Alien Space Avenger

HEY EVERYBODY ITS ME, (4) and today we review .... anal space avengers .....wait ...wrong film .....

so ...

here we have everyones favorite 1989 classic sci fi movie that everyone remembers right ? ..... right ? .... anyone ? .... hmmmm well apparently this one flew well under the radar BUT in fact isnt half bad .....kind of runs along the lines of "attack of the killer tomatoes" kind of vibes in the comedy sense .... its got that self aware feeling of the creators knew not to take it too seriously or it would ruin everything about this film ... and it would have 100 % ..... so letting it breath as a sci fi comedy really plays to its advantage here ...other wise the story would have fallen flat and the acting would have been in serious need of night classes at the local theater ...

over all its a decent ode to the comics it was story lined into ....the old school 1930-50's styled action comics , a more wholesome era of comics where half the crap was SO BORING !!!!!!!!! But also aliens landing taking hosts... fighting the super hero ...AND ...literally shooting everything that moves lol.... good god people who gave them a gun license ?????....because they are RALLY misusing it , they didnt practice gun safety one time !!! I mean always point down when not using the gun !!! ...

the alien FX are pretty cool i must say, from the aliens them selves to the exploding body parts and the regrowing of said body parts the FX team did a fantastic job .....

the music however .... is what happens when you buy the latest in casio keyboard technology from the 80's and push the "demo" button .... why ... i mean ... chances are what i just said is 95% probably what actually DID happen .... so ... never mind .......

as a film on whole it was okay, had alot of what made 80/90's films great ... boobs blood and explosions ....and monsters ....so it deserves a solid score for that alone BUT it also does have a pretty well paced story, HOWEVER lacks alot of cohesive explanations aka plot holes everywhere SO if you ignore that stuff ... eh im sure youll enjoy it ....

taking it for the era its made ill give it a 7/10 ....

A group of four aliens escape from prison and hide here on the planet Earth during the 1930s. After finding some guns and shooting people by the room-full, they decide to go back to their ship for a while(?). Fifty years later some construction workers dig up their ship, and they start killing again. Eventually some guy bases a comic book on them, and they think that it's been made by the aliens that chased them to Earth.

The storyline is actually a bit better than it sounds, but not by much. They kill plenty of people and there are a couple of topless scenes, but nothing to really put this above the usual 1980s crap movies.

Four alien prisoners crash on Earth and inhabit the bodies of some 1930s teens. When an alien bounty hunter comes looking for them, the aliens hide in their spaceship for the next 50 years. Cut to the 1980s and a construction crew unearths the ship and releases the aliens still in their 30s human form. They head to NYC to get weapons and plutonium to fix their ship. They also catch the eye of Matt (Kirk Fogg), a comic book artist who makes these outcasts he sees briefly once the main characters of his new comic and his wild imagination depicts them as alien terrorists inhabiting the bodies of folks from the 30s. He's good! Of course, the aliens see this comic and get all angry. And, as if all these coincidences weren't enough, the bounty hunter alien inhabits Matt's girlfriend Ginny (Gina Mastrogiacomo).

This tongue-in-cheek sci-fi flick won me over about midway through when two aliens descend upon a nuclear power plant and shoot over 30 people in the process. You have to love a film with so little respect for safety workers. Richard Haines directed this after SPLATTER UNIVERSITY (1984) and CLASS OF NUKE 'EM HIGH (1986) and his skills have improved somewhat; dramatically compared to SPLATTER. Despite not being made for Troma, the aroma is still there in the splatter, exploding heads, random nudity and slimy aliens. Lead Fogg looked so familiar and hitting the IMDb reminded me he was the host of the early 90s Nickelodeon game show LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE. Mastrogiacomo's next role, believe it or not, was a supporting turn in GOODFELLAS (1990), making one hell of a back-to-back movie role trivia. Robert Prichard is the lead bad alien and he was also in NUKE 'EM HIGH as Spike. Look for Jaime Gillis in a small role and a shot of the Roxy 4 movie theater offering VAMPIRE HOOKERS, DOLEMITE, HI-RIDERS and RUBY on the marquee.

Just when you think the 1980s don't have any more pleasant surprises to offer. When you assume that every hidden treasure has been discovered, and all the remaining unseen horror/Sci-Fi flicks are boring and worthless amateur SOV-movies that truly deserve their status of obscurity. Exactly then you stumble upon "Alien Space Avenger"; - a totally chaotic and insanely demented blast of B-movie like only the 80s could spawn them!

Make no mistake, "Alien Space Avenger" is bad. Really, really bad. We're talking nonsensical plot, complete and utter absence of coherence or logic, zero suspense or atmosphere, total lack of character development, hysterically bad acting performances, and painfully absurd dialogues. True lovers of 80s trash know they needn't worry, though, because these exact same flaws also form the biggest fun-factors in a film like "Alien Space Avenger". And, on top of all this, there's also plenty of extreme violence, gooey special effects, gratuitous nudity, distasteful humor, and a non-stop spitfire of random craziness.

"Alien Space Avenger" shamelessly borrows gimmicks and plot elements from crowd-pleasing favorites like "Night of the Creeps", "The Hidden" and "Strange Invaders". Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there are far worse 80s movies to get your inspiration from. In 1939, four fugitive alien criminals crash with their space capsule on earth, just outside a small redneck town. Because they are being pursued by an intergalactic bounty hunter - the Space Avenger - they seek refugee in the bodily shells of four random and typically 1930s teenagers on their way to the movies. They need weapons, as well as plutonium to refuel their ship, and for that they kill a whole bunch of people. When their search turns out fruitless, they hide into their capsule again for fifty years. In the late 80s, although still dressed like kids from the 30s, the quartet goes on a new quest for weapons and plutonium, ... and again kill a whole bunch of people! Life in the eighties is extra challenging, however, since they are surrendering to their "human" desires - like alcohol and sex - and they suspect the Space Avenger is still on their tail, only now pretending to be a cheap comic-book artist!

If you think the above summary is already pretty bonkers, then trust me ... it even gets crazier! Particularly fans of body-melting must put "Alien Space Avenger" on their wish-list, but honestly everyone with a fondness and a big heart for 80s camp are guaranteed to love this film. Quite frankly, you must be a complete grinch to dislike it. The unearthly beautiful and sexy Gina Mastrogiacomo depicts a dreamy 80s heroine. She became somewhat famous after her supportive role in "Goodfellas", but she died tragically young due to a bizarre and extremely rare infection of the heart. Don't think too much about the dumbness of the script, or become too annoyed by the supermassive holes in the plot and logic. In fact, my advice would even be to switch off all brains functions entirely, and just enjoy how "spaced out" this is!

Simplistic, pragmatic, tedious and unforgivably boring. It's very difficult to make a good movie out of a conversation - which is really all this is. I kept waiting for there to be some real action. Never happened. Don't even bother with this one!