Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962)

Strong and Moving!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

For those of you reading this review, please remember that what you choose to watch doesn't define you. That said; you're insane if you think this movie is any worse than 99% of the programming about "Aliens", ancient or otherwise. Think not? Watch five episodes of "Big Bang Theory". It's FUN and that's it.There is one part I was not happy with, and that was when the Indians broke into a "Dance" of some kind. It was just not choreographed completely. Anything like Native dancing? HELL NO !! I just think the movie needed more of it, and maybe Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, et al. could have used some of the moves in their so-called dancing. They had a real chance to have some fun, but only one guy seemed to have any dancing ability; too bad.As far as the sexpot alien foxes that the heroes scored in the end, don't we all deserve a little hope? Direction? forget about it. Acting talent? Minimal. Plot? no more ridiculous than the technical advisers on "Ancient Aliens". Male characters? too stupid to contemplate. Women characters? Just really great looking, and since they're aliens, can we really understand them? Sure, with a big budget, and well, what else do you need, they could've had a "better" movie, but, WHY? This is drive-in movie fare, and is perfect for it. It's great.

"Invasion of the Star Creatures" is a low-budget spoof of equally low- budget science fiction films. Just to make sure everyone is in on the joke, the credits open with, "R.I. Diculous Presents An Impossible Picture." It is filled with silly situations and corny jokes, but it is rather amusing, if you are in the mood for this sort of thing.On an army missile base, Private Philbrick and Private Penn are normally in charge of such things as washing the garbage cans, but are assigned by Colonel Awol to be part of a team investigating a cave that opened up as the result of a nuclear test explosion. The team discovers seven-foot-tall plant-like extraterrestrials, sort of like the alien in "The Thing from Another World" (1951). However, these plant creatures are just slaves, their masters being two tall, beautiful women, reminiscent of movies like "Cat-Women of the Moon" (1953) and "Queen of Outer Space" (1958).The two privates are captured by the vegetable monsters and brought before the two women, Professor Tanga and Dr. Puna. Philbrick wonders aloud what Space Commander Connors would do, an allusion to such radio and television characters as Captain Video and Captain Midnight, or the television show "Space Patrol" (1950-55). The women tell Penn and Philbrick they plan to return to their planet, after which Earth will be invaded and conquered. Then they show the privates the room where they grow the plant men. We see flower pots, most of which have a hand sticking up out of them. When they prepare to leave the room, Philbrick says goodbye to the plant hands, one of which waves bye-bye.Although there are warrior men back on their planet, the women don't seem to know anything about love, so Philbrick teaches Dr. Puna what "kiss" means. She swoons, allowing Penn and Philbrick to escape. They return to base and tell Colonel Awol that he must stop the spaceship from blasting off. Awol does not believe them and orders them to be thrown into the guardhouse, assuming them to be drunk. But when Philbrick swears on his Space Commander Connors' secret ring, Awol asks to see the ring. When Philbrick shows it to him, Awol shows Philbrick his. They utter the secret code words and do the hand signal. Then they discover they both belong to the same stellar squadron, and it turns out that whereas that Awol is only a junior flight leader, Philbrick is a senior flight leader, which means Philbrick is now in command.The three of them head back to the cave. Penn says the three of them will not be enough to stop the space broads from taking off. Just then, a bunch of Indians come along, whereupon it turns out that they also are members of Space Commander Connors' flight squadron, only one of the Indians is General flight leader, and proves it with a badge pinned to his bare chest. So now, the Indian is in command.But they all have a pow wow, during which the Indians and the colonel get drunk. Penn and Philbrick go back to the cave and manage to blast the rocket ship off into space, marooning the two women. But Dr. Puna gets Penn to teach Professor Tanga what "kiss" means. They all get married and live happily ever after.I saw this movie a couple of times in the 1960s on the late show, and I liked it so much that I bought my own copy on DVD recently. I was looking forward to one of my favorite jokes in the movie, when Penn and Philbrick try to get telepathic control of one of the plant men. The way I remember it, Penn says, "Focus on his eye."But as the eyes of the plant men are spaced really far apart, Philbrick asks, "Which one?""The one next to the carrot," Penn replies.Imagine my disappointment when I found it was not on the DVD. Then I noticed that IMDb says that the television version is ten minutes longer than the theatrical version.I guess I'll have to wait for the director's cut.

Soldiers on a base near mountains go out to search for aliens. Two privates are the stars Philbrick/Bob Ball who is smaller but jerky and Penn/Frankie Ray. There is a lot of overacting but funny scenes.Philbrick has a water hose that goes out of control in the beginning of the movie. He squirts everything, himself and the other soldiers around him.They later talked their Colonel into letting them go look for aliens in a cave. The Colonel lets them go because him and Philbrick belong to the same club and are wearing the club rings. They find aliens, ones that look like tall vegetables but very strong who capture them.They later meet the two alien women in charge a professor and a doctor. The woman are tall and pretty. The men from their planet start off as plants grown by the women. Philbrick and Penn are attracted to them but the women are all business.Later Philbrick and Penn escape with the veggie men chasing them. They try to get help from some Indians on horses so they can stop the aliens invasion of earth.The Indians don't understand English. One of them does a little and does a dance which is so great and funny lots of turns, very talented. He also has a club ring like Philbrick. They all end up getting high by smoking a peace pipe and drinking something. The Indian dancer says "I don't smoke" but whatever it was they drank and smoked they all ended up laying on the ground later. This movie had some really funny part is in but very stupid language. Example: Their Sgt use words like "man, dig, hey man what's going on here, like man what's going on here, hey listen both you cats". The movie tries to use words that are supposed to be cool but are not. Other word like "chicks, babes. dolls, you send me, your cool, daddio, crazy man, getting hitched, like slaves" just did not seem right.The movie was funny but very immature and Philbrick talked a lot of baby talk and was hanging on Penn too much. It is a black and white movie made in 1962.The best part of the movie is the head Indian with a cowboy hat and long dark hair that did the dance. There was no name given to him so I could not find out who took the part. If anyone knows please let me know on the message board.

!!!!!!!!!WARNING!!!!!!HATRED FOR WANNA-BE CRITICS AHEAD!!!!!!!!!I can't understand why someone would even bother to write a bad review for this one. A movie that begins with the title" R. I. Diculous presents... an impossible picture........ "can't be beaten in any level, except perhaps in its own "genre" of stupid B-films that DON'T take themselves too seriously. This one certainly doesn't.So, enough with all your serious reviews and your politically correct opinions. Go and rate some more films to get satisfaction by judging what you wouldn't ever be able to make and leave the review section for us movie lovers!This is by no means recommended..... UNLESS you watch along with some friends, a special mood for this type of "humour" and of course....... BEER (or other kind of booze, anyway!) ENJOY!