2009 · action · adventure · comedy
Alien Trespass
Directed by R. W. Goodwin1h 30m2009
In 1957 a fiery object crashes into a mountaintop in the California desert, bringing the threat of disaster to Earth. Out of the flying saucer escapes a murderous creature, the Ghota, bent on destroying all life forms on the planet. A benevolent alien from the spaceship, Urp, inhabits the body of Ted Lewis, an astronomer and with the help of Tammy, a diner waitress, sets out to save mankind.
Our read: Alien Trespass (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive action · adventure · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
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