While leaning on sci-fi as a delivery mechanism, that space helmet director-screenwriter Ciaron Davies encases himself in proves instead to be the hat of the eviscerating satirist, worn with terrific efficacy and purpose in the endearingly ramshackle, "Invasion Ireland."
In Davies' indie film world, proverbial Little Green Men are actually Little Blue Men fresh off the space boat from Mars. Their invasion of our planet and of our sad little status quos provide earthlings with yet another non-white populous to deride. Self-appointed world leadership reacts by holding out the olive branch to these threatening immigrants, securing peace by offering gainful employment, and much to the chagrin of "First World" populations fearing disruptions to their delicate socio-economic ecosystems. Of course it's all a salacious metaphor for the massive uprooting of real-world Middle Eastern populations we seem to enjoy endlessly bombing -- at least until naturally resulting immigration patterns evoke nationalist outcries from our newly "invaded" homelands.
Like only the best satires know how to do, "Invasion Ireland" eschews selectivity of targets and instead takes its hilarious flamethrower to all earth-bound populations that demonstrate a complicit and collective stupidity. With its searing indictments gleefully packaged in an offbeat, slapstick, and surrealistically lighthearted wrapper evocative of '80s British sitcom "
The Young Ones (1982)," this hour-long film from Ireland again shows that the most authentic satirical voices are rarely hear from the mouths of major studios. - (Was this review of use to you? If so, let me know by clicking "Helpful." Cheers!)
