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- 1985
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 26 m
- 1985
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 26 m
Summary A trio of moronic aliens crash-land on Earth and become celebrities, while a fourth alien, who arrives separately, finds himself ignored.
Directed By: Mike Hodges
Written By: Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith
- 1985
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 26 m
- 1985
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 26 m
Morons from Outer Space
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Summary A trio of moronic aliens crash-land on Earth and become celebrities, while a fourth alien, who arrives separately, finds himself ignored.
Directed By: Mike Hodges
Written By: Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
39
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
50% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Sometimes overly silly, with the kinds of sight gags and brief pastiches that might make for a middling ''Airplane'' imitation; in one unforgivable moment, it shows what happens when a spaceman sneezes. Much of it is better than that, however.
Some slow and vulgar moments aside, it's a minor treat for viewers who don't mind keeping their expectations low. [11 Oct 1985, p.25]
A sporadically funny spoof of aliens-from-outer-space films that begins to run out of fresh ideas after the first 30 minutes.
The gags just aren't very funny, relying overmuch on the usual British understatement...Morons From Outer Space has, by my count, eight laughs (which works out to 62 cents a laugh). [21 Nov 1985, p.C16]
This ineptly combines lamebrain comedy and sci-fi adventure, two of Hollywood's most popular genres of the last decade.
Conceptually, this flop has potential for the satirisation of military responses to an alien threat, but it ís wasted in a loose script whose weaknesses are all the more glaring for the film's inability to exploit the power of absurdity.
From time to time, a movie comes along that is so unconventional, so
weird, so flagrantly negligent of mainstream taste that it will develop a
loyal cult following--"The Rocky Horror Picture Show," now celebrating its
10th profit-filled anniversary, being a good example. This is the kind of
movie the makers of "Morons From Outer Space" set out to produce, but failed
to deliver. But who knows? In Britain, they may eat this stuff up. [12 Nov 1985, p.C5]
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