Morons from Outer Space

Morons from Outer Space
Directed by	Mike Hodges
Written by	Griff Rhys Jones Mel Smith
Starring	Griff Rhys Jones Mel Smith Joanne Pearce James B. Sikking
Editing by	Peter Boyle
Release date(s)	29 March 1985
Running time	91 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Morons from Outer Space is a 1985 comedy/science-fiction film directed by Mike Hodges.

Plot

The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by (Earth).

The aliens become instant celebrities on arrival, despite being able to bring no great revelation or technical ability to the people of Earth (as is central to the plot of many “aliens on Earth” films). They find a manager (Jones) and become wealthy more or less overnight, packing fans in auditoriums just to see them. Meanwhile, Bernard arrives on Earth via other means of transport. Despite being by far the most intelligent of the group, Bernard is not afforded any celebrity, and is in fact condemned to vagrancy and a brief stint in mental hospital before reuniting with his fellow travellers near the end of the film. The others, fearing that the introduction of Bernard would lessen their popularity and celebrity, fail to mention that they had originally been travelling with a fourth.

References

External links

• Morons from Outer Space at the Internet Movie Database
• Morons from Outer Space at AllRovi
• filmcritic.com review
• DVD Talk review
• Empire Magazine review
• Spinning Image review
• SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review review
• B-Movie Central review
• Time Out review