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: When Pratt goes to visit Dix, the shaving cream on his face goes on and off. In some shots Pratt's right eye is covered by cream and in others it is clean.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The 6th Day (2000)

Soundtrack:

In The Navy

There are no heroes

This is like finding out that 6th grader who's always jumping over stuff with his mountainbike is lactose intolerant. Leslie Nielsen plays a guy called Dick Dix in this movie, and guess what, that's one of the better jokes. It's absolutely painful to see Leslie Nielsen in this movie,desperately looking for one joke that's not a sign of the apocalypse. The script centers mostly around slapstick that doesn't go over at all. Early in the movie a guy loses his wig and we actually follow the wig changing places all the time. The scene goes on forever and serves no purpose, but it does set the tone for the entire movie. No creativity, just boring slapstick and embarrassing attempts to sharp political humour. This is a movie that gets a Clinton impersonator, and focuses on how he plays the saxophone. That's hard-hitting satire right there. Remember how Clinton always played the saxophone? I do, kinda. Nielsen talks about a woman's finesse while she's beating everyone up. Comedy. More WTF-moments come when the three tenors come into the picture. One lovely scene involves a Pavarotti look-a-like threatening to castrate a guy. He makes a snipping gesture and sings a high note. It's hard to even ridicule a joke that's already so terrible all by itself. The type of comedy isn't even consistent, one time it's the aforementioned slapstick, then it's "satire", then suddenly the writers remembered they didn't have any in-jokes yet. So they put in like ten in a row. This thing sucks.