After coming home one evening from a typically bad alien movie premier (See "WeComeInBoredom"), I looked around on Google for a comprehensive site dedicated to alien movies. After not finding one, I took upon myself to categorize the meh movies ("DecentContact") to the amazing ones that even your Mom would enjoy ("NoNeedToBelieve"). Click "Ratings" for full ratings explanation and let me know what movie you'd like to see reviewed next!
Paul: #WeComeInBoredom
This movie is marketed as an alien comedy, an ambitious idea with the only others in the category being Coneheads and possibly Space Balls. I don’t include Mars Attacks or Men In Black, as those have so much more to offer than comedy like action, creativity and overall quality. I get it, we haven’t had a comedy about alien(s) is quite awhile and the 80s and early 90s were littered with them, but plainly put, this movie sucked. I do generally like the two British guys, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, especially Shawn of the Dead, but this was a huge flop.
The best example of why this movie was so bad is the 2nd scene when the two main characters Graeme and Clive are out in the Area 51 area at a diner. After buying a sticker titled “Alien on Board”, being the big nerdy, alien believers they are, they slap it on the back of their RV. Two minutes later they make contact with Paul, the alien, and then freak out and rip the sticker off the RV. At least 10 minutes introducing the stupid sticker and then just rip it off for some quick laugh, which caused no LOLz for me.
The acting was terrible, the action scenes stupid, including unnecessarily blowing up a house in the middle of nowhere, and the writing was even worse. Of all the alien movies I’ve watched this is definitely in the crap pile. This alien definitely came in boredom.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
