Did you people see the same film I saw?

Better Late Then Never

As Good As It Gets

A Major Disappointment

Today I passed an afternoon with a friend and at 17:00 we rented and saw this movie.I found the title a bit weird because I taught ''It's a spoof of 2001: A space Odissey'', but I (and my friend) after the first 5 minutes realized that this is not a spoof, but one of the worst movies ever made in cinema history!Let me tell you that this movie looks like written by a bunch of animals and directed by a 3-month old child! Leslie Nielsen must have been ashamed of starring in this movie and he maybe did it for money, but the movie it's lame! I only saw this movie because I am a fan of Ezio Greggio, an actor known here in Italy for ''Striscia la Notizia'', and he is the only funny actor in the movie. I am really proud of the fact I didn't starred in this movie, because it would have been really a painful experience for me!Advice: DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE! IF YOU FIND IT IN DVD BURN IT! IT'S A TOTAL WAIST OF TIME! INSTEAD OF SEEING THIS MOVIE DO SOMETHING MORE USEFUL LIKE READING A BOOK OR HELPING THE HOMELESS PERSONS!

Released in 2000, "2001: A Space Travesty" spoofs space shows/movies and anything else it feels like making fun of, like politicians and musicians (e.g. "Bill Clinton" is one of the characters). Leslie Nielsen stars as a Frank Drebin-like character and the movie shoots for the goofy humor of The Naked Gun trilogy, but fails. With the wealth of material at its disposal, I don't know how this movie could've gone so wrong, but it's rarely funny and often downright bad; and this is coming from someone who enjoys goofy humor a la The Naked Gun. It doesn't help that the 2-3 most prominent women aren't sexy; to me, at least. Worse, the sex-oriented jokes are more gross and vulgar than funny. Thankfully, the third act is better than the first two, but that can't save it.The film is overlong at 99 minutes.GRADE: D+

Now I do like spoof movies, when they are funny and done right. There are some funny spoofs around, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety and Loaded Weapon 1 for example, but the spoof genre has also had some excrement such as Disaster Movie and Epic Movie. 2001: A Space Travesty is not as bad as any of the worst of Friedberg and Seltzer. However, that is not saying much, 2001:A Space Travesty is still a terrible movie, being contrived, embarrassing and unfunny and it makes you think what possessed Leslie Nielson to take on this project.As I said in the review title, the irony in the word "travesty" is correct. To be honest, while hardly clever or original the title is the best asset of this movie, as well as the end credits which was the only time in the entire movie when I cracked a smile, you know immediately there is something wrong when that is the case. The production values are cheap, with the costumes more reminiscent of fancy dress, shoddy camera work, dismal special effects and wobbly sets. The soundtrack is poorly thought out, In the Navy by The Three Tenors especially felt as though it was shoe horned in.The story is predictable and almost a non-event, the pace didn't draw me in in any way and the direction was decidedly patchy. Also the characters are little more than stereotypes and caricatures and really bad ones at that with names that felt like poor Carry On lampoons. The acting is terrible, yes including from the talented Leslie Nielson. Nielson shows he can be funny as with Naked Gun and Airplane, which are comedy classics in my opinion, but he overacts and mugs shamelessly here which saddened me hugely. Everyone else either overplay, are bland or seem to be playing themselves. Worse is the humour, the film just isn't funny and is filled with the crude and vulgar kind of humour that doesn't come close to the inspired zaniness of the best of the spoof genre. The homages and references to sci-fis such as 2001:A Space Odyssey(one of my favourite films) are obvious and poorly thought out and the script is abysmal and didn't make me laugh one time.In conclusion, not the worst of the genre but a mess all the same. 2/10 Bethany Cox

I kinda watched this film in a bad mood hoping for a good laugh, Leslie Neilson always makes me laugh. Especially parody movies, since I wasn't into 2001: A Space Odessey, I thought that this was a fun looking movie that would make fun of that film. Well, it turned into something pretty bad, I really couldn't find myself laughing at any of the situations, which is sad, because I find the stupidest situations very funny and I am easily amused. But I was curious if maybe it was my bad mood that killed the comedy for me, but I looked on IMDb before watching it again and it's not just me apparently.Well, a some what take off of the Naked Gun series, only in outer space situations, Leslie is now Dick Dix, a clumsy detective that is sent to a planet called Vegan where he learns that President Clinton has been kidnapped and cloned and that the clone is on Earth with bad intentions for the world. Or as it seems, Dick actually plants the clone by accident and well... it just wasn't funny.The jokes tried too hard and the story was just weak, it could have been something special, but unfortunately they took too much advantage of the Naked Gun series, which was pretty sad. I know Leslie can do much better and he has, so I forgive him. For those users who are looking for a recommendation here, I'm not going to give you one because like I said, I thought it was just me that didn't like the film, but I think the rating is enough warning in itself.3/10