2001 A Space Travesty
Synopsis: First there was Airplane! Then came The Naked Gun series. This time Leslie Neisen 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 the 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 Cassandra Menage and master of disguise Captain di Pasqusle to rescue the saxophone playing president. They return to Washington D.C. and accomplish there mission of replacing the cloned president with the real president. Or do they?
Rating: R
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Director: Allan A. Goldstein
Dvd Extra’s: Subtitles: English, Theatrical Trailers.
Nudity Factor: A mans full moon, a few quick nipple shots as well as the actress dancing in a thong.
Of Note: The space shuttle that Marshal Dix takes to Vegan is owned by Pan Universe Airlines, the same company that owned the Mayflower 1 shuttle in Airplane II: The Sequel.
Recommendations:
Yes it is a spoof film and for the most part I can’t stand them. There are a few exceptions, but this one is not one of them. You follow the bumbling government agent as he is tasked with uncovering that the President (look alike of Clinton) has been kidnapped and replaced with a clone. From there, let the spoof begin. I must say that I am a pretty big fan of SCIFI films, books, and other media, but many of the references in this movie were lost. There are some pretty obvious ones such as 2001 A Space Odyssey, kind of can see that one coming considering the title of this movie. But for the most part, I didn’t follow many of the references.
Overall, I am not that big of a fan of spoof movies to begin with, so it would have to be pretty special for me to like it. Even with that, this is still not even that good of a spoof movie, making it even harder to watch.