Alien Avengers

*Alien Avengers*
Alien Avengers
Genre	Comedy; Sci-Fi;
Written by	Michael McDonald (as Michael James McDonald)
Directed by	David Payne
Starring	George Wendt; Julie Brown;
Music by	Tyler Bates
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Roger Corman
Producers	Darin Spillman; Marta M. Mobley;
Production locations	Melody Ranch – 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Newhall, California; Santa Clarita, California;
Cinematography	Mike Mickens
Editor	JJ Jackson
Running time	89 min.
Production companies	Concorde Pictures; Showtime Networks; Transpacific Corp.;
Original release
Release	October 25, 1997

*Alien Avengers*
Alien Avengers
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Genre	Comedy; Sci-Fi;
Written by	Michael MacDonald; Michael McDonald (as Michael James McDonald);
Directed by	Lev L. Spiro
Starring	George Wendt
Music by	Tyler Bates
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Roger Corman
Producers	Michael Amato; Frances Doel; Darin Spillman;
Cinematography	Christopher Baffa
Editor	Daniel H. Holland
Running time	81 min.
Production companies	Concorde-New Horizons; Showtime Networks;
Original release
Release	August 3, 1996

Alien Avengers is a 1996 American television film directed by Lev L. Spiro and starring George Wendt. It was part of the Roger Corman Presents series.^[1] It was also known as Welcome to Planet Earth. The film led to a sequel, Alien Avengers II, the following year.

Plot

Joseph Collins, an ex-con, (Christopher Brown) inherits an abandoned and dilapidated boarding house from his deceased mother, and before he even gets a chance to clean the place, Charlie (Wendt), Rhonda (Reed) and their teenage daughter, Daphne (Sakelaris), who are really aliens hiding their true identities, arrive for a vacation. Charlie forks over a bundle of cash, and the alien family settles in. The family's idea of a good time is going out on the town and killing criminals and thugs they encounter on the streets, and bringing the body parts back to the boarding house to snack on.

Cast

George Wendt
Shanna Reed
Anthony Anderson
Anastasia Sakelaris
Christopher M. Brown – Joseph Collins

Reception

Tony Scott wrote in Variety Magazine that the film "depends too much on pre-adolescent gags, and the humor's obvious, the lingo crude, the situations mostly lame, the script bogs down among the excesses, and the windups a letdown."^[2]

Alien Avengers II

Plot

Aliens become sheriffs of a small town.

References

^ Gray, Tim (May 5, 2015). "My First Time In Variety, August 15, 1996, Alien Avengers". Variety Magazine. Vol. 327, no. 14. p. 90. ISSN 0042-2738.
^ Scott, Tony (August 15, 1996). "Roger Corman Presents Alien Avengers". Variety Magazine.

External links

[1] Gray, Tim (May 5, 2015). "My First Time In Variety, August 15, 1996, Alien Avengers". Variety Magazine. Vol. 327, no. 14. p. 90. ISSN 0042-2738.

[2] Scott, Tony (August 15, 1996). "Roger Corman Presents Alien Avengers". Variety Magazine.

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