Directed by:
Christopher GuestCinematography:
Russell CarpenterComposer:
Nicholas PikeCast:
Daryl Hannah, Daniel Baldwin, William Windom, Frances Fisher, Paul Benedict, Lewis Arquette, Xander Berkeley, Richard Edson, Dru Mouser, Barry Watson (more)Plots(1)
Nancy Archer is beautiful, wealthy - the kind of woman who has it all, and she's had it up to here! Her mean-spirited father wants control of her business, and Harry, her cheating husband, only wants her for her money. Nancy wants to fight back, but she lacks the confidence until the night she runs into an alien spaceship. At first, no one believes her crazy story; in fact, Harry sees the perfect opportunity to have his wife certified insane. But something has happened to Nancy since her alien encounter. Nancy never used to have a weight problem, but overnight she's literally as big as a house. Nancy Archer has grown to fifty feet tall - and suddenly she sees the men in her life from a new angle - looking down on them! (official distributor synopsis)
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Dull drivel, and you better forget quickly about this being a tribute to the original film or, God forbid, a comedy. The special effects are worth seeing, especially the pool scene, but otherwise it's a story about a good woman who is wished the worst by all those evil men and has to be helped by feminist aliens. Unbelievable. A hint of a joke occasionally appears, but before you really notice it, it's gone. However, the words "I saw something...", which Daryl Hannah utters ten times in the opening forty minutes, are extremely annoying even on the second repetition.
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Daryl is a fine protagonist. I enjoyed the movie about the movie very much, and I still cheer for the scenes where she marches around in cheap scale models and plays with toy cars. The funny thing is that even my nephew's toys have more elaborate details than this. ;) Unfortunately, the original film is archaic nonsense with unsympathetic ninepins that I could easily condense into 20 minutes.
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