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A typical and very British low budget sci-fi comedy from 1985; don't expect much in the way of FX or satire here, as this is more of a quirky character-led work. It marks one of the few cinematic forays for Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, and both are funny, although members of a much larger ensemble cast. The actors are fine here and the situations memorably offbeat, although perhaps not as laugh-out-loud funny as something like CLOCKWISE. I think my favourite moment is the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS spoof.

I remember when MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE it was criticised as being just about the worst British film ever made ! What you mean it`s worse than REMEMBER ME THIS WAY where Gary Glitter plays a tough macho sex god ? I don`t think so .

I will say this movie is very patchy mainly down to the small budget and a dual plot , something that`s not seen either very often or very successfully in film script structure . The scenes featuring Bernard are funny especially the " Are you male or female ? " scene but the ones set in England are slightly tedious and do lack a focus .

Yeah it`s hard to imagine that the director of this made both GET CARTER and FLASH GORDON but surely any self respecting IMDB addict can sit back and enjoy this movie due to the referrances . Let`s see now THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT , a line of dialogue snatched from BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI , oh what`s that movie with Jack Nicolson in a lunatic asylum ? ....

Scarcely in the same league as Verity Lambert's sixties work as the original producer of 'Dr Who', and certainly not the sort of film on which you'd expect to see the name of the director of 'Get Carter' and 'Croupier' (who had intended it merely to be the warm-up for a much more prestigious subsequent project). But his previous film HAD been the lurid remake of 'Flash Gordon', and as he himself observed the money's all up there on the screen.

Pretty bad, but not quite the car crash that usually ensues when TV stars are let loose on the big screen, and there's definitely a mild attempt at satire; such as the depiction of the bumbling authorities and the perils involved in sneezing in a spacesuit.

I first saw 'Morons From Outer Space' on cable television when I was 12 years old. (1986.) Recently I spotted it for sale on DVD, and what, with a price tag of only 10 dollars, thought I couldn't pass up owning this cinematic masterpiece.

So how does it look now that I am older and more sophisticated? (Or at least just older...)

Its 100 times funnier now. I actually GET the jokes I didn't when I was 12 because I have seen the other movies they reference (Cuckoo's Nest, etc.) I also have a better eye for subtly and timing. The other IMDB reviewer here was right-there is a lot more to this film than there appears to be at first viewing. Not to mention the nice part where the Aliens are brought 'down to earth,' metaphorically speaking.

If you have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail 2000 times and are sick to death of it, well, go and watch it again. But after that, see Morons From Outer Space. Every scene in it is like a small sketch and will actually get funnier with repeated viewings, much like Python.

Favorite scenes: The 'therapy' at the psycho ward with the Iron Maiden record, and the sneeze inside the space helmet. Classic!

In some ways, Morons From outer Space can be seen as being way ahead of its time, an uncannily prophetic attack on the celebrity culture that has become so prevalent today, where unexceptional members of the public are catapulted to superstar status by the media; this doesn't change the fact that the film is utter garbage, the film's primary gag—that not all alien life-forms are intelligent—stretched incredibly thin over an hour and a half.

Unlike their fellow Not The Nine O'Clock News comedian, rubber-faced Rowan Atkinson, tubby Mel Smith and dour Griff Rhys Jones completely fail to make their particular brand of humour work on the big screen, the result being a disaster of galactic proportions. The problems with the film are numerous—poor choice of director, lame spoofery of other movies, Jimmy Nail—but perhaps the biggest mistake of all is that Smith and Jones, who worked so well together on the telly, remain separated for most of the running time, their unique chemistry sorely lacking.

This is simply and unfunny film to me. I didn't even get a slight giggle out of what I saw in the beginning... so I fast-forwarded, played & watched, fast-forwarded again and didn't find anything to capture my interest at all and never did I laugh nor did I give a slight giggle.

I like quite a few nonsensical, stupid comedies but this film just didn't do it for me. I also have enjoyed quite a number of British comedies from TV shows to movies but this film is just lame to me. Morons in Outer Space is an appropriate title for the film but they are unfunny morons.

The film isn't completely 100% trash that's why I'm giving it 2 stars out of 10 instead of rating it with a 1 star but it's not a good film to me.

2/10

It's not often that you see a film that is pure, unmitigated crap. This is one of them. (Hell, even the 2/10 rating is generous)

The humour used is film is unspeakably infantile. Some of if, though, is very much of its time. There are some sly digs at the cult of celebrity and Britain in the 1980s.

The only thing in this film that did it for me was Mel Smith's slightly sympathetic role as the unfortunate alien, Bernard. While we're on the subject, I don't even know why Smith, and his co-star, Griff Rhys-Jones ever bothered making this piece of trash in the first place!!!

One major turn-off for me was the rather gaudy, tacky, cheaply-made look of the film. In fact, the whole thing looks rather false and plastic!!

Compared to "Morons From Outer Space", director Mike Hodges' previous effort of the decade, "Flash Gordon" look like a Bafta award-winning masterpiece.

If you've got nothing else better to do, I really would NOT recommend renting this film out!!

In director Mike Hodges's only openly comedic film to date, Anlgo-American pop culture of the '70s and early '80s is mercilessly lampooned. From "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) to David Bowie as the avatar of Ziggy Stardust, nothing escapes a satirical mauling by Hodges and writers/actors Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith. On the surface, much of the humor appears to be at the level of Benny Hill, but it is actually much more subtle in its subtext, addressing the mindlessness of celebrity worship, the nature of friendship, the willful self-delusion that can arise from one's own expectations, and the fleetingness of fame. With satire more subtle than seen in similar, American films of the same period (e.g., "This is Spinal Tap" (1984)), "Morons from Outer Space" may not be to everyone's taste. I will be the first to admit that British humor is an acquired taste for many of us non-Brits, but I found this film far funnier than many recent American comedies that have received rave reviews ("Meet the Parents" (2000), "Something about Mary" (1998), "Analyze This" (1999), etc.). Any viewer willing to expend the effort to actually concentrate on what is going on and being said in the film will be amply rewarded. The most difficult part of viewing this movie is finding it, a problem with many of Hodges's works. Rating: 7/10.

If you are expecting a film called Morons from Outer Space to somehow be incredibly deep and fulfilling, you're approaching it all wrong.

This film presents exactly what it sets out to present: a campy, hilarious comedy without pretense. Reminiscent of films like Crime Wave and even the Pink Panther films, it is well acted by a great cast.

Don't go into this film expecting the answers to life, the universe and everything (that's a different story). Watch this movie for fun and check your higher intellect at the door.

Smith and Jones, who have long had great on-screen chemistry in television, are strangely separated for the majority of this film... living in two separate sub-plots.

Watching the film, you would think they must have had a moderately high budget, but I have a feeling they just made good use of what they had.

Don't discount this movie based solely on the other reviews here. I personally have laughed out loud so much I've had to pause it. You have to pay close attention and listen to everything to get the funniest bits.

Goodness knows here are many worse, and dumber, comedies out there, but its truly a shame that Smith and Jones didn't put this script through some more refinement, and hired a veteran comedy director (one who has a sense of timing), before blowing their chance at international fame. The main problem with the film is it tries to do to many things and use too many comedic styles at once. On one hand it tries to satirize our celebrity focused culture, while on another it tries to send up the conventions of science fiction films (and films in general)a la the Zuckers. At the same time that its trying to juggle those concepts, its also trying telling a story that could have been inherently funny on its own, without the distractions of the slapstick and the parodies. The idea that the first aliens to openly visit Earth are here by accident simply because they're too stupid to pilot, let alone understand the workings of, their rented spacecraft had great potential, but the movie is too distracted by everything else it tries to do for it to work. Despite its problems, there are some genuine laughs to be had here, and its well worth a watch.

Why does anyone think movies like this need to he made? If that's the best you can do get out of the motion picture business.

Morons from Outer Space is ridiculous. The humour, at first glance, is very low-brow. Look beneath the surface, and the movie is rife with satire and irony. The characters are absurd, but believable in the context of their world. The real triumph of the film are the subtlety of much of the gags. It takes familiar themes of human life and extrapolates them to their most ridiculous conclusion. It is extremely silly, but I never tire of watching it.

British science fiction "comedy" about some very human like aliens coming to Earth and becoming celebrities. Yawn! I just don't understand how British TV comedy was so funny in the 1980's but it really struggled when applied to the big screen. Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones were brilliant in the TV shows Not the Nine O'clock News and Alas Smith and Jones but here they are just embarrassing. Jimmy Nail was a household name playing Oz in the TV comedy series Auf Wiedersehen Pet, sadly he plays the same Geordie character here but again it's embarrassing. Terrible, moronic movie.

A comedy should make you laugh this fails miserably,i didnt laugh once.yet it has a great supporting cast,but the script wastes the talent involved.yet another British flop.a movie then about morons and only morons will enjoy this tedious turkey.1 out of 10

Ugh. MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE is a chore to finish. I've now seen it twice and both times I lost total interest and played games on my phone for about 15 minutes or so in the middle of the movie. It challenges you to watch it from start to finish and I failed each time. It's 90 near insufferable minutes of juvenile gags and thoroughly unlikeable characters. Many of the worst movies have a charm that I love but comedies don't often reach that level of "so-bad- it's good". They're so bad at being intentionally funny that it becomes almost painful to witness. Let's start with the "plot": four human aliens are wandering lost through the universe. For whatever reason, they get tired of the one named Bernard (Mel Smith, who I only recently realized was the Albino in THE PRINCESS BRIDE) and abandon him, leaving him locked outside of the main ship on the spaceball court while they bail in the smaller shuttle. Crashing immediately on Earth, the three aliens…Desmond (Jimmy Nail), Sandra (Joanne Pierce), and Julian (Paul Bown)…are taken by the British government and discovered to be absolute fools. A low-level TV news employee (Griff Rhys Jones) bumbles his way behind government lines and gains access to the aliens, helping them to make an escape. Once they're on the outside, he becomes their manager and tours the nation with them as some sort of garbage rock band or something. Meanwhile, Bernard is determined to reconnect with his fellow idiots.

The movie aspires to be a spoof of popular science fiction titles with nods to ALIEN, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. But spoofs are funny so I refuse to acknowledge this as one. My disgust stems from the fact that the movie tries so hard to be zany. I hate failed zaniness. We're talking gags like Bernard's conversation with a roadside trashcan he believes to be a dominant life form. Or his fumbling to scratch his nose through his space helmet before a sneeze covers his faceplate in a violent blast of snot. It always takes the easy route, opting for lamest of slapstick humor or the corniest dialogue. The writing, from co-writers Smith and Jones, is atrocious. The aliens come a planet known as Blob. Desmond proudly shows off a piece of alien technology: a pen. You get it everyone? They're morons! It's a joke! Seriously though, MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE feels like a movie for children, but kids aren't going to get the references. And what about scenes like the one where Bernard is rescued from his isolation by hitchhiking with an alien who looks like a mummified corpse (one of the few funny moments in the movie)? A mummified corpse who was hoping for "special payment" for the ride until he discovering Bernard is male and ejecting him into space. Dead creepers don't really have a place in a kids' movie. Who is this movie for and why are we supposed to care?

There isn't a single character I care about in this movie. I have no idea who the main character is supposed to be. It might be the three aliens who become a travelling rock band. But they're horrible people, so that can't be right. They're ignorant and selfish. And Sandra's singing, that the aliens' musical career seems contingent on, is ear-splitting. She's horrible but the movie acts as if she's a phenomenal talent and we're expected to go along with it. On the subject of the aliens' musical tour, did anyone else get a Katy Perry Super Bowl halftime show vibe? The aliens dress in colorful costumes and ride out onto the stage in an enormous toy spaceship. Just me? Anyway, no, I didn't care about them. Bernard? Maybe. He's portrayed as a victim. Ditched by his fellow aliens. Nearly sexually assaulted by a space zombie. Hit by a car, assumed to be a raving lunatic, and committed to an asylum. And all he wants is to be rich and famous like the others. I don't know. I can't really stand any of them, especially Desmond who can be best described as Cousin Eddie from NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION (if he were a British alien). Because the movie never wrangles my interest, it's quick and easy to forget. It's been less than 24 hours since I last watched it and it's already fading from my memory like I failed to get it's parents to make out at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.

Final nail in the coffin: if you make it all the way to the end of the movie, the credits play out over an 80's pop title song written in part by Mel Smith and performed by the Morons themselves. So…have fun with that.

There's a few chuckles in this sci-fi comedy about earth's first alien visitors being essentially a bunch of uneducated space truckers. Mel Smith co-wrote and stars in the film and somehow managed to snag respected British director Mike Hodges to helm the film. The picture was also shot by ace cinematographer Phil Meheux, who's done everything from multiple James Bond pictures to "The Smurfs" to "The Long Good Friday". However, the concept likely would have worked better as a short film or SNL skit than a feature length film and the plot drags on far too long. Worth a look, but nothing special.

I had always heard that this was a terrible film but I recently decided to watch it anyway. It seems that the reports I heard were pretty accurate. It made me wonder if Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones were as good as they seemed back in the 80's. They were key players in Not the Nine O'Clock News and the stars of Alas Smith & Jones so how in hell could they have been responsible for writing the screenplay for Morons from Outer Space? It seems inconceivable that at no point could they have not seen that this was an utterly unfunny script. To be fair to them, they are not alone – in Britain we have a tradition of successful TV comedy stars making pathetic movies. It seems Smith and Jones were simply living down to expectations.

The story is about four aliens who land on earth; the catch is that they are utterly stupid. That's more or less it. This could certainly be described as a high concept movie or a one-joke movie if you prefer. The problem is that the joke isn't really very good and there are no actual laughs that I can remember. The writing is very bad it has to be said. It is watchable, I will give it that; and I sure have seen worse but it really is sort of complete crap at the same time.

Wacky things happen when inept aliens crash land near london. A very british, 1980's sense of humor. British royalty jokes. Some fun sight gags. How we treat our celebrities, whether deserved or not. The group of aliens from planet blob seems to be a very ordinary group. Keep an eye out for james sikking, as colonel laribee; he was better known as doogie howser's dad, and pelican brief. Also miriam margolyes..she was in the harry potters, the giant peach, and miss fisher mysteries. The film is entertaining, just not that hilarious. And the plot isn't easy to follow. As one of the reviewers points out, it's funnier the second time you see it. If you bother. This should have been a cult film but it doesn't quite get there. The musical numbers were just annoying, and really slowed it down. First by colonel laribee, and later by sandra. Film directed by mike hodges. A brit director who did get carter, and several sci fi films. Story by griff rhysjones and mel smith, who also have roles in the film. They had appeared together for years on not the nine o'clock news. The issue here is clearly a weak script; they should have brought in someone to soup it up. Some good stuff, but could have been so much better.

This movie is a mixed bag and more than a little disappointing. The well-known Brit TV comedy pair from Alas Smith and Jones (Mel Smith and Gryff Rhys-Jones) co-star here but sadly have almost no scenes together. The story concept is that aliens have landed on Earth who are just not very bright. Earthlings look to them for technological answers to our problems and/or the wisdom of higher beings, but, well, they're just not very bright, especially having mislaid their leader (Mel Smith) the one of them with half a clue. He spends half the movie trying to catch up with his group, although the script gives him very little interesting to do along the way. Meanwhile, the aliens have been revealed to the public and create a media sensation, leading greedy music management types to attempt to cash in on their fame, despite their having no talent, in addition to being just not very etc. etc. If it sounds like a one joke movie it is, and it works its one joke to death while generating few laughs. The result is rather slap-dash and unsatisfying - there are a few funny bits scattered here and there, but there seems to be the potential for a much better and funnier Brit Com in this concept than we ultimately get. I wanted to love this movie based upon the cast (musician Jimmy Nail also appears) and the title, but I didn't and I warn anybody considering watching it to lower expectations drastically.

A lot of people were deeply disappointed by this film, and it shows in the cruel ratings and the film's horrible reputation. I think that's mainly because the comedic duo Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones appear SEPARATELY here and not with their typical style of humour. Another weakness is that while this film has an overarching plot, it's really more like a sequence of independent comedy sketches, unfortunately ending with one of the weakest. Judging it as a feature film, it comes across as if it had ADHD. I believe if it had been published as a four-part TV serial it would have received far better ratings.

Having adjusted your expectations accordingly, you can expect to be entertained by this film. Science fiction productions involving aliens generally have the problem that they need to make them similar to humans so they can be played by human actors, and to somehow gloss over the communication problem. This film's approach is simply to poke fun at the usual cheap solutions and take them to an extreme. The aliens crashing their mobile space home ('podule') on the M1 motorway just north of London are English speaking lower class morons from the planet Blob. They even use the same alphabet, and it is clear the only reason they spell differently is that they are dyslexic. Initially there are still communication problems, but they lie elsewhere.

Various parts of the film are excellent spoofs of various films or genres, not just science fiction. Overall I found it quite enjoyable. As the last third is rather weak, I am unlikely to rewatch it more than once or twice, which would make it a 7 on my scale. But for the quality of some of the gags in the first half (M1, Wurlitzer) I raise that to an 8. I can understand why some people rate this film a 6, but lower than 5 as an AVERAGE rating is absurd.

That said, I am likely to rewatch the first half up to "Ow! What did you do that for?" (just after the middle of the film) more often than the second half.

The story is terrible, the acting is poor, the premise is outrageous, and it's still worth watching. If you're not into slapstick or British sense of humor, of course you're not going to like it. Even though I wasn't in love with that particular genre, I still laugh at this every time.

It is called "Morons from Outer Space", I don't know why anyone would be surprised when that's what the movie ends up being about. The characters say and do stupid things, because that's who they are supposed to be. Sure, there are cheap laughs, but what is so terrible about that? I wouldn't exactly call it a family film, but for pg-13, you could do a lot worse. I don't recall very many swears apart from one "distinct" one. There is a short moment of full frontal with a dude, however.

It's worth giving a shot.

For me, the most painful type of movie to sit through is a comedy that doesn't make me laugh. MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE is just such a movie. I didn't laugh even once.

The humor is forced and juvenile, encompassing toilet jokes, bodily-function gags, third-rate slapstick, a Broadway-like musical number, and pitiful, obvious attempts at satire. MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE makes 1981's CHARLIE CHAN AND THE CURSE OF THE DRAGON QUEEN seem like comedy gold.

In 1990, Mel Smith would direct THE TALL GUY, one of the funniest comedies I've ever seen. In 1985, however, the man still had a way to go--a long way.