I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The really bad thing about this movie is the amount of time wasting filler.More than half of this is just people walking or driving with no dialogue or action. The set up is great.A weird looking alien in a Star Trek uniform is stumbling through the desert with a giant laser gun.A space ships flies in and two E.T. style aliens get out with a very small gun.They turn the guy into dust and leave.But the guy's giant laser gun and weird necklace survive somehow.Then they spend way too much time trying to get us to feel sympathy for the main character.He's a rich kid with a hot girlfriend but his mommy doesn't have time for him.The cops hassle him and the other kids make fun of him so he goes to the desert and finds the laser gun and starts blowing up stuff.Then we see that the aliens can see he found the gun and they know they have to come back and stop him.But it's not even the aliens that were there, it was their superior.So they left cameras there and left that laser and only their superior can watch the cameras?It doesn't make any sense and they replay the entire scene of the kid finding gun.This could have been a great short but it's a not so great full length.

I was expecting Laserblast to be awful, judging by its position in the "Mystery Science Theater 3000: 10 Worst Movies They Riffed" list and its reputation. It is a bad movie- though I can see why people would find it entertaining to watch- but it is much better than the likes of Monster A-Go Go, Manos the Hands of Fate, The Wild World of Batwoman, Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders and Hobgoblins, and in general there are far worse as well. The best asset of Laserblast is the music score, which pulsates through the movie with great energy and atmosphere that is not matched with the rest of the movie. Cheryl Smith is sweet and sympathetic and Keenan Wynn is appropriately gruff. And I personally though the stop-motion and the aliens were quite good, of any of the movies on the "10 Movies they Riffed" list it is Laserblast that has the best special effects. Everything else comes up painfully short though, Roddy MacDowell is wasted to the point that you question why was he even in it, and Eddie Deezen has to be the most annoying bully ever seen in film. The story is a real drag as well, it makes very little sense if at all, has so much overlong filler that adds nothing to the storytelling and is one of those instances where the plot summary pretty much sums up the whole movie. It also doesn't know what to do with itself and takes forever to get going, it is half-an-hour until anything of the sort happens and then when the gun is found the rest of the movie is just stuff getting shot at. At best, the camera work and editing are haphazard, the dialogue is hysterically bad and the characters are not developed anywhere near enough or characterised very effectively to be believable or likewise. In conclusion, Laserblast is a bad movie that is rather dull and senseless and wastes McDowell but a great score, better-than-average stop-motion and effects and two decent performances make it not as bad as all that. 3/10 Bethany Cox

It's not like anything stands out as truly bad in this movie, it's more so that there is simply absolutely nothing happening in it at all.I can forgive a movie for being bad sometimes, as long as it's entertaining but I can't forgive a movie for being boring and offering me absolutely nothing to enjoy about it.Blame it all on the writing of course. This movie still had the potential in it to be a fun one but the writers obviously had no idea what to with its premise. As a matter of fact, they had a hard time coming up with anything at all, since the movie for most part is just dragging on and filled with some sequences, that in the long run, serve absolutely no purpose for the movie at all.It's really not the worst movie with any of its effects or acting. I mean, it even has Roddy McDowall in it, even though the movie itself can't even spell his name right. The effects are even somewhat good and the movie even had a bit of money to spend it on some decent action.Really not one of the worst movies I have ever seen but it surely is one of the more redundant ones.3/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Hey, you get what you get with a Charles Band production. That guy has been producing an army of schlock theatrical and straight-to-video movies since the mid-1970's. Laserblast is one of his earlier efforts, and actually, one of his best. This guy just seems to have no "Off" switch. Type his name into the IMDb search box for an idea. Almost 250 movies, and he's still going strong.A buddy and I first saw Laserblast at a Drive-In 1978, with a bong and a bag of weed between the seats. The weed probably helped, but we loved it and had some great laughs (and about 20 pounds of popcorn). The Dynamation was pretty fair, and the story was certainly what we'd come to expect from our Drive-In experiences. I just caught it again on a MST3K rerun. Still pretty funny, even without the SOL boys help. (Keep an eye out for boom mikes in frame and film crew reflections. It's a Band trademark.)I have no facts to back this up, but it's my guess that Band just drives his car through the wall of a local film school, grabs a sophomore director, crew, and actors, offers them 100 bucks each and a listing in the film credits. Seems to have worked pretty well for him too. He's responsible for the Puppet Master, Dollman, and Demonic Toys series of films, along with low rent classics such as Zombiethon, Vicious Lips, Galactic Gigolo, and Murdercycle.Laserblast is better than average for this genre of films, but you DO need to be in the mood for them. And hey, nothing Charles Band has done is as bad as say...Monster a-Go Go or Red Zone Cuba. Oh, and somebody a few comments back made mention that this movie hugely ripped off E.T. Well, if you have any questions about similar looking aliens or story elements, take them up with Spielberg, because Laserblast came out 4 years earlier than E.T.