Well, from the cover of this 2014 sci-fi comedy titled "Revenge of the Spacemen", I have to admit that I believed that the movie might actually have some worth and thus I opted to sit down and watch it. But then as the movie started I saw this was a Troma release, and all hopes just went straight out the window.
I don't like Troma movies, as they are even worse that the stuff The Asylum used to dish out. Sure, I get that Troma makes low budget and amateurish movies, but come on, they are bad beyond reason. And "Revenge of the Spacemen" was no different.
Now I am sure that the people involved in the making of a movie such as "Revenge of the Spacemen" were having fun, no doubt about it, but the end result is just not something that has much appeal to me. When I sit down to watch a movie and invest time in watching it, I want to be properly entertained by a proper movie, and not sit down to watch something that my neighbor could have filmed just as easily with a DV camera.
And yeah, that is exactly what "Revenge of the Spacemen" looked and felt like.
Director Jay Summers and writer Conor Duffy just didn't manage to provide me with anything even close to being entertained, so "Revenge of the Spacemen" was a movie that I just didn't enjoy and couldn't get submerged into.
The acting was dubious, as it usually is in these Troma movies. But hey, if you enjoy these kinds of movies, then you're in for a blast.
The visual effects were next to non-existing. Even the alien creatures were so low budget that it was hard to watch. I mean it was just blatantly and openly latex masks they wore, inarticulate masks at that. And some of the performers didn't even bother to stuff the edges of the masks behind the collars of their outfits, so it was painstakingly obvious that it were cheap Halloween masks. But again, if you enjoy these movies, you're in for a treat.
"Revenge of the Spacemen" is not a movie that I would recommend.
My rating of "Revenge of the Spacemen" lands on a one out of ten stars.
