Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Walter Five I guess I love this bad film because I caught it on its' initial release in a drive-in on a hot summer night in 1978, well provisioned with a bag of Colombian Gold Buds and a couple bottles of Boone's Farm. We'd seen a still of the stop-motion animation scene in Starlog Magazine, and were quite curious. Wonderfully dreadful and delirious, the animated sequence at the beginning of the film is really the only thing this film had to recommend it. David Carradine's "Deathsport" was worse than this, as I recall, but it's not as good as Marjoe Gortner's "Starcrash"...

O2D The really bad thing about this movie is the amount of time wasting filler.More than half of this is just people walking or driving with no dialogue or action. The set up is great.A weird looking alien in a Star Trek uniform is stumbling through the desert with a giant laser gun.A space ships flies in and two E.T. style aliens get out with a very small gun.They turn the guy into dust and leave.But the guy's giant laser gun and weird necklace survive somehow.Then they spend way too much time trying to get us to feel sympathy for the main character.He's a rich kid with a hot girlfriend but his mommy doesn't have time for him.The cops hassle him and the other kids make fun of him so he goes to the desert and finds the laser gun and starts blowing up stuff.Then we see that the aliens can see he found the gun and they know they have to come back and stop him.But it's not even the aliens that were there, it was their superior.So they left cameras there and left that laser and only their superior can watch the cameras?It doesn't make any sense and they replay the entire scene of the kid finding gun.This could have been a great short but it's a not so great full length.

Scott_Mercer Our Hero is a mopey loser in some jerkwater burg in the California desert. Only, it's kind of hard to determine why his peers mock him and has the mien of the hero of Albert Camus' The Stranger. I mean, he does have a nice girlfriend and his own van. So what if his mom's a slut who goes off to Acapulco all the time to do the nasty with unspecified parties. Maybe they're making fun of him because he's playing a "teenager" and he's actually 26 years old.Meanwhile, cool stop motion aliens chase after some kind of mutant in the nearby empty desert, only they forget to pick up the crazy laser gun he was using, and Our Hero finds it some time later.Long story short, he spends the rest of the movie getting revenge on the Local Color, including ur-nerd Eddie Deezen and the two goofball pot smoking Deputy Sheriffs that keep hassling him with speeding tickets. That is: killing them in giant explosions with the laser gun.Just one problem: using the laser gun (and wearing the accompanying pendant that makes it work, which looks like a metallic avocado on a rope) turns California Joe into a mutant as well.Yup. Funniest moment: After hitchhiking and picking up a ride from what appears to be Mike Love stoned out on mescaline, Our Hero blows up an innocent Star Wars billboard! (Then Mike Love gets it.) As they used to say on SCTV's The Farm Film Report, lotsa stuff gets blowed up. BLOWED UP REEEEAL GOOD! That would be including Our Hero. See, the aliens have been trying to track him down since he's been a naughty boy for using the laser gun. It all comes to a giant climax as Our Hero blows up more cars on a movie back lot street set, where the aliens finally get a bead on him. They take him out in less than a second, making the ending a bit anti-climactic, but that's the least of this movie's problems.The acting is not too bad here, considering what the actors have been "blessed" with. The directing is not the worst I've seen, and the stop motion aliens are really cool, and were quite respectable for the time this was made, and the budget involved. But it's the writing, my friends, that's where this goes into the toilet. Such an awful concept that was so wrong from the word go that it should never have been made. And yet it was, and here I am in 2010, watching this turkey.Take my advice, unless you're a Badfilm masochist like me, or a die-hard enthusiast of stop motion animation, you should probably give this one a pass.

Clay Loomis Hey, you get what you get with a Charles Band production. That guy has been producing an army of schlock theatrical and straight-to-video movies since the mid-1970's. Laserblast is one of his earlier efforts, and actually, one of his best. This guy just seems to have no "Off" switch. Type his name into the IMDb search box for an idea. Almost 250 movies, and he's still going strong.A buddy and I first saw Laserblast at a Drive-In 1978, with a bong and a bag of weed between the seats. The weed probably helped, but we loved it and had some great laughs (and about 20 pounds of popcorn). The Dynamation was pretty fair, and the story was certainly what we'd come to expect from our Drive-In experiences. I just caught it again on a MST3K rerun. Still pretty funny, even without the SOL boys help. (Keep an eye out for boom mikes in frame and film crew reflections. It's a Band trademark.)I have no facts to back this up, but it's my guess that Band just drives his car through the wall of a local film school, grabs a sophomore director, crew, and actors, offers them 100 bucks each and a listing in the film credits. Seems to have worked pretty well for him too. He's responsible for the Puppet Master, Dollman, and Demonic Toys series of films, along with low rent classics such as Zombiethon, Vicious Lips, Galactic Gigolo, and Murdercycle.Laserblast is better than average for this genre of films, but you DO need to be in the mood for them. And hey, nothing Charles Band has done is as bad as say...Monster a-Go Go or Red Zone Cuba. Oh, and somebody a few comments back made mention that this movie hugely ripped off E.T. Well, if you have any questions about similar looking aliens or story elements, take them up with Spielberg, because Laserblast came out 4 years earlier than E.T.