Director: Gerardo Chierchia
Year: 2022
Country: Australia
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Plot:
In the middle of the worldwide pandemic, a race of space aliens invade the world and begin a rampage of terror against the world attacking whoever they can around the world, forcing the clueless citizens to find a means of utilizing the aliens’ purpose for visiting against them to save humanity.
Review:
Overall, this was a rather fun if somewhat disappointing genre effort. When this one works nicely is in letting the absurdity of the premise work itself out in a series of highly impressive cheesy genre scenes. The whole idea of the invasion taking place with a series of random shots with the spaceships in the background or the main alien appearing to cause destruction in a spectacular display of inherently cheesy and silly special effects spectacle gives this a generally fun attitude and atmosphere. Whether raining down an untold amount of lasers on people or objects alike or merely blowing something up. This type of tone and atmosphere is reciprocated in the type of cheesy comedy here with the goofy CGI matched by the wordplay on official social media channels and obvious over-dubbing done for the dialog that offers a silly enough atmosphere to everything that has a lot to like.
There are some problems here. One of the biggest issues is the most obvious issue here in the unwieldy and outright unnecessary running time present with this one going on far longer than it really should be. The worldwide implications of what’s going on mean this one shuttles around to various parts of the globe essentially getting the same type of skit or segment way more often than necessary and making this feel repetitive series of jokes that can potentially wear out their welcome especially as the film carries on. That makes the overall effect here come off like a random assortment of scenes without much else going on by going through so many locale changes and character shifts as it does which is an understandable byproduct of its origin status but is still quite prominently featured. These factors are the main drawbacks to be had with this one.
Overview: ***/5
An enjoyably cheesy effort that has a lot to like, that this one manages to cover up some of its origin-based restrictions in a state of pure lunacy despite still running on way too long is a testament to the fun of this one. Those with a taste for this kind of cheesy genre fare or are fans of the creative works’ style and approach will have a lot to like here but those turned off by the flaws here might want to heed caution.
For those in Melbourne
Toxic Alien Zombie Babes From Outer Space will be showing on Sunday the 18th of September at 11:00PM on Channel 31!
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