Movie Review : Alien Trespass (2009)

•Genre: Comedy, Drama
•Running Time: 90 min.
•Director: R.W. Goodwin
•Writer: James Swift, Steven P. Fisher
•Cast: Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Robert Patrick, Jody Thompson, Dan Lauria, Aaron Brooks, Sarah Smyth, Andrew Dunbar, Sage Brocklebank, Jonathan Young

Synopsis

Set in 1957, "Alien Trespass" chronicles a fiery object from outer space that crashes into a mountaintop in the California desert, bringing the threat of disaster to Earth. Out of the flying saucer escapes a murderous creature--the Ghota--which is bent on destroying all life forms on the planet. A benevolent alien from the spaceship, Urp, inhabits the body of Ted Lewis--a local astronomer--and with the help of Tammy, a waitress from the local diner, sets out to save mankind.

Movie Review

Alien Trespass (2009)

Monsters, Aliens and Nostalgia

A charmingly sentimental but ultimately pointless hommage to the sci-fi classics of yesteryear, “Alien Trespass” proves only that while styles and technology have moved on, the affection for corn is everlasting.

Spearheading this retro revival is Eric McCormack as a prissy astronomer whose cardigan-sweatered body is co-opted in the first act by a foil-wrapped alien. “My name is Urp,” he announces to a perky diner waitress (a scene-stealing Jenni Baird).

“Would you like some Rolaids?” she inquires brightly, demonstrating the script’s notion of humor and her own deadpan skills. But as Urp tracks a tentacled beastie by means of the sticky remains of its human dinners, we wait in vain for the director, R. W. Goodwin, to display more than just fan-boy obsession. Substituting period accuracy — a keening theremin, a rubbery monster and a cast of 10s — for ideas, he and his writers (James Swift and Steven Fisher) stay well clear of the mushroom-clouded corners of the American psyche.

As a result the cast is compelled to play along without wink or subtext, a skill at which the women excel. Fortified with Cross-Your-Heart technology and gorgeous makeup, Ms. Baird and Jody Thompson (as the scientist’s silky, hot-to-trot wife) act their male colleagues into the margins. Compared with wrangling foundation garments and seamed stockings, besting monsters is a breeze.

“Alien Trespass” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). A phallus-shaped monster and a human-shaped alien.

CREDIT : MRQE SITE