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A Major Disappointment

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Leslie Nielsen and Patrick Macnee? How could they go so wrong? I've gone out of my way to watch really bad films, and in their own way they're often entertaining. This was painful.Nonexistent plot, spun out for 75 minutes. Little discernible attempt at humour - and believe me I'm the target audience for spoof space film references.There must be an amazing backstory to this film - good cast, but they clearly didn't want to be on that awful set in that forsaken community college. Perhaps this is in fact the funniest film ever - and the joke's on all the viewers who sit through it.

This delightfully goofball "Airplane"-style spoof of ALIEN in particular and lovably lousy 50's sci-fi cheapie clunkers in general has the daffy crew of the spaceship U.S.S. Vertigo -- pompous macho jerk captain Leslie Nielson, obsessive, glory-seeking mad doctor Patrick MacNee ("Knowledge is my candy!"), relentlessly perky, but uptight morale officer Cindy Williams, crude, slobby pervert Gerrit Graham, and writer/director Bruce Kimmel as the meek, cloddish, browbeaten cook/janitor -- discover a mysterious unknown organism on a heretofore uncharted and previously undiscovered barren planet. The initially minuscule organism promptly grows into a large, tubby, one-eyed, red-skinned, slime-dripping man-eating gelatinous humanoid blob which in time-honored hoary B-movie fashion proceeds to devour most of the crew before being jettisoned into space. Kimmel wittily uses the obvious two-cent budget to the film's amiably chintzy advantage: the deliberately tacky special effects, hokey-looking monster, crummy sets, rigidly static and immobile cinematography, broadly hammy acting, cardboard characters, and cornball synthesizer score all serve as amusing dead-on deadpan send-ups of the flat production values and hackneyed conventions that were ripely abundant in those endearingly awful science fiction programmers of yore. More importantly, the frothy, facetious tone strikes just the right note of wide-eyed affection throughout, never seeming either smug or condescending in its cheery poking fun at stupidly generic sci-fi potboilers. Definite comic highlights: a TV news program which shows gorilla extraterrestrials invading Earth, when the ugly thingie heartily belts out the sidesplitting ditty "I Wanna Eat Your Face," and the final shot which hilariously parodies that age-old "it ain't over yet!" inconclusive sequel set-up non-ending cliché. Granted, it's no "Dark Star," but this nifty little number overall rates as a pretty funny and enjoyably asinine tongue-in-cheek outing all the same.

I can not believe anyone could find this movie unfunny. I laughed so hard. There was not a scene in this movie that was not funny. It was a spoof and anyone who watches it must remember just that. It was not intended to be serious. Cindy Williams did a stand up job on this.It was such a spoof of the space movies and truly was the best.I loved it. The monster was great. And the song "I want to eat your Face" hysterical. Their expressions during the song was priceless.I thought the entire cast was first rate. From the beginning to the end the movie was just plain fun. This was such a cute send off with the entire crew did on this creature.

Well... I know some folks herald this as intelligent satire, but... I had a hard time with it. The only redeeming moment was when Dr. Stark, asked if he wants any pie, says "Science is my pie." That pretty much saved the movie for about thirty seconds.The problem was that there were lots and lots of "jokes" that were very flat. Not flat as in deadpan. Flat as in... what was so funny about it? Perhaps if I watched it over and over again it might make me laugh more, but as I had a difficult time getting through it even ONCE, I doubt I'll ever know.I am a big fan of horrible movies, such as "Traxx" starring Shadoe Stevens where a Soldier of Fortune mercenary turns his attention to being a successful cookie maker, and of spoofs like "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra." But I could not find the spark that makes a bad movie great in Spaceship (a.k.a. The Creature Wasn't Nice).Perhaps there was a lack of tension to make the characters pop? So they would seem less like they were just reading lines? Perhaps they all needed more pie, or more science. Or more Science Pie.The world may never know.Support your local piemaker.