SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

MartinHafer Over the years, I have tried to keep up with IMDb's ever-changing Bottom 100 list. While I love good films, occasionally I like having a laugh by watching completely inept ones...and often the IMDb list is good for a few chuckles. However, I have noticed one thing...many of these lowest rated films really are NOT that bad. Heck, with over 19,000 reviews to my credit, I can think of hundreds of films worse than many of the IMDb entries. Well, there's a reason for this...many films on the list were skewered on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and so they are more familiar to many other bad films. Plus, I think viewers often mix up a terrible film with one that is very bad but made fun of on the show. So, when I saw "Extra Terrestrial Visitors" was on "MST3000", I decided to find out for myself if it's really that bad. Some other dubious films (such as "Mitchell" and "Girl With Gold Boots" actually turned out to be okay films despite being on the show and on the list. But I also need to locate a version of the movie that wasn't altered by "MST3000" (and this often isn't easy). Fortunately, in a recent search on YouTube, I found an original copy of the 1983 film.Unlike other entries on the list, "Extra Terrestrial Visitors" was originally a French film and was crappily dubbed into English. Because of that, it is possible that the original French version didn't stink quite as badly as the version I saw.According to IMDb, this was originally a film with evil aliens. However, with the success of "ET", they decided to quickly rework the film and include the kid and the now likable alien! This alone would account for making the film a stinker, as this sort of clumsy reworking of the script cannot help but hurt the film. And, it certainly is clumsy having the adult alien out slaughtering folks and the 'cute' (??) baby alien in scenes intended to capture your heart! In fact, it really comes off like they had two separate movies and tried, clumsily, to splice them together. Neither story works well...and the worst of the two clearly is the one with the kid and the baby alien who hatches out of an egg he finds. The alien looks pretty stupid and it's all about as heart warming as a case of indigestion!But the important question to me is whether or not the film is bad enough to be on the Bottom 100 list. I do think it's terrible and before they added the stupid baby alien, it might have actually been watchable. Here, however, it's just a mess...especially when this sweet baby alien starts killing and some horny young adults are tossed into this weird melange. A senseless and stupid film...perhaps bad enough to make the list or at least worth considering for inclusion on the list. As for me, I prefer "Mac and Me" as it's a much bigger budgeted rip- off of "ET" and yet fails on every possible level!

William Samuel First off, the title is rather misleading. There are no pods in this movie. There are plenty of people though. There's Tommy, a little boy who lives with his mom and his perpetually cranky uncle in a house in the woods. And there are poachers who get stranded in the woods when their driver bails on them. Plus there's a teenage rock band that goes camping in these same woods, and also becomes stranded when an unseen landslide blocks the road. We first meet them as they're recording their latest track, 'Hear the Engines Roll Now', sung so badly that it sounds like 'Idiot Control Now.' Even the lead singer, when asked what he thought of their session replied "It stinks." He could have been talking about the whole movie.None of the people I've just mentioned are given much in the way of personality, brains, or motivation, and as a result I was unable to care about any of them. But at least they're better than the monster, which looks like someone crossed Greedo and Alf, and added an elephant's trunk. Actually, there are two monsters. One hatches from an egg that Tommy finds in the forest, and is named Trumpy, probably a reference to his enormous schnoz. It turns out that Trumpy can "do magic things" which he shares with Tommy in scenes that are clearly meant to rip-off E.T.Meanwhile, in the forests outside, Trumpy's mom is searching for him, and killing everyone she meets. She/it racks up quite a body count before the movie is over. The monster's attacks here are among the least exciting I've ever seen, but I do wish the pace of the killings had been sped up, because then there would be no more characters and the movie could be over sooner. And speaking of ending sooner, it takes a full half-hour before we even see Trumpy. Until then the movie keeps jumping back and forth between the teens, the poachers, and Tommy until we're not sure that we're still in the same movie.This is partly to blame on the slipshod editing, which jumps between settings with no transitions or reason for doing so. It's like the movie doesn't have the attention span to stay with any one group for more than a few moments. And the technical and stylistic issues don't end there. The photography is rather grainy and the colors largely muted, and most outdoor scenes are obscured by thick clouds of fog. I don't know if I've ever seen so much fog in my life, at least not on land. And there's an annoying new-age soundtrack. Most puzzling is the credits. Both the opening and closing credits are accompanied by incredibly out-of-focus footage from an entirely different monster movie. What the hell? Overall, Pod People reeks of cheapness, with no sign of talent by anyone involved on the project. It tries to be both a chilling horror film and a heart-warming children's tale, and it fails miserably on both counts.

bigverybadtom Not until I came to IMDb did I realize this movie was not American-made; guess the picture of Ronald Reagan threw me off. And Reagan's movies may not have been great, but even his worst movies couldn't possibly have been this bad.What is this movie, exactly? A mess. On one hand, we have a set of poachers who find a set of strange eggs in their wanderings, on another, we have a set of terrible rock musicians who go out camping into the woods where the eggs are, and on another, we have a little boy who lives in the woods with his mother and father or uncle or whoever the man is, and the boy has a menagerie of small animals in his room, including a kitten. He finds and hatches one of the eggs, and it grows into a small scruffy aardvark-like alien creature who does things like make the boy's clothes move around as if it were a Peter Gabriel video. He also tolerates it when the kitten starts chewing on his snout.But who is this mystery alien? Is he behind the killings of humans in the woods (including the band members)? Has another egg hatched, and a different alien the killer? And what is to be done with the first, whom the boy knows he cannot keep around? If this whole thing was deliberately created as a bad picture to be laughed at, the creators couldn't have done a better (or worse) job.

FairlyAnonymous Hopefully you got the joke on my summary up there. Either way this is one of those movies that is horribly bad, but it is so bad that MST3K makes it hilarious, and the movie is hilarious even without MST3K.This movie has nothing to do with the title. Actually the movie was going to be more of a horror movie, notice the original poster of the movie is more horrifying. But at the last minute E.T. came out so they tried to make the movie about a kid and his trumpet alien. Prepare to be amazed.OK the plot seems to be broken up into several movies which is really annoying (MST3K notes this) there is a plot with some poachers, then this leads to the plot with the kid, there are some teenagers, and there are some trees. Either way these poachers find a meteorite where they find eggs and decide to destroy them because naturally when you find something foreign you want to destroy it. Well one egg remains and this annoying kid finds it, so he takes it home. Apparently this kid is some sort of women because his voice is obviously dubbed. Also he seems to have a lot of pets and is some how smart... the movie tricks you into thinking she *cough* I mean he is smart. Then there are some teenagers and all of the girls are... yeah... I will avoid using any bad language here. The teenagers are going on this trip and they stumble across the mother alien who is killing some people in search of her last egg.Long story short Trumpy (the alien) is magical and has this insanely annoying scene where he pretends to be Mary Poppins. Trumpy's mom dies and the story ends with everyone being happy.This movie is very bad, but it is very funny on just how stupid it is. Though it is slightly gross in a sense. You know when you watch a movie that is so stupid that you feel a little sick? This movie gives me that feeling whenever you see Trumpy. So please watch this movie with MST3K if you can... if not you should still watch it.