Too much of everything

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

What can I say? If Bruce Campbell wasn't in this, there would be no reason to watch it. It's not just bad; it's terrible... The dialogue is beyond cheesy; the plot seems to have arisen during an after-work drinking session; the special effects are shamefully constructed by a ten year old; the wardrobe department has plundered the local hardware and costume shops and the acting, well, I think the furry bikini-clad woman may have actually been a store mannequin. This, I realise, is an insult to store mannequins. In fact, there's so much wrong with it it almost makes it back around the scale to good - another cheesy movie to be enjoyed on the sole condition that you are one of those strange people who enjoys revelling in the absurd.

It's a good thing the filmmakers didn't make this a real serious film. It is clearly low budget and the acting is really really bad. There are touches of imagination, and that is appreciated but the special effects are only average. The premise itself sound interesting, astronauts return to earth after a forty year mission, and earth has been taken over by wood craving aliens. Then it struck me, what outer space mission isn't on daily contact with earth? So it makes the whole story invalid. How could they be so surprised? Although the humor is welcome, it's also out of place. The score becomes monotonous after awhile. It was just to stupid to be enjoyed.

When all is doubted and all seems lost never forget that one man can bring back the pride and that man is a "Space Man" and a doctor. Who later discovers that while meeting a beautiful lady she has the best cure of them all, ale. Not only a great way to heal the sick but a great way for helping to forget your sorrows and remember the past before (they) came…the film is what you expect. Corny funny. The humor is light but it draws you in. The world has changed so much since we last knew it…life is just living everyday and trying to make do with what is left of what you have which is not much of anything. Out of fear even some of the humans have traded sides hoping to be on the right side when the time comes. One mans non-stop courage gives hope and determination to everyone around him…he gathers followers returning faith that has long faded and proves that sometimes you have to take control of the madness yourself and stop relying on someone else that may not even really exist anymore.

Well, I'have to confess : My DVD collection is pretty complete with "classics" and I'm bound to look for very bad Sci-fi or horror B-movies for some late-night entertainment.Alien apocalypse is certainly fitting in this "niche", and without the presence of Bruce Campbell, I would certainly have overlooked it.The movie can be summarized like this : Simple and over-predictable plot, taking inspiration from recent movies like Independence day, battlefield earth (Yikes!), star-gate,...Le FX are, er, limited to bad CGI aliens (with bad animation, looking like they were coming from a 1990-era CD-Rom game). There are occasional explosions, which is obviously the same filmed from different angles.The acting is very bad. More like a college end-of-year revue. And it's especially visible when some actors interact with the handful of "profesionnals" actors (like Campbell). One fine example is the young "warrior" woman whom you can hardly hear during dialogs.Costumes are cheap and really stupids (White Space suit/uniform complete with Shoes with gaiter closed by long shoelaces anyone ?) and most of the cast are wearing fake beards and wigs obviously bought from a prank store (sometimes the hairs are not from the same color than the beard).Decors and locations are limited to woods or desert (looking more like an abandoned quarry. You can spot wheels threads here and there).And the more fun are the plot holes : Every one has forgotten everything about civilization in twenty years (but most of the cast is aged 30-40years old). Superior aliens that have subdued the whole planet in a snap are living in a wooden shed and have no trace of spaceship or computers or advanced means of communication. Moreover they seems to be killed very easily although everyone seems convinced that they are immortals. The "resistance" is killing a lot of aliens and guards during the uprising, but they stick with the bows, ignoring the rifles and "laser rods" left by the dead aliens.And finally, they spent most of the movie looking for the "president" which is allegedly alive and forming an army (a kind of legend, giving hope to the captive). It appears that the president is living in a garden shed, less than one day of walk from the saw mill, and still has the whole congress with him (still wearing suits 20years after the attack although the "captives" are wearing animal furs). Very, very funny... It was worth the 2euros I paid for it (found in a bargain bin in a department store)