Undescribable Perfection

Truly Dreadful Film

Brilliant and touching

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

There are a few things wrong with this film,but that I won't detract from the score. The music in this film is a spectacular array of AOR and New wave,something you won't hear in a film's soundtrack nowadays. The fashion was very new wave,that's just fabulous,they dress better than people nowadays. However,the movie lacks a plot,storyline and is really spontaneous.Let's just put it this way,it's just one giant music video. I don't really know much of the people that were in this movie,but as far as Pia Zadora and Jermaine Jackson,I can say they have spectacular voices and,from this film and these two came one of my most favorite songs of the year,"When the rain begins to fall". A must see if you want to appreciate new wave fashion,and music,or if you're just a die-hard Jermaine Jackson fan,or Pia Zadora fan.

"Voyage of the Rock Aliens" is certainly an oddity. Conceived as a spoof of various genres of b-movies, Curb Records got involved and turned it into a vehicle for many of their musicians. A production team was assembled that included people who'd worked on films such as "Dr. Strangelove," "A Hard Days Night," "Star Wars," "Deadly Blessing," "Staying Alive," and "Swamp Thing," amongst others. Not a shabby crew. The result is a completely off-the-wall low budget movie populated with actors who weren't really actors and featuring beautiful visuals, an offbeat production design, catchy songs... and a completely random music video with Jermaine Jackson that was synthetically (and confusingly) inserted into the film as an afterthought.The story concerns a group of aliens who come to Earth and find themselves strangers in the even stranger land of Speelburgh, which is filled with greasers, kooky cops, psycho serial killers, and a slimy sea monster. It's there that one of the aliens (Tom Nolan) falls in love with an aspiring singer (Pia Zadora). But will these starcrossed lovers sing and dance their way across the universe? Or will her jealous greaser boyfriend (Craig Sheffer) stand in their way?!There's something so endearingly tacky about the whole thing that it's downright charming in the way so many similar cult movies are ("Rocky Horror," "Beach Party," "Xanadu," "The Apple," "Earth Girls Are Easy," etc). The characters are quirky and unique (Spyder Mittleman and Patrick Byrnes are both particularly noteworthy for their campy performances), the songs and dances are as '80s as it gets, there's more seemingly random WTF moments than you can shake a stick at, and it seemed like everyone was having a lot of fun screwing around and devouring the scenery.The problem is the film is not very well known. It barely saw any theatrical distribution in the USA before being unceremoniously dumped on video five years later, and I can't find any evidence that it ever played on cable (though it did in Canada). In Europe it had a slightly more substantial release since Pia Zadora's music was popular.If any American DVD distributors are reading, this one's crying out for a widescreen special edition release. And if any theatre managers are reading, midnight screenings would be sublime!

Plotless, goofy, lighthearted, audacious, uplifting, spirited - in short, the most fun movie I've watched in months! I don't even like musicals, but this one had me constantly tapping my feet on the floor. Pia Zadora's acting won't win any awards, but she's appropriately bright and perky here, plus a terrific singer. In its own terms, this film is damn close to perfect. If you have any nostalgic feelings about 80s music, this is a gift sent from heaven. (***1/2)

My god, i couldn`t believe this movie was even made. It is fantastic. Maybe not a good choice to watch when sober but when your smashed.... Trust me if you can get a copy of this get it. Craig Sheiffers preformance in the film is fantastic. After seeing him years ago in Nightbreed i had no realisation that this megastar could sing too. Highly recommended. What a Movie. Look out for the music video starring Jermaine Jackson at the begining of the film that has absolutley no refrence to the movie whatsoever. IT ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!