Alien Autopsy (2006)

Director:

Jonny Campbell

Writer:

William Davies (written by)

Release Date:

7 April 2006 (Ireland)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

What Are You Looking At?

Plot:

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947. |

Plot Keywords:

Film Set | Airplane | Museum | Top Secret | Hoax

Cast

Declan Donnelly	...	Ray Santilli
Ant McPartlin	...	Gary Shoefield
Bill Pullman	...	Morgan Banner
Götz Otto	...	Laszlo Voros
Morwenna Banks	...	Jasmine
Omid Djalili	...	Melik
Harry Dean Stanton	...	Harvey
Mike Blakeley	...	Camera Team
Matthew Blakeley	...	Camera Team
John Shrapnel	...	Michael Kuhn
Madeleine Moffat	...	Nan (as Madaleine Moffat)
John Cater	...	Maurice
Lee Oakes	...	Edgar
Perry Benson	...	Trading Standards Officer
Jimmy Carr	...	Gary's Boss

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, partial nudity, language and some disturbing images.

Runtime:

Finland:91 min | UK:95 min

Country:

Germany | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

UK:12A | Ireland:12A | Italy:T | USA:PG-13 | Germany:12 | Finland:K-11 | Singapore:PG | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Ealing Studios, Ealing, London, England, UK

Company:

Ealing Studios

Trivia:

Where the crowds are banging on the windows to the Museum of London, the writing on the glass is the word "Welcome" in many different languages.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When Gary is traveling on the bus there is a shot of the bus in London traffic with a Ford Mondeo behind, this shape Mondeo was introduced in October 1996, the film is set in around April 1995.

Quotes:

Ray Santilli: Voros was in the middle of a crop circle, looking up to the heavens, hoping for some sort of close encounter probably, just came out of nowhere.
Morgan Banner: Alien spacecraft...
Gary Shoefield: No, a green Land Rover. Knocked him over. Killed him.
Ray Santilli: Dead.
Gary Shoefield: He was naked.

Movie Connections:

References I Heart Huckabees (2004)

Soundtrack:

Heartbreak Hotel

enjoyable film not to be taken too seriously

I have been puzzled as to all the bad reviews about this film. Whilst it will not be a contender for any of the film awards, it is still an entertaining film. The story follows two men who hoax an alien autopsy from actual footage that one of them has actually seen, it will become clearer in the actual movie. I do think the scenes where they are doing the autopsy are in fact quite funny and from watching it being filmed it is difficult to understand how anyone took it seriously. The performances in the film are of an acceptable standard, nothing special, the two leads have acted before in children's television series, but nothing to this extent. The only thing I will say is that I thought I was watching Ant and Dec not the two characters they were meant to be playing. I think that if you go in with an open mind and do not expect be challenged then I think that you will enjoy this film.