2001 A Space Travesty (US)

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The Most Outer Spaced-Out Comedy Ever!
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 98 mins
Retail Price: $24.95
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Synopsis:
First there was Airplane! then came The Naked Gun series. This time Leslie Nielsen is even more far out than ever in 2001: A Space Travesty, a hilarious comedy that dares to spoof where no one`s spoofed before: on another planet.

When the president of the United States is kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a clone, the police call on Marshal "Dick" Dix of th International Security Force to help rescue him - and quickly, before they clone the rest of the world`s leaders.

With the fate of the world in his clumsy hands, Dix heads to the planet Vegan, a very strange place run by an evil doctor and inhabited by aliens who, having learned to speak English from watching television, all talk like different Hollywood movie stars. After engaging in some freaky lunar socializing, Dix joins forces with sexy officer Cassandre Menage and master of disguise Captain di Pasquale to rescue the saxophone playing president. They return to Washington D.C., and accomplish their mission of replacing the cloned president with the real president. Or do they?

Special Features:
Theatrical Trailers

Video Tracks:
Pan & Scan 1.33:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English

Subtitle Tracks:
English
CC: English

Directed By:
Allan A. Goldstein

Written By:

Starring:
Damien Masson
Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld
Peter Egan
Ezio Greggio
Ophélie Winter
Leslie Nielsen

Casting By:
Nadia Rona

Soundtrack By:
Claude Foisy

Music From:
Johann Strauß

Director of Photography:
Sylvain Brault

Editor:
Gaétan Huot

Production Designer:
Csaba András Kertész

Producer:
Danny Rossner
Hannah Richardson
Jeffrey Konvitz
Werner Koenig
Martin Heldmann
Gary DePew
Luc Campeau

Executive Producer:
Chuck Smiley
Leslie Nielsen

Distributor:
Columbia / Tristar

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4 / 10
This review discusses the region 2 disk.
I admit. "The Naked Gun" trilogy was funny to some extent. However, there is absolutely no excuse for this movie. It`s idiotic, poorly done, not funny, boring or in plain words - utter crap.
The video transfer is a butchered fullscreen one. There are no compression signs but the transfer shows some grain and imperfections of the source print. The so called special effects are horrible.
The DD 5.1 soundtrack is ok. The surrounds are used occasionally for sound effects.
The menus are still with music.
There are no extras on the disk.
Bottom line - I don`t know what was I thinking when I rented this movie. Serves me right. I cannot emphasize enough just how bad this movie is. Avoid it at all costs.
posted by Zvi Josef on 13/3/2002 09:27