The promoters describe this 1973 effort from John Carpenter as a "cult classic" and "an irreverently funny parody of 2001." They're lying. If offered a choice between death and watching this movie, choose death.

The only possible explanation for why some people consider it funny is that a lot of people in the 1970s were on drugs, and their descendants today inherited some sort of perceptive disorder.

The beachball with feet glued to the bottom has to be the worst "alien" in film history. None of the characters are in any way likeable or interesting, and the only consolation is that none of them survive the ending. This isn't a spoiler -- it says so, right on the back of the video.

If you want irreverently funny parody, rent some episodes of Red Dwarf instead. This isn't worth seeing for laughs, or even as a historical curiosity. It's just bad, bad, BAD. This is surely the movie screening at every theater in Hell, alternate nights with "Xanadu", for the rest of eternity.

Rating: 0.01 of a turkey, and it only scores that high because parts of the theme song were sort of OK.