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Marshal Dix is to free US president from aliens on the int'l lunar base. A clone has replaced him in The White House. Can Dix prevent an alien invasion?Marshal Dix is to free US president from aliens on the int'l lunar base. A clone has replaced him in The White House. Can Dix prevent an alien invasion?Marshal Dix is to free US president from aliens on the int'l lunar base. A clone has replaced him in The White House. Can Dix prevent an alien invasion?
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Damien Masson
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- (as Damian Mason)
Pierre Edwards
- Lt. Bradford Shitzu
- (as Pierre)
Verona Pooth
- Yetta Pussel
- (as Verona Feldbusch)
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Now I do like spoof movies, when they are funny and done right. There are some funny spoofs around, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety and Loaded Weapon 1 for example, but the spoof genre has also had some excrement such as Disaster Movie and Epic Movie. 2001: A Space Travesty is not as bad as any of the worst of Friedberg and Seltzer. However, that is not saying much, 2001:A Space Travesty is still a terrible movie, being contrived, embarrassing and unfunny and it makes you think what possessed Leslie Nielson to take on this project.
As I said in the review title, the irony in the word "travesty" is correct. To be honest, while hardly clever or original the title is the best asset of this movie, as well as the end credits which was the only time in the entire movie when I cracked a smile, you know immediately there is something wrong when that is the case. The production values are cheap, with the costumes more reminiscent of fancy dress, shoddy camera work, dismal special effects and wobbly sets. The soundtrack is poorly thought out, In the Navy by The Three Tenors especially felt as though it was shoe horned in.
The story is predictable and almost a non-event, the pace didn't draw me in in any way and the direction was decidedly patchy. Also the characters are little more than stereotypes and caricatures and really bad ones at that with names that felt like poor Carry On lampoons. The acting is terrible, yes including from the talented Leslie Nielson. Nielson shows he can be funny as with Naked Gun and Airplane, which are comedy classics in my opinion, but he overacts and mugs shamelessly here which saddened me hugely. Everyone else either overplay, are bland or seem to be playing themselves. Worse is the humour, the film just isn't funny and is filled with the crude and vulgar kind of humour that doesn't come close to the inspired zaniness of the best of the spoof genre. The homages and references to sci-fis such as 2001:A Space Odyssey(one of my favourite films) are obvious and poorly thought out and the script is abysmal and didn't make me laugh one time.
In conclusion, not the worst of the genre but a mess all the same. 2/10 Bethany Cox
As I said in the review title, the irony in the word "travesty" is correct. To be honest, while hardly clever or original the title is the best asset of this movie, as well as the end credits which was the only time in the entire movie when I cracked a smile, you know immediately there is something wrong when that is the case. The production values are cheap, with the costumes more reminiscent of fancy dress, shoddy camera work, dismal special effects and wobbly sets. The soundtrack is poorly thought out, In the Navy by The Three Tenors especially felt as though it was shoe horned in.
The story is predictable and almost a non-event, the pace didn't draw me in in any way and the direction was decidedly patchy. Also the characters are little more than stereotypes and caricatures and really bad ones at that with names that felt like poor Carry On lampoons. The acting is terrible, yes including from the talented Leslie Nielson. Nielson shows he can be funny as with Naked Gun and Airplane, which are comedy classics in my opinion, but he overacts and mugs shamelessly here which saddened me hugely. Everyone else either overplay, are bland or seem to be playing themselves. Worse is the humour, the film just isn't funny and is filled with the crude and vulgar kind of humour that doesn't come close to the inspired zaniness of the best of the spoof genre. The homages and references to sci-fis such as 2001:A Space Odyssey(one of my favourite films) are obvious and poorly thought out and the script is abysmal and didn't make me laugh one time.
In conclusion, not the worst of the genre but a mess all the same. 2/10 Bethany Cox
Leslie Nielsen is one of the most funniest comedians in Hollywood. He should've retired from acting with honour, before starring in this horrible unfunny film!
The jokes were childish, and I squirmed in my seat every time a joke was delivered. It's very sad Leslie has succumbed to this kind of silly nonsense, it was an embarrassment to watch.
I hope Mr Nielsen will go back to his hilarious roots and make more funny movies like the 'Naked Gun' trilogy, and 'Spy Hard'.
The jokes were childish, and I squirmed in my seat every time a joke was delivered. It's very sad Leslie has succumbed to this kind of silly nonsense, it was an embarrassment to watch.
I hope Mr Nielsen will go back to his hilarious roots and make more funny movies like the 'Naked Gun' trilogy, and 'Spy Hard'.
STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs
Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix (Leslie Nielsen) is an appropriately bumbling secret agent who's assigned the task of travelling to the planet Phaebon with Agent Menage (Ophelie Winter) and rescuing the president (Damien Masson) who's been kidnapped by some intergalactic villains.Cue various mishaps and comical encounters.
This Nielsen spoof was originally released in 2000,but it's arrived on these shores four years later.I would have thought there'd be a good opportunity to release it on the back of Nielsen's appearance in the theatrically released Scary Movie 3,but,alas,there you go.It's had a whole lot of bad press,consistent bad reviews and making it,at one point,to a place no lower than #20 at one point on IMDB's very own bottom 100.
I don't want to complain too much of the lengthy wait I've had to endure to watch 2001:A Space Travesty though.As captain Gilder said to Trilling in Under Siege 2,"good things come to those who wait."Also,though quite far from a good thing,2001 has not been worthy of all it's negative publicity.I'm sure if Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck had been headbilling it,it would have got a cinema release by now.
There were some very funny moments,but the rambling,increasingly predictable script made them emerge as rather few and far between.It's a bit too long as well and the plot begins to lack much in the way of cohision.The desperation is more evident with the constant bombardment of obvious and rather gratuitous sexually explicit jokes and yet another resurgence of that 'hidden birthmark' joke,stolen from Nielsen's own Naked Gun 2 and recently used in Rowan Atkinson's Johnny English.But it's a fairly slick presentation,just managing to over-shadow the see-through production values,and if it just manages to make you laugh enough,is just worth the price.And the duration.
For the title it's spoofing,though,it really doesn't send that particular film up much.And that's one of the things I was really looking forward to it for.**
Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix (Leslie Nielsen) is an appropriately bumbling secret agent who's assigned the task of travelling to the planet Phaebon with Agent Menage (Ophelie Winter) and rescuing the president (Damien Masson) who's been kidnapped by some intergalactic villains.Cue various mishaps and comical encounters.
This Nielsen spoof was originally released in 2000,but it's arrived on these shores four years later.I would have thought there'd be a good opportunity to release it on the back of Nielsen's appearance in the theatrically released Scary Movie 3,but,alas,there you go.It's had a whole lot of bad press,consistent bad reviews and making it,at one point,to a place no lower than #20 at one point on IMDB's very own bottom 100.
I don't want to complain too much of the lengthy wait I've had to endure to watch 2001:A Space Travesty though.As captain Gilder said to Trilling in Under Siege 2,"good things come to those who wait."Also,though quite far from a good thing,2001 has not been worthy of all it's negative publicity.I'm sure if Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck had been headbilling it,it would have got a cinema release by now.
There were some very funny moments,but the rambling,increasingly predictable script made them emerge as rather few and far between.It's a bit too long as well and the plot begins to lack much in the way of cohision.The desperation is more evident with the constant bombardment of obvious and rather gratuitous sexually explicit jokes and yet another resurgence of that 'hidden birthmark' joke,stolen from Nielsen's own Naked Gun 2 and recently used in Rowan Atkinson's Johnny English.But it's a fairly slick presentation,just managing to over-shadow the see-through production values,and if it just manages to make you laugh enough,is just worth the price.And the duration.
For the title it's spoofing,though,it really doesn't send that particular film up much.And that's one of the things I was really looking forward to it for.**
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Leslie, Leslie, Leslie, what happened to the days when you asked us to stop calling you Shirley? To the days when you and that Priscilla whatever-her-last-name-is were laughing while walking out of a movie theater playing, "Platoon"? To the days when--
I guess you get the idea. It's not that Leslie Nielson doesn't have the acting ability; it's that the movie is probably the stupidest and worst comedy to come along in my lifetime. It broke dead even with Mystic River in the laughs department: none (unless you count after the movie, in which case Mystic River is way ahead. Academy Awards, ha!). I kept waiting for something funny to happen and the movie to suddenly go good, for everyone to pop out and go, "Hey! It was all just a joke! We only wanted you to think that the movie sucked because then the rest of the movie is great!"
Didn't happen. Avoid at all costs. I mean, I LOVE Leslie Nielson and it still sucked. Oh, well; at least he's not doing porn.
I guess you get the idea. It's not that Leslie Nielson doesn't have the acting ability; it's that the movie is probably the stupidest and worst comedy to come along in my lifetime. It broke dead even with Mystic River in the laughs department: none (unless you count after the movie, in which case Mystic River is way ahead. Academy Awards, ha!). I kept waiting for something funny to happen and the movie to suddenly go good, for everyone to pop out and go, "Hey! It was all just a joke! We only wanted you to think that the movie sucked because then the rest of the movie is great!"
Didn't happen. Avoid at all costs. I mean, I LOVE Leslie Nielson and it still sucked. Oh, well; at least he's not doing porn.
I'm curious: doesn't Leslie Nielsen (once a decent actor) read the scripts of the movies he's playing in anymore? It seems that nowadays all the writers or director of a movie need to do is tell Nielsen: Hey we're gonna make fun of some other movies, interested? And Nielsen would just sit there like, 'yeah'!
Instead of what the title would assume, 2001's main victim isn't A Space Odyssey but the more recent Men In Black. But, having said that, I cannot think of one decent joke relating to that movie. Nor can I tell here what the story is all about... it's got something to do with the president being swapped with a clone, or not, or whatever.
By lack of anything good to offer director Goldstein just throws some lusty women into it, but perhaps it says all that no well-known woman apparently would like to take up the job, so we have to do with an unknown French woman and an unknown German one...
In fact, I don't know of any reason why I should recommend this movie. Some lame jokes are just about OK, but nothing more than a 2/10 if you'd ask me.
Instead of what the title would assume, 2001's main victim isn't A Space Odyssey but the more recent Men In Black. But, having said that, I cannot think of one decent joke relating to that movie. Nor can I tell here what the story is all about... it's got something to do with the president being swapped with a clone, or not, or whatever.
By lack of anything good to offer director Goldstein just throws some lusty women into it, but perhaps it says all that no well-known woman apparently would like to take up the job, so we have to do with an unknown French woman and an unknown German one...
In fact, I don't know of any reason why I should recommend this movie. Some lame jokes are just about OK, but nothing more than a 2/10 if you'd ask me.
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- TriviaThis film continued Leslie Nielsen's streak of playing bumbling characters who find themselves embroiled in absurd situations. This was also his last starring role in a parody film.
- GoofsOn the rocket, the stewardess places a beer bottle down for Dix. In the next shot, the bottle is in a different position.
- Quotes
Richard 'Dick' Dix: [narration] Now I know what it was like to be a Roman candle on the fourth of July, that this hero stuff was not for me. I was ready to get back on the beat, hear the wail of sirens and play with my handcuffs and my gun. Yes, I was ready to plant my flag back in Washington D.C., where every Congressman has the Constitutional right to be a felon. Good old America.
- Crazy creditsCrapper-Dumper .. This is not a Typo Elevator Operator .. Old Man Cranshaw Cross Dresser .. J. Edgar Hoover ... DON'T LEAVE! LOTS MORE WILD AND CRAZY CREDITS TO COME! ... Daily Electricians .. [...] Thomas A. Edison Hey There Lonely Boy .. Ruby and the Romantics Hit Song Swing Your Partner .. Round and Round Famous Painter .. Leonardo Da Vinci ... TEA AND COOKIES FOR AUDIENCE MEMBERS WHO STAY TILL THE END OF THE CREDITS! ... Chief Make-Out Artist .. Sergio "The Bull" Bafungulo ... THIS SPACE FOR RENT ... Special Make Up Effects .. Lon Chaney, Jr. Extras Wrangler .. Annie Bordeau For the Best Strip Clubs in Town Call .. Bart Crabmeister Driven to Insanity Alan Shearman Assistants to the Assistants I.P. Day, Mungoo Ganja, Iva Neuschlong Photocopier De-Blocker .. Jim "I Haven't Got a Clue" Dicktop Lip Service .. Laurie Clamidia Long Distance Runner .. Jed Wheezer Tail Supervisor .. Boris Yeltsin Great Head .. Valerie Dorkfit Foreskin .. Rabbi Shlomo Focukakta The Carpenters .. Karen and Richard Assistant Carpenters .. [...] Jesus of Nazareth Painters .. Vincent van Gogh Plastered .. Buck Livergone Drug Runner .. Emilio Jesus, Estor Miguel Maria Jones Fluffer .. Lola Vivacious Local Shop Keepers .. Dale and Bob Flatbed Weekly Fourth Assistant Directors .. Terrence Halflife, Margaret Pigshoof, Vinnie "The Accountant" Stugazz, Rugsham "Give it to me, Baby?" Singh Memo to Post Supervisor from Producers .. You're Fired Clap Trap .. Tiajuana Sue Ladies Man .. Jock Sinep Polly Grip .. A Denture Aid The Number of the Beast .. 666 ... [TAP-TAP] HELLO-OH? IS THIS ON? [TAP-TAP] ... Really Good Beer .. Anything Brewed in Bavaria Das Kapital .. Karl Marx Really Expensive Whatchamacallit CGI Machine Operator .. Wolfgang "Let's Do It in CGI" Pixelkopf Moldy Cheese Maker .. Hervé Lactose - Bangkok Unit Rikshaw Driver .. Phon Duck Tu Thanks for the Great Weekend, Duck Tu! - Moon Unit Director .. Xtro Isitope First Assistant Director .. Manfred "I Can't Work Under These Zero Gravity Conditions" Fredman Director Of Photography .. System "5/ZXB20-20" - Optical Cyborg First Assistant Cameraman .. Ragstrum ^&*()(%$#!!**&^ (pronounced "Smith") Special Effects Supervisor .. Zujj Al Nushshabah (not to be mistaken with Zujj Al Nushshabah from star cluster ZN5311,ATP187) Location Manager .. Nicky "The Glow Worm" Radium Anti Matter .. The Evil Captain Kirk Minutely Detailed Miniature Spacecraft Never Used .. Timmy "Get a Life" Glueschinoz Space Stuff Consultants .. Stephen Hawkins, Albert Einstein Slime Removal .. Gacrux Alien Residual Disposal, Inc. "Nothing Grosses Us Out" Space Debris Provided By .. The Papua New Guinea Space Agency - Fart Sound Effects Courtesy of .. Franc and Beens Jet Propulsion Laboratories Film Sprocket Hole Puncher .. Yankl "The Knife" Moyle The Producers Want to Thank .. God (for saving our ass) ... FAGITABOUTIT! ... AH...WELL...IT SEEMS THE CATERER FORGOT TO SHOW UP WITH TEA AND COOKIES. SORRY. INSTEAD FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE, WE PRESENT FARTSOUND EFFECTS OUTTAKES... ... The Standard, Everyday Fart The Girlie Fart The Hairy Truck Driver Fart The Squishy Fart The "Thank God, I Just Made It To The Bathroom" Fart The "No, No, That Was Me Getting Up From A Vinyl Couch" Fart The Misfire Fart The Royal Ripper Fart
- ConnectionsFeatured in De wereld draait door: Episode #6.61 (2010)
- SoundtracksThe Blue Danube Waltz
Composed by Johann Strauss
Arranged by Claude Foisy
Performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra
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- 2000.1: A Space Travesty
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- Montréal, Québec, Canada(on location)
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- $45,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $270,813
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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