2001: A Space Travesty (2000)

Director:

Allan A. Goldstein

Writer:

Alan Shearman (writer)

Release Date:

17 November 2000 (Portugal)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

The Most Outer Spaced-Out Comedy Ever!

Plot:

Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix...

Plot Keywords:

Memory | Sword | Product Placement | Anvil | Elevator

Cast

Leslie Nielsen	...	Richard 'Dick' Dix
Ophélie Winter	...	Cassandra Menage
Ezio Greggio	...	Captain Valentino Di Pasquale
Peter Egan	...	Dr. Griffin Pratt
Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld	...	Dr. Uschi Künstler (as Alexandra Kamp)
Damien Masson	...	Mr. President (as Damian Mason)
Pierre Edwards	...	Lt. Bradford Shitzu (as Pierre)
David Fox	...	Secretary Osgood
Sam Stone	...	Police Chief Halverson
Verona Pooth	...	Yetta Pussel (as Verona Feldbusch)
Michel Perron	...	Famous Tenor #1
Paul Rainville	...	Famous Tenor #2
Yvan Ducharme	...	Famous Tenor #3
Marc Hervieux	...	Famous Tenor Voice #1 (voice)
Perry Canestrari	...	Famous Tenor Voice #2 (voice)

Also Known As:

2000.1: A Space Travesty (USA) (promotional title)
2001: Une parodie de l'espace (Canada: French title)
2002 - Durchgeknallt im All (Germany)
Marshall Dick: Son of the Naked Gun (Philippines: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for crude sexual humor.

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

Canada | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Netherlands:AL | South Korea:12 | Denmark:7 | Germany:6 | Iceland:L | Philippines:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | USA:R | Finland:K-11 | UK:12 | Australia:PG (video rating)

Filming Locations:

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Company:

Cinevent

Trivia:

The space shuttle that Marshal Dix takes to Vegan is owned by Pan Universe Airlines, the same company that owned the Mayflower 1 shuttle in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982).

Goofs:

Continuity: The position of black strap on the megaphone, as the officer speaks through it to the fast food order stand, changes.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Soundtrack:

In The Navy

Things are just getting worse and worse...

I'm curious: doesn't Leslie Nielsen (once a decent actor) read the scripts of the movies he's playing in anymore? It seems that nowadays all the writers or director of a movie need to do is tell Nielsen: Hey we're gonna make fun of some other movies, interested? And Nielsen would just sit there like, 'yeah'!

Instead of what the title would assume, 2001's main victim isn't A Space Odyssey but the more recent Men In Black. But, having said that, I cannot think of one decent joke relating to that movie. Nor can I tell here what the story is all about... it's got something to do with the president being swapped with a clone, or not, or whatever.

By lack of anything good to offer director Goldstein just throws some lusty women into it, but perhaps it says all that no well-known woman apparently would like to take up the job, so we have to do with an unknown French woman and an unknown German one...

In fact, I don't know of any reason why I should recommend this movie. Some lame jokes are just about OK, but nothing more than a 2/10 if you'd ask me.