Morons from Outer Space (1985)

The story begins when three aliens get a bit hacked off at their 'friend' Bernard, who keeps making a prat of himself playing space ball. It is while he is playing space ball that the ... See full summary »

Director:

Mike Hodges

Writers:

Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith

Stars:

Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Mel Smith

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Joanne Pearce	...	Sandra Brock
Jimmy Nail	...	Desmond Brock
Paul Bown	...	Julian Tope
James Sikking	...	Col. Raymond Laribee, CIA (as James B. Sikking)
Dinsdale Landen	...	Commander Grenville Matteson
Tristram Jellinek	...	Simpson
George Innes	...	Stanley Benson
Mel Smith	...	Bernard
Griff Rhys Jones	...	Graham Sweetley
John Joyce	...	Chief Inspector Miller
Mark Lewis Jones	...	Godfrey (as Mark Jones)
Leonard Fenton	...	Commissionaire
André Maranne	...	Prof. Trousseau (as Andre Maranne)
Joanna Dickens	...	Lady Farmer
R.J. Bell	...	Klutz

Storyline

The story begins when three aliens get a bit hacked off at their 'friend' Bernard, who keeps making a prat of himself playing space ball. It is while he is playing space ball that the others start playing around with the space ship controls. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...

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Plot Keywords:

space | media | military | alien | spaceship | 

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Taglines:

One Giant Leap ... BACKWARDS!

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Genres:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

PG-13

Details

Official Sites:

MGM Studios [us]

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 September 1985 (USA)

Also Known As:

Corra! Os ETs Chegaram

Company Credits

Production Co:

Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The movie's Morons from Outer Space title was similar to the title of the cult Ed Wood B-movie sci-fi film Plan 9 from Outer Space.

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Quotes

Television Presenter: [Referring to the Morons] ... Commander Madison added that they were highly-intelligent and potentially dangerous...
Bernard: [Disgusted] *HIGHLY* INTELLIGENT?

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Connections

Referenced in Comedy Connections: Alas Smith and Jones (2007)

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Soundtracks

"THE ENTERTAINER"
(uncredited)
Music by Scott Joplin
Arranged by Peter Brewis

User Reviews

Good piece of British comedy.

It's British, so it's not going to look or feel like the American style of sci-fi comedy. It compares well with Spaceballs or Galaxy Quest. The humour is subtle and ironic, it spends as much time sending up the tabloids and cold war paranoia as it does spoofing contemporary sci-fi. It also goes down the one road that sci-fi doesn't travel very often: What if we are well up the food chain compared to our neighbours? The answer it arrives at is "Then we are in trouble." Above all this is as gentle as ET, with a big heart and a good moral at the end of the story. If you like this movie, try the 2000AD strip 'Skizz' a much darker treatment, but again from the alien point of view.

T.