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DVD Release

  • Release Date: 2002
  • Widescreen (1.85:1)
  • cc
  • Dolby Digital Surround Sound

  • Rating: Star
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Sci-Fi Comedy, Alien Invasion Films
  • Themes: Technology Run Amok, Robots and Androids, Benign Aliens
  • Director: Patrick Johnson
  • Main Cast: Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, J.J. Anderson, Gregg Berger
  • Release Year: 1990
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

This slapstick parody of space movies chronicles the riotous exploits of a group of dim-bulbed, misguided aliens under the mistaken impression that they are supposed to invade the Earth after they hear a rebroadcast of Orson Welles' notorious "War of the Worlds" one Halloween night. Thinking they are late, they rush in with their ramshackle spaceship and end up in Big Bean, Illinois, a peaceful midwestern town. Naturally after they announce they want to kill the "Earth scum," the residents want to kill them. Fortunately, the town sheriff and his daughter try to keep the moronic Martians safe and help their captain get them safely back in space. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

  • Douglas Barr - Sheriff Sam Hoxly
  • Royal Dano - Old Man Wrenchmuller
  • Ariana Richards - Kathy Hoxly
  • J.J. Anderson - Brian "Duck"
  • Gregg Berger - Steve W. Klembecker

Wayne Alexander - Vern; Joe Alaskey - Dr. Ziplock; Fred Applegate - Russell Pillsbury; Jimmy Briscoe - Capt. Bipto; Debbie Lee Carrington - Dr. Ziplock; Tony Cox - Pez; Patrika Darbo - Mrs. Vanderspool; James Eustermann - Clown; Adam Hansley - Pig Kid; Justin Henry - Dody; Patrick Johnson - Commander and Enforcer Drone; Bruce Lanoil - Pez; Tommy Madden - Giggywig; Kent Minault - Dumb Guy; Barry O'Neill - Clown Kid; Rose Parenti - Old Wife; Tony Pope - Giggywig; Hal Riddle - Old Guy; Casey Sander - Radio Announcer; Kirk Thatcher - Spiff; Ryan Todd - Sid Ghost; Glen Vernon - Old Guy; Tonya Lee Williams - Ernestine; Jeff Winkless - Capt. Bipto; William Holmes - Dumb Guy; Kevin Thompson - Blaznee/Voice of Blaznee

Credit

Patrick Johnson - Director; Patrick Johnson - Screenwriter; Michael McClure - Songwriter; Kirk Thatcher - Songwriter; James L. Carter - Cinematographer; Frank Ceglia - Special Effects; Luigi Cingolani - Producer; Criswell and Johnson Effects - Special Effects; Chava Danielson - Set Designer; Seth Gaven - Editor; Daniel Gross - Editor; Sanja Milkovic Hays - Costume Designer; John Knoll - Special Effects; Richard J. Lawrence - Songwriter; Perpetual Motion Pictures, Inc. - Animator; Spiro Razatos - Stunts; David E. Russo - Composer (Music Score); David E. Russo - Musical Direction/Supervision; David E. Russo - Songwriter; Suzanne Sanders - Makeup; Tony Tremblay - Production Designer; Whiz-Bang Effects - Special Effects; George Zecevic - Executive Producer; Caroline Pham - Associate Producer; David Friendly - Songwriter; John S. Curran - Producer; Scott Lawrence Alexander - Art Director; Scott Lawrence Alexander - Screenwriter

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Spaced Invaders
Directed by Patrick Read Johnson
Produced by Luigi Cingolani
Written by Patrick Read Johnson
Scott Lawrence Alexander
Starring Ariana Richards
Kevin Thompson
Tony Cox
Music by David Russo
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) April 27 1990 (USA)
Running time 100 min.
Language English
Budget NA
IMDb profile

Spaced Invaders is a 1990 science fiction comedy directed by Patrick Read Johnson and starring Tony Cox, Royal Dano and a young Ariana Richards.

Plot

As the armed forces of the planet Mars fight a vast interstellar war under the direction of imperious "Enforcer Drones", the idiotic crew of a small Martian spaceship intercepts a rebroadcast of Orson Welles' 1938 The War of the Worlds radio dramatization. Mistaking this for the real thing, they land the ship in a podunk, drought-stricken farming community (Big Bean, Illinois) and ineptly attempt to conquer Earth. Because it is Halloween, their appearance is taken to be very good costumes, except by a handful of locals who come to realize the truth, among them the town sheriff, his young daughter (Richards), and a crotchety elderly farmer named Wrenchmuller (Dano). In a comedy of errors, the Martians eventually realize they have made a horrible mistake, but the intransigence of their ship's resident Enforcer Drone threatens to cause a mass catastrophe. The sympathetic humans manage to destroy the Drone, and help the grateful "invaders" return to space.

Influences

The title of the flim is a play on the video game Space Invaders.

During the end title music, there is an homage to the TV series My Favorite Martian as the first bars of the show's theme song are sung by one of the Invaders.

Quotes

Sheriff: "I came here to get away from this sort of thing!"
Deputy: "This happened a lot in Chicago?"

Capt. Bipto (over radio): "Meet us at the Wrenchmuller farm."
Lt. Blaznee (to local): "Where do you grow your wrenchmullers?"

Lt. Blaznee: "Just for the record,"
Enforcer Drone : " I'm listening."
Lt. Blaznee : " I thought this was a bad idea."
Enforcer Drone: "Just for the record, you'd better hope not!"

Corporal Pez: "'Prepare to die Earth scum, prepare to die Earth scum!' I'm gonna make sure they carve that on your tombstone!"
Lt. Giggywig : "Ah,shut up!"

Capt. Bipto: "We did win, didn't we?"
Lt. Blaznee: "No, but if we think fast enough we might just live to lie about it."

Lt. Blaznee: "That's it! Take me to a Government Lab, and cut me into wafer thin sections."

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