2001 A Space Travesty (US)
The Most Outer Spaced-Out Comedy Ever!
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 98 mins
Retail Price: $24.95
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
First there was Airplane! then came The Naked Gun series. This time Leslie Nielsen is even more far out than ever in 2001: A Space Travesty, a hilarious comedy that dares to spoof where no one`s spoofed before: on another planet.
When the president of the United States is kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a clone, the police call on Marshal "Dick" Dix of th International Security Force to help rescue him - and quickly, before they clone the rest of the world`s leaders.
With the fate of the world in his clumsy hands, Dix heads to the planet Vegan, a very strange place run by an evil doctor and inhabited by aliens who, having learned to speak English from watching television, all talk like different Hollywood movie stars. After engaging in some freaky lunar socializing, Dix joins forces with sexy officer Cassandre Menage and master of disguise Captain di Pasquale to rescue the saxophone playing president. They return to Washington D.C., and accomplish their mission of replacing the cloned president with the real president. Or do they?
Special Features:
Theatrical Trailers
Video Tracks:
Pan & Scan 1.33:1
Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitle Tracks:
English
CC: English
Directed By:
Allan A. Goldstein
Written By:
Alan Shearman
Starring:
Damien Masson
Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld
Peter Egan
Ezio Greggio
Ophélie Winter
Leslie Nielsen
Casting By:
Nadia Rona
Soundtrack By:
Claude Foisy
Music From:
Johann Strauß
Director of Photography:
Sylvain Brault
Editor:
Gaétan Huot
Production Designer:
Csaba András Kertész
Producer:
Danny Rossner
Hannah Richardson
Jeffrey Konvitz
Werner Koenig
Martin Heldmann
Gary DePew
Luc Campeau
Executive Producer:
Chuck Smiley
Leslie Nielsen
Distributor:
Columbia / Tristar
Your Opinions and Comments
I admit. "The Naked Gun" trilogy was funny to some extent. However, there is absolutely no excuse for this movie. It`s idiotic, poorly done, not funny, boring or in plain words - utter crap.
The video transfer is a butchered fullscreen one. There are no compression signs but the transfer shows some grain and imperfections of the source print. The so called special effects are horrible.
The DD 5.1 soundtrack is ok. The surrounds are used occasionally for sound effects.
The menus are still with music.
There are no extras on the disk.
Bottom line - I don`t know what was I thinking when I rented this movie. Serves me right. I cannot emphasize enough just how bad this movie is. Avoid it at all costs.