Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Joanne Pearce | ... | Sandra Brock |
Jimmy Nail | ... | Desmond Brock | |
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Paul Bown | ... | Julian Tope |
James Sikking | ... | Col. Raymond Laribee, CIA (as James B. Sikking) | |
Dinsdale Landen | ... | Commander Grenville Matteson | |
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Tristram Jellinek | ... | Simpson |
George Innes | ... | Stanley Benson | |
Mel Smith | ... | Bernard | |
Griff Rhys Jones | ... | Graham Sweetley | |
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John Joyce | ... | Chief Inspector Miller |
Mark Lewis Jones | ... | Godfrey (as Mark Jones) | |
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Leonard Fenton | ... | Commissionaire |
André Maranne | ... | Prof. Trousseau (as Andre Maranne) | |
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Joanna Dickens | ... | Lady Farmer |
R.J. Bell | ... | Klutz |
3 aliens get a bit of their 'friend', Bernard, hacked off. Bernard keeps making the prat of himself play space ball. It's while he is playing space ball that the 2 others start playing around with the ship's controls. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded whilst they crash into a large blue planet close by...
There's a few chuckles in this sci-fi comedy about earth's first alien visitors being essentially a bunch of uneducated space truckers. Mel Smith co-wrote and stars in the film and somehow managed to snag respected British director Mike Hodges to helm the film. The picture was also shot by ace cinematographer Phil Meheux, who's done everything from multiple James Bond pictures to "The Smurfs" to "The Long Good Friday". However, the concept likely would have worked better as a short film or SNL skit than a feature length film and the plot drags on far too long. Worth a look, but nothing special.