluctuate between unfunny humor and stilted exposition. In many scenes, we get actors standing in an awkward line while they talk. Acting by most of the cast is pretty wooden, especially the main actor who plays Billy. Too bad Roddy McDowall only gets two short scenes as a doctor. They even spelled his name wrong. Tsk, tsk, it violates ape law! Keenan Wynn, though good, is wasted as the crazy grandpa. And who in the world was that "tan man with jacket?" Some sort of man in black? Well, Will Smith he's not. Definitely not Tommy Lee Jones! Did anyone honestly believe that Eddie Deezen was convincing as a bully? The only thing this movie has going for it are the nifty stop-motion alien effects. The aforementioned laser gun looks good, though improbably large for a human arm in my opinion. Did anyone else think the green make-up made Billy look like Jim Carrey from THE MASK? I did like the ending however, since in my opinion there wasn't anything likable about Billy in the first place. However, even the ending was screwed up. I feel that the last scene went on a few minutes too long before the credits started rolling. Let me guess... padding it out to make the film feature-length? MST3K tackled this one and came up with one of their best episodes. So please, gentle viewer, hunt down this movie only if Mike and the Bots are riffing on it!