Spaceship

1983 "Get your rockets off on..."
3.5| 1h28m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 01 July 1983 Released
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Country: United States of America
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A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien. Alternate titles include "The Creature Wasn't Nice" and "Naked Space" (1999 re-release trying to capitalize on Nielsen's "Naked Gun" success).

Genre

Horror, Comedy

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Director

Bruce Kimmel

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Spaceship Audience Reviews

Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Evengyny Thanks for the memories!
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
flax_johnny This truly underrated movie (I can't get why so many people hate it) isn't only funny with lines such as "If that's music I'm a horses ass!" "Then it must be music." "I want to eat your knees" it's hilarious as it is. But when you watch it many times you discover many smart and funny undertones such as, the thing that Rodzinski says about Capt. Jameson trying to look under Annie McHues blouse. Which if you watch the movie you will see on many occasions that he does, or trying to touch her, hehe. Just watch this movie for what it is, a not to be taken serious space parody with hilariously bad effects (meant to be bad, and they also didn't have a choice because of low budget) and I hope you will love it just like me and my friends.
Paul Andrews The Creature Wasn't Nice starts in outer space where the U.S. spaceship Vertigo is on a mission to, well I don't know actually & we never find out. The ship & crew come across a previously unknown & undiscovered planet which Dr. Stark (Patrick Macnee) is very exited about, Captain Jamieson (Leslie Nielsen) organises an expedition to the surface which is there in no time whatsoever. The team find a small purple blob of jelly which Stark insists he takes back to the ship to study, they get back to the Vertigo & continue on their way. As Dr. Stark studies the blob of jelly he notices that it is growing at an amazing rate until the point where it has become a huge slimy one eyed alien creature that likes to eat people. Captain Jamieson, morale officer Annie McHugh (Cindy Williams), mechanic Rodzinski (Gerrit Graham) & trainee John (Bruce Kimmel) are now on the creatures menu & must figure a way out to destroy the lump of carnivorous jelly before it eats them all...Written, staring & directed by Bruce Kimmel who was also responsible for the songs in the film I thought The Creature Wasn't Nice wasn't anything special but it has a few things going for it that just about saved it from being a complete waste of time as far as I was concerned. The script takes a while to get going & it's not until the 50 minute mark that the alien is seen & takes center stage, the film is supposedly a comedy although most of the jokes & humour don't really work. I would describe the film as being a spoof of Alien (1979) with a touch of The Green Slime (1969) & The Blob (1958) thrown in there for good measure, personally I reckon it would have worked better & had been vastly more successful if it had taken itself a bit more seriously & tried to pay homage to the men in rubber monster suits films from the 40's, 50's & 60's like Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) or It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) although that's just my opinion. Unfortunately for all it's good intentions The Creature Wasn't Nice just isn't a very good film, it's not funny, it's not clever & not that much actually happens in it. For me the film is saved by the alien jelly-baby itself & it's notorious rendition of 'I wanna eat your face' while dancing, it's certainly a memorable sight & is funny more in a funny peculiar way than a funny laugh out loud way if that makes sense.Director Kimmel was obviously working on a low budge & pads the latter stages of the film out with lots of dull shots of people walking down the same corridor in search of the creature, actually it's not meant to be the same corridor but it's so obvious that it is with just the identification number changed. The film is also horribly dated, apparently set in the future there is a shot of Leslie Nielsen playing Space Invaders from the early 80's & they still use cassette tapes for music, there isn't a CD or iPod in sight. The special effects aren't anything to write home about either although I loved the dodgy looking creature & thought it was a shame that he never ate anyone on screen.Technically the film is rough, the special effects are anything but & the production design is cheap throughout. I personally rather liked the monster but he does look very fake at times. The acting is pretty bad from everyone (maybe intentional? Boy they did a good job if it was), Cindy Williams as the lone female is sort of cute in an early 80's way. Nielsen & Mcnee are really slumming it here & must have needed rent money badly, all I can say is was it really worth it boys?The Creature Wasn't Nice has a few decent moments all involving the big crew eating purple jelly alien which amount to 10 or 15 minutes worth. Maybe I'm being a little generous here but I'll go with a 6 out of 10 stars (stars, spaceship & aliens? Get it? Forget it...) because of the alien & it song & dance routine, definitely an acquired taste. Overall though I'd say it deserves it's low IMDb score...
Death_to_Pan_and_Scan This is a prime candidate for worst 'comedy' film ever made.They came close to screwing up; there were a couple moments where I almost cracked a smile…almost. I have a friend who loves this film. His wife and I are considering having him committed to a sanitarium for just that reason. Neither of us can see what makes this film so amusing to him. At the same time, he can't see the entertainment value of "The Beyond" or "Dellamorte Dellamore" (aka Cemetery Man), two popular cult films. What's wrong with "Naked Space"? It's not funny; it's uproariously unfunny. The attempts at jokes all fall flat. They even attempt an ill-advised musical number. They say that 'drama is easy, comedy is hard'. This is a textbook example of how badly a comedy film can fail.The DVD I saw this on was where it was re-titled and called "Naked Space" in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Leslie Nielsen in the entertaining movie parody series "The Naked Gun" (based on the old "Police Squad!" TV series). The idea of this film was to parody old B grade sci-fi creature movies on obviously cheaply made sets. Even "The Seventh Planet", in all its awfulness, did a better job of that while probably attempting to be somewhat serious sci-fi.Bruce Kimmel has never directed a good movie and probably never will. He helped write the story for Robert Rodriguez's "The Faculty", but it was simply a B grade sci-fi horror film idea that was made into a good film by Rodriguez's direction and a decent cast.Leslie Nielsen can be very funny in parodies of a variety of film genres. This is not one of those movies. I rate this film only slightly higher than complete failures like such bad Z grade zombie films as "Day of the Dead 2: Contagium" and "Dead Life". The only reason to watch this film is because you lost a bet (and that should put anyone off of gambling). One could be excused for thinking that the cast members appear in this film because they lost a bet with Kimmel.Run, do not walk, away from your nearest video store to avoid this movie!
René Ranson OK, while it shouldn't win awards and all that stuff, in this day and age I find myself reaching for this movie over and over. Yes, whenever there are parties at my house and I reach for this, people leave in droves. There is this one guy however that has seen it a bunch and loves it too! It's an acquired taste...like sardines on a hot day with a glass of skim milk...but an acquired taste nonetheless. It is campy and goofy, but that is exactly what I expected and I came out fine. There are some great facial expressions from the whole cast and some decent one-liners as well. Anyway, I checked out the 2001 A Space Traversty (or whatever it is) hoping it would be a funny Leslie movie and I liked this one (Naked Space..Spaceship....whatever) better. Granted, Leslie has a more "serious" role in this, but he makes himself look like an idiot more by doing so! It is a fun movie for me (just an opinion for myself!) and watch it EXPECTING a very low budget, dated, 80's cheap comedy. Where is "Creature's Not Nice II", Mr. Kimmel??