#ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH TV#

The animations in this film aren't all that special, as they're conventional and, if you will, a little too over-the-top, often to the point of feeling lacking in life, yet the designs never abate when it comes to delivering on sheer color, particularly during the action. Hey, Shatner's awesome enough to get a gal at that age, but at 82, he doesn't appear to be able to even get good film roles, which isn't to say that I can't compliment certain aspects of this misfire. Poor Shatner can't get away from either space or Priceline, so I guess Kaley Cuoco really is a good casting choice for the role of his daughter in the newer Priceline ad campaigns, because looking at her level of success outside of 'The Big Bang Theory', she can't afford get away from nerdy stuff either, even if Shatner would have to have been 54 when he had her. Man, Carpenter hasn't done anything in so long that it would be in his financial interesting and, well, just plain interesting for him to do an animated 'family' film (I don't want to know about his family), but if any legendary gorror filmmaker was going to direct this, then it would be David Cronenberg, because this film is so Canadian that it gave Brendan Fraser and William Shatner jobs. Yeah, I didn't play that game, but then again, not a whole lot of people did, as surely as not a whole lot of people are going to see this film, except maybe the John Carpenter fans who really are expecting this to be the completion to the 'Escape' trilogy, seeing as how marketing behind this project is limited. Hey, 'Planet 51' could have been worse, you know, like this film, or the video game 'E.T.: Escape from Planet Earth'. Oh, come on, people, don't tell me you weren't thinking it when you saw this film's title, even if you only did it to not think of 'Planet 51'. This really is a poor man's 'Monsters vs Aliens' in every sense, feels more like a glossy kids cartoon for a dreary rainy Saturday afternoon.Ĭonsidering this is all about aliens and space adventure its virtually grounded on Earth for the whole run time, not much escaping going on anywhere.įirst it was New York, then it was L.A., and now things are getting so rough that Snake Plissken is going to have to bail out of Earth itself. The story is weak and pointless, the visuals are bright and colourful but sorely lacking quality, few laughs to be had, drab characters and rather limp action sequences. The voice cast doesn't boost your moral put it that way, you know to be weary when Brendan Fraser gets the lead role lets be honest.

#ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH TV#

Lets just call it planet bland with lots of interstellar alien logos, yep the aliens in this have their own TV stations, sponsors, adverts etc.just like us! its all very crap. But in general most of the locations/settings, all the characters, the equipment on display and alien planet terrain/city all look pretty damn generic and bland. The backgrounds, skies, spacescapes and landscapes all look nice, nothing to blow your eyes from their sockets but they are nice. I guess the real crime here (lame plot and character design aside) is the really really average CGI animation. All the alien sidekicks they meet up with are your bog standard array of yet more cliches.a slimy alien, a big strong angry alien and a cute little furry alien, all bases covered. The main alien characters just look dull, completely dull and lifeless blue cliched aliens. The entire film is completely pointless in the fact that the whole thing has been done time and time again and there really is no need for this to exist.

So as you may have already guessed this CGI animated film contains almost every cliched cheesy cornball sci-fi in-joke and visual gag you can imagine. Why? because the evil human military leader is evil and wants to.plus the Roswell aliens killed his dad in the infamous Roswell crash. There, alongside other captured aliens, they are forced to build this big death ray laser gun thing to destroy planets. A couple of aliens get caught on Earth by some evil military geezer and are held captive in an Area 51 type area.oh wait it is Area 51. Problem is the films title doesn't really sum up the films plot all too well. I hadn't even heard of this film before, I merely stumbled across the poster one day and it looked quite cool, the title was the eye catcher though, love that. Here's me thinking I missed the latest Snake Plissken adventure from John Carpenter, but actually I didn't miss much at all.

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