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OK so it's also an adult movie cause Terry Garr, who plays Marge the mom, keeps asking for her husband, Dick, played by bug eyed Jeffry Jones, by calling out lines like 'Has anyone seen my Dick' or 'Where is Dick when you really need it' ......

Jon Lovitz who playse the dumb emperor Tod Spengo is absolutely outstanding and in his Saturday Night Live element in this movie..... Oh one more thing, please keep this movie away from the kids because if they see you watching it the will get confirmation of the actual fact that we grownups are a little nuts after all.....

Cheese Factor Only!!
Ok, if you buy this movie, do it for the cheese factor only, and you'll laugh yourself out of your chair. Do not buy this movie if you expect a serious plot, expect steller special effects, it is made stupid on purpose for the fast laugh, and that is exactly what you get. I loved it, the "flash grenade" will be forever a classic scene in this movie in my mind. If you like Monty Python, Benny Hill, any of the Naked Gun series, etc, you'll love this. Even the crooked shooting lasers was enough to make me crack up in every shoot scene, hehehehe.

Don't be afraid to buy it for parties either. A large group of people in a good mood for some comedy will bring the house down in roaring fun, I know, I watched 17 grown people unable to eat and drink chips and soda because they couldn't stop laughing. Buy it to have fun, and if you're a movie critic who acts like Ebert and that other guy, don't waste your time, you are too serious to enjoy it. :)

Turn off your brain and just enjoy!
This is one of those movies that make the end of the week so enjoyable. You've spent your whole week dealing with people at work, a job you're not so enthused about, all the frustrations of bills and daily aggravations, but at least you have a movie like this to pop in where none of that matters for a while.

I give this movie such a high mark because of it's value in that regard. I know that by Friday night I'm not looking for a "Schindler's List" to watch, not even a semi-serious comedy. No no, I want the lowest low-brain humor I can possibly find. The stupid humor, where I can laugh loud and often. So you see, it's not so much how good the plot is, or the production, but what the movie can do for you.

The plot is thus; Dick Nelson (who seems to be a normal guy, but is given all the idiosyncracies of the normal guy by Jeff Jones so that he seems quirky) and his wife Marge are on their way to a vacation in their Station Wagon, when an intergalactic magnet manned by a walking Napoleon charicature named Todd Spengo lifts them off the ground, into space, and onto the miniscule speck of a planet that Spengo rules (prompting the obligatory "It's not the size of your planet, it's how you use it.")

What follows is a casserole of Monty Python-inspired humor with a great cameo by Eric Idle who dubs Jones's character anew as "Earth-Dick." Todd Spengo, played by Jon Lovitz in his last good role, is probably the best source of laughs. You wonder how the heck this guy manages to rule a planet when he can't complete this verse in a song, "Oh Marge, Oh Marge, my love for you is..." Not that it matters. I don't think I've ever laughed harder than at the flash-grenade scene, or when Spengo asks his guards "mutton-chops... or goatee?"

Props to Teri Garr too for getting in the spirit of things. You wonder if this character isn't the antithesis of her trouble-wife character in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," but then you think "Naaaah." I like her better in this than "Young Frankenstein" as well.

So yes, buy it, watch it. Don't look to be enlightened, just uplifted. If silliness like this were more prevalent in the world, I predict we'd have a nicer place to live in.