Once upon a time there was a brilliant horror director named John Carpenter. He burst onto the scene with Halloween, which was not only masterfully done, but spawned a whole genre of bad sequels that still plague us today. He followed that up with a string of hits, including The Thing, which is still for my money one of the scariest movies ever made. And throughout he showed a wonderful feel for what it was that scares us. But then something went wrong. Its hard to pinpoint exactly when it happened, perhaps as early as The Prince of Darkness, which was creepy but deeply flawed, or They Live, certainly by the time he made the regrettable Memoirs of an Invisible Man. But somewhere in there, a decade ago now, the great man lost his touch.

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And so we are left with jumbled, cliched garbage like "Ghosts of Mars" from a man who we should be able to count on for top flight sci-fi/horror. How does Carpenter's latest film go wrong? Let me count the ways. He begins the movie by making an early critical mistake that smacks of a film student trying too hard -- he decides to show the movie in flashback mode! I don't know how much worse of a decision you can make in a action/horror type yarn -- from the opening moments of the film we know exactly who is going to make it and who isn't (although the odds of Natasha Henstridge not making it were admittedly slim). And then after a decent setup, he proceeds to turn the whole thing into a brainless action flick in the style of his "Escape From" movies, or maybe a modern day Mad Max. Complete with stupid weapons and goofy makeup even. Truly lowest common denominator stuff -- no imagination whatsoever. It could really have been set anywhere in the past, in a post apocalyptic future, on a prison island, on Earth, anywhere, anytime -- Mars, which Carpenter claims he wanted to make a movie about, is totally taken out of the equation, and his martians apparently have nothing better to do than act like a primitive tribe and practice martial arts. And the worst part is that the basic concept buried underneath all the garbage was actually a pretty good one -- in the right hands it could have been very creepy. I feel embarrassed for Mr. Carpenter that its actually reached the point where I wish that another director had been given the chance to direct this same basic storyline. SO much more could have been done with it.

As it is, we're stuck with this. And this is not good. At all.


This film is more or less waste of time to watch. It has such a thin and simple storyline that it is an insult to any person over 3 years old. The character building is non-existing, with some of the actors trying so badly to make up for the lack of dialog or decent scenes, that it is just painful to watch. 95% of the film takes place in about 300 sqm area, mostly all within one building. The inconsistency in regards to how the "Ghosts of Mars" actually operate or affect people is obvious, making them anything but scary. What I would like to say though is that based on what the actors had to work with (horrible script, compressed location, undefined enemy etc.), Natasha Henstridge and Ice Cube did a pretty good job. But seeing a great actress as Pam Grier in this was sad - and I wouldn't be surprised if she will remember this as one of her worst career choice ever! However, the biggest problem with this film, is that you don't care about anyone or anything in it, which in "horror" movies is a must. I give it 4 out of 10 but only for some good visual effect, and due to my love of sci-fi films in general.


The plot doesn't fully make sense, there was a lack of suspense, the acting was not spectacular and the big finale was barely a finale at all.

Sad to see John Carpenter having to revert to the the technique in which sudden appearance of off screen subjects/objects that is plainly visible to the character on screen in order to give us a scare. Although I do admit that I did jump out of my chair a bit in the scene where one of the Martian Police jumped out from around the corner while the other Officer was walking toward it, but that was such a cheap shot.

The only scene where there was any slight amount of suspense was when we see the door off to the side slowly opening up, but that just lead to another cheap shocker instead of building up on it.

The flashback didn't work because it was a big letdown as to how Natasha Henstridge ended up being the only survivor on the train coming back from the miner community. I guess it wasn't heading toward the way ALIEN was going to turn out.

The rest of the early scenes were pretty banal, John Carpenter's version of character building, leading up to the second half of the movie where it was basically a action slasher.

I guess it might have worked as a action movie, but then you would have to sit or sleep through the first half of the film.


Dreadful space western goes to show that John Carpenter is, alas, creatively burnt out. Basically an outer space remake of ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, as just about everyone else has noticed, this also manages to include elements of THE THING, PRINCE OF DARKNESS and non-Carpenter sci-fi films like ALIENS and SPECIES (also with Henstridge in the lead). Throw in a typecast Pam Grier in leather as a lesbian prison guard (as if JACKIE BROWN never happened) and a mechanical Anthrax score, and you still haven´t got the edge to help this turkey anywhere. Ice Cube is actually pretty good under the circumstances, but the rest of the cast is reduced to martian ghost zombie attack victims... The ending is totally ridiculous, and thus very fitting to the rest of the film. When are you going to make a great movie again, John? 2/10


I have not seen enough of John Carpenter's films to properly evaluate his body of work, but based upon what I know, I will not hesitate to say that this is probably the worst he's put out so far. If this keeps up, he'll be just another tired hack. And don't try to say it wasn't his fault or anything, because he shares screenplay credit.

I freely admit I feel a touch of anger when reflecting upon "Ghosts of Mars." After all, I love science fiction, and decided that it was worth a rental after Roger Ebert, as well as JoBlo's Movie Emporium, reviewed it favorably. I hoped to get at least a mildly entertaining movie, but it failed to live up to even this modest expectation. To be frank, it's a real bore that kept me looking at my watch. To me, the only highlight was the decent B-movie cast. They try very hard with what they have to work with, but to little avail. Pam Grier is always worth watching, but her character gets killed off too soon. Perhaps she realized what a stinker she was in and abandoned ship.

The storytelling is routine, and the direction is clumsy at times. It saddens me to see John Carpenter, creator of "Halloween," make something so shallow, generic, and forgettable. I really don't think he set out to make a bad movie. On the contrary, I got the sense that he sincerely attempted to make an entertaining action flick. Alas, he fails. There is one good thing that can come out of a viewing: generally speaking, Carpenter is only as good as his material.

*1/2 (out of ****)

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I'm worried about John Carpenter. He used to make such good movies. The Thing, Christine, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, the list goes on. I can't understand why he has made the horrible waste of film stock that calls itself Ghosts of Mars. His first mistake was picking Ice Cube. Now I have no problem with Ice Cube except acting was not one of his talents and sci-fi horror movies are not where he should be spending his time. Natasha Henstridge is likewise not a great actress. Of course, most of us know her as the hot alien in Species. Her acting is just as wooden as it was in that picture. A mostly no name supporting cast with the exception of Pam Grier and Jason Statham who brighten up the background for a little bit before being sunk by the bad dialogue. The "ghosts" themselves are humans that have been possessed by ghosts and they look a lot like the fans at a Marilyn Manson concert. John Carpenter, who writes the music on all of his films, has gone for a psuedo-metal kind of sound here. It sucks big time and Anthrax and Steve Vai couldn't make it any better. This movie didn't have much going for it in the first place and with Mr. Carpenter flubbing this one up I don't know what is happening to his once great talents. I'm scared for the future. Bottom Line: Don't see this movie unless you are a diehard Carpenter fan or if you love Ice Cube. Chances are you will still be disappointed.


Terrible. It makes me wonder how John Carpenter ever made a good movie. How could you look at this and say, "Hey, thats good work." Stupid look and stupid looking characters and stupid plot and stupid ending.

The leading actress is pretty.......Ok thats the one good thing

A weak 4


John Carpenter was once an extremely talented film-maker. By the time "Starman" came along, I was convinced that there was no genre in which he could not excel. Since then, sadly, it's been a long, slow descent into mediocrity, straight THROUGH mediocrity, and into madness.

"Ghosts of Mars" is, as many have observed, not only formulaic, but derivative of Carpenter's past (and far superior) films. Take the faceless hordes of "Assault on Precinct 13", crossbreed them with the possessed victims of "Prince of Darkness", add a dash of "The Thing", and there you have it. This might be forgivable if any moment of this film were as entertaining, creepy or exciting as any of those films' worst moments. Sadly, it can't even attain the level of "They Live".

Has Carpenter forgotten even the most rudimentary skills involved in telling a coherent story? It certainly seems so. We're given flashbacks within flashbacks until we are literally three levels deep. This is just plain incompetent. The characters display almost no personality traits that aren't repetetive and annoying, and their motivations are almost nonexistent. Their plan for defeating the hordes is lamebrained in its best moment, as they've not been given enough information to even have a clue whether it will have any effect at all.

Perhaps most disturbing is an almost aryan approach to the casting. Only one member of the cop party is not white, and our main character, Natasha Henstridge, is as white as a human can get while retaining life. The criminals, on the other hand, are, to a man, people of color. Particularly discomforting is a scene in which Henstridge twists the arm of a black man, demanding that he say that she's in charge. Did no one stop to question this aspect of the production even once?

In the end, though, racism is a minor point, since everything else has been mishandled to such a spectacular degree. I would love to see the Carpenter who gave us "Halloween" and "Big Trouble in Little China" return to film-making, and put the pretender who currently uses his name in his place.


which is what I wish I had done. Some decent actors are largely wasted in this pale sci-fi tale. Score is straight out of Quake, and in fact the whole thing has that kind of video game feeling, though at least in a video game you are participating in some small way. It's not even fun on a camp level. Pass it by.


"I'll Cry Tomorrow" aptly depicts the main problem of movie and singing stars: They work unnaturally hard, dismissing relationships and family, and deal with their problems "tomorrow". Lillian Roth dealt with these problems with alcohol.

The problem with "I'll Cry Tomorrow," however, is its indulgence in its storyline. The bulk of the second half of the movie is just showing Roth drunk and making a fool of herself. The filmmakers are trying to generate so much sympathy for Roth that none is generated at all because of the film; only when the audience member sits down and thinks, "Well, wasn't she a victim of show business (and life in general)."

The parts are most often overacted, though Susan Hayward's performed well overall. The plot, however, is not focused on any segment of Roth's life nor any aspect -- just her alcoholism. I don't know, perhaps "Lillian Roth" is synonymous with alcoholism, but even at that, the movie shouldn't just show her getting drunk 24/7. The angle that the filmmakers are going for, as far as I can tell, is how life as a star has affected her personal life. At the very beginning, we are warned by the confrontation between David and Lillian's mother that a normal life with a family and a husband can and will never coincide with the life of a star.

But once she turns into an alcoholic, the story ceases to consider anything previous. The movie just doesn't know when to stop. It feels that it has to fit in so much in so little time. So it doesn't bother to truly connect the points of her life. It just keeps going and going and going and going... "Hey, if we show x number of scenes with Hayward drunk, then maybe she'll win an Oscar!" It falls into a trap that all biopics fall into -- not knowing what to keep in and what to leave out.


...no really they did - not just because this film was so awful, but you simply never know! To take some of the UK's finest character actors, take one of the funniest antidotes to 'chick-lit shopping novels' I've ever read to produce this steaming pile of 'god-awfulness' beggars belief. Okay, so casting 'talent Dyson' Anna Friel wasn't the greatest idea ever but Joanna Lumley and Greg Wise couldn't even carry it on their (absolutely!) fabulous shoulders. These types of movie are one of the reasons that the UK film industry is still flagging ('cough...nepotism...ahem). The director tried some bold moves and techniques but poor Anna just wasn't worthy of them. My partner still hasn't forgiven me for taking him to this, do you know how many Arnie / Bruce / zombie films I had to (uncomplainingly) sit through as penance? The book is outstanding, her best ever, if you are thinking of renting this movie I urge you to buy a book instead - and if you're not a big reader then you could stick pins in your legs as you watch it, it may help you stay awake.


A couple of weeks ago I had a get together with a bunch of Matt Johnson ( Aka The The ) fans down in London and a couple of people I'd met there , namely Duncan and Ange , had like me attended film school . As in these type of situations the topic of conversation soon got round to lamenting the demise of the British film industry . It may sound bitter but we all agreed that the reason was because the industry in this country is crippled by nepotism with people getting their movies financed simply because they know the right people , not because they have any obvious talent

MAD COWS is a case in point . Apparently it's based on a novel by Australian Kathy Lette which probably explains how her husband Geoffry Robertson managed to get a walk on part in this movie . Robertson isn't a professional actor which means a member of Equity has been deprived of an income . Actually at least one other actor has also been deprived since Mohamed Al Fayed the owner of Harrods also appears in a walk on part . As for the actors who have paid their dues to Equity I wasn't impressed . Anna Friel spends the movie with an entirely unconvincing Aussie accent while Joanna Lumley is abysmal since she recreates her role as Patsy Stone from ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS

The supporting cast I will reserve judgement on because I've a feeling that the director Sara Sugarman is more to blame than the actors themselves . A case in point is an interrogation by a detective who has arrested the heroine for stealing a packet of frozen peas ( A pathetic plot twist ? Glad you agree with me ) and my gut instinct is that the scene was hopelessly unfunny to begin with but instead of the director beating the screenwriter to death with a limp script Ms Sugarman has told the actor in question to put on a funny speech impediment and other clown mannerisms . No doubt the cast have nothing but kind words about working with Sara Sugerman but you don't make a movie to enjoy yourself - You make a movie to let the audience enjoy themself and there's no enjoyment here as we have to endure silly performances , MTV style direction in a very plot less and episodic story that is a kick in the guts to anyone who has struggled to make it in the movie business in this country

But at least MAD COWS proves once and for all that it's not what you know in the British movie industry - It's who you know


Although I didn't expect a masterpiece, I at least hoped for a bit of wit, considering the writer and the cast. However, I was sorely disappointed.

It started horribly when you realised the central character was going to be using a fake Australian accent throughout the film. After that, irritation turned to despair as a feeble plot, uninteresting characters, an excruciating script and very sad jokes were unleashed on the unfortunate audience.

If you ever get a chance to see this film, run away as fast as you can.


I have read just about all of Kathy Lette's books, they are fabulous. This movie however, was just a total waste of time, I couldn't possibly say anything good about it. All I can say is, I am pleased that I didn't bother seeing it at the cinema.


I feel compelled to write. This is the in my humble opinion a terrible film. When the script and plot thins it disappears into an MTV collage of images. If you suspend your ideas of reality for a while it could cause the odd smile but this is its only redeeming feature. Tired cameos by quality actors added to the misery. Characters were never introduced, had no depth and ultimately left you cold. Interesting point to watch for me was the investigating detective whose speech impediment vanishes when he reappears in the film. Maybe the effort was too much I certainly felt exhausted by it!


As a big fan of Kathy Lette's early novels, I was so pleased when I heard they were making this into a film. I now hold my hands up and say I really should be shot for not knowing any better!! This film is an absolute stinker. It is jumpy, makes zero sense and has managed to cut all the good stuff out of the book and just leave the crappy bits. The book verges on the ridiculous but always retains its humour - this film doesn't. I can't quite pinpoint what it is I hate so much about it. Actually, yes I can - everything. It's totally ruined the book for me. I've read it since and could not erase the image of a truly terrible performance from Anna 'Beth Jordache' Friel as Maddy. Give this a wide berth.


CGI has to be one of the worst things to happen to cheap movie-making! Now instead of silly special effects we get Playstation Graphics on the various creatures in every cheap monster movie. The Marabunta Ants are no exception! From far away they look like little black dots that are moving in perfection synchronization. Up close, they look like big plastic ants that you can buy at the Dollar Store in those fake bug bags. Someone writing in another review pointed out that the actors keep getting the names of the little kid mixed up, and it is true! The Indian guy is also Grey Wolf or Red Wolf depending on when they are talking to him. And how about a giant ant hill where people sink into it but there are no ants?? Three people sank into that ant hill, and last time I saw an ant hill, the ants at least come out; especially when they are eating full-sized humans. Does anyone remember "THEM" which is a great ant movie?? Well, THEM used flame-throwers to kill the ants, and that was cool. Here, the ento-moronologist rigs a flame thrower from some kind of toilet bowl cleanser and an enema bag, and the flame is about the same as you can get from any cigarette lighter. The guy lights up his flame thrower (with a tiny little flame) and then from the ground going upwards a flame covers the screen!!! What a bogus effect, especially since you can still see the guy's flame thrower in the background and the little tiny flame on the tip!!! Meanwhile, the entomologist's teacher-friend is shooting the ants with an air gun. NO DUH!!! For real, an air gun! Except she claims she is using magnesium bullets, which in theory should burn like a flare gun. However, in the movie, she is shooting away at the ants, and they keep showing where she is shooting and absolutely nothing happens!!! Apparently somebody forgot to add some kind of CGI smoke or fire. Meanwhile, as the two idiots are walking around the ant logs oblivious to the thousands of ants creeping up on them; their friend in the helicopter is getting eaten alive! Funny that the ants attack a guy on a helicopter and yet the two dorks who are on foot somehow get ignored while they are sticking their hands into ant larvae (looks like rice-pudding) and kicking over the logs which are presumably the center of the community. Marabunta is basically the poorest, dumbest, and most pathetic ant movie ever made. It is an insult to ants everywhere, and to the memory of "THEM" which is a 50 year old movie that had better special effects than this horrible turkey.


A large number of killer fire ants have awaken and start to consume people and animals in a remote area of Alaska. So it's up to a small group of people to figure out how they can stop these dangerous predators before they reach a major town.

Yep, that pretty much sums up this dour TV feature. It's bad. Again, did I tell you that it was bad!? I recorded this thinking that it might be cheesy fun, but really, there's no fun to be had. Gee, I should have gone fishing instead. True, it's a nature vs. man story, which that genre flooded the 50's, but for recent times this one is utterly boring and hardly enjoyable. Even a bad film made back then on this topic, at least it was unintentionally humorous, though sadly it isn't the case with this one. The opening sequence proves it! Most of the time I was thinking how did that happen or you got to be kidding me. This is because there is SO many things that lacked consistency and how many coincidences can you get, plenty! These one- dimensional characters are plain senseless and seem to forget too often that there are killer ants around, after battling them just a second ago and they don't seem to know ants can climb! What are terrifying are the ants themselves, the CGI effects are awfully staged and rather shoddy. That really goes for the lame explosions and patchy flamethrower too. But these ants can supposedly strip the skin off a human body within 30 minutes, although with out an ounce of blood. There's really only one drop! Just how big are they supposed to be because the rubber ones used to stick on someone when they are being attack is about twice the size of the CGI designs! They even take the lazy option of by providing a lot of deja vu moments involving scenes of the ants being used over and over again.

The plot goes for some intellectual speeches that bore you to death with its scientific mumbo jumbo. No way is this predictable hokum entertaining with its galore of clichés and mind numbing dialogue. A lot of the things you hear just make you cringe in disbelief. Please stop the bad pun! The corny acting was rather standard for this type of production, but there are some recognisable faces. Like Eric Lutes and Mitch Pileggi from X-files fame. Julia Campbell was lovely too. Just expect the usual enthusiastic performances. The acting might have been better than expected but also the cinematography was rather breathtaking in bringing the Alaska's wilderness on the screen. The backdrop was elegant. Too bad the direction and pacing was shamelessly lethargic and handled in a flat manner and plenty of the sequences show it. The telegraphed score is terribly worked in, but not as bad as the use of the stunt doubles (, the white water raft sequence where they decide suddenly to wear hats for the occasion). But like everything does in these shamble TV features, all the things work out in the nick of time yeah right!

"Marabunta" is nothing but sour grapes. At least a hinted sequel won't see daylight, well I hope so.

"flush them back to South America" You tell 'em!


A swarm of ants from South America decide to over run Alaska.

Cheesy and silly from start to end. Poor animation on the ants, to begin with. Sometimes you see some actual footage of about three or four real ants: scary. Attacks are the most contrived sequences you'll ever witness. One dummy climbs into a giant ant hill. Another guy fires a pistol at the ant hill. Some other clod tries to attack them with a tractor. Still another dimwit fires a rifle at the swarm as they try to surround her. Nobody ever seems to think of running away; the ants move at about 1/1000th the speed of a human.

One guy is in a truck driving in circles while fire bombs go off on either side of the truck, no matter where he is at any given moment. But I love the "Let's blow up the dam" sequence best. There's no reasonable explanation for why this would help, or any assurance that it would work. They just decide to blow up the dam. A helicopter picks up a guy after an 2-second earthquake knocks him off his feet, and he rolls down a hill to land atop some dynamite he just lit. And on it goes.

Good for a laugh at how stupid it all is.


So the movie starts out with a honeymooning couple giggling in the woods when they come upon a giant, muddy hill. The husband says, "Honey, climb to the top of the hill so I can take pictures of you?" And I'm like, "Sure, why not? I'm sure there are no killer ants in that hill..." WRONG!!! Suddenly the wife is being pulled into the hill (after she was clearly tired of being photographed, no less), and when the husband tries to come up to save her, he gets dragged under too. So I'm sitting there saying to myself, "Wow. These must be some big-honkin'-a** ants. I'm intrigued." WRONG AGAIN!!! The ants are about the size of my thumbnail, which makes me think, how in the world could they all climb to the top of the hill and pull two grown humans under. Whatever. The other highlights include one of the natives seeing the skeletal remains of his deceased brother and saying to the coroner, "What could have picked my brother flesh clean," with all the emotion of a bad actor reading cue cards. The ending is silly, and there is, of course, the setup for "Marabunta: Terror in Burline Pines 2." But it's entertaining enough in a bad way that you'll keep watching until the end. A mediocre 4.


If you read or have read many of my other reviews you will find I love bad films. A few days ago I was looking for a tape to record on. I pop a tape in and what do I find? A tape of Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! A lucky(?) find!

I just finished watching it. Man is it bad. The entomologist is an idiot. Anyone who knows insects should know that ants cannot swim. They need a twig/log/ground or some sort of bridge to cross a body of water. Our "hero" seems to forget this when they are on the bank of a river being attacked by ants. Hello? I'm overweight and even I could outrun these poor CGI ants.

Another problem I found was with the kid. Not him personally. Poor "Chad" has his name screwed up several times. He is called Scott, Jake, and maybe one or two other names in this film in addition to Chad. I found myself laughing my butt of at each of these goofs. Once it happens twice in one scene each time was a different name.

You do not want to see this. The acting is bad all around. The effects are incredibly bad.

0/10!!


This movie could be the worst movie I've ever seen. It has been showed two times on television here in Norway, and it stinks!!! The first time I saw it, I laughed and laughed of the bad acting and the bad effects!! They suck big-time!! The first time I saw it, I didn't catch the name of the movie. The second time this movie played here, it was the replacement for some sailing-contest, so I thought there was no hope on getting the name of the movie, since they don't show the name of the replacement-movies in the newspaper. But I searched up the character name Jim Conrad here on IMDB, and found this movie. Now I finally know the name of the worst movie I've seen. This movie, the acting, the effects, it all sucks big time!


Worst. Movie. EVER!!

Nothing much more to say really. Just bad. This is my personal opinion of course, and I really did try to see god things in it. I just couldn't find them.

The plot stinks. The actors don't even try. The special effects are so bad they would make any decent grandma cry. The music has as much of a mood making in it as a fridge.

My advice? DON'T BOTHER!!!

Go rent or buy another movie. And if you're here to see if the TV movie of the night is for you, and it's called KILLER ANTS, then just turn off the TV and find a good book. Or go visit a friend.


has anyone noticed that this "movie" is made up of about 6 scenes in total? Each scene if you look closely (which really, you don't want to) is played at least 3 times over. and who noticed the massive case of 'cameltoe-itis' that the teacher lady had when asking for the gun? man, she's the style master. the CGI for blowing up the dam is cutting edge, not to mention when the helicopter goes kaboom while traveling at granny walking pace.

overall, this "HORROR" movie which would have trouble scaring a two year old is not worth paying the five dollars to rent it out. this pathetic excuse for a film was probably put together in 3 days (or less) for fifty bucks (or less).

if you have just watched this movie, you just wasted an hour and a half of your life which you will never get back.


Hey, did anyone notice that when they heard the cut off thing explode, they said we cant get out of here now. they blew it up earlier than arranged. when they were in the middle of the two dams, they pulled over to the side of the road before stopping, why would you do that when your the only ones left? And just when they were about to stop on the side, you can see one of the stage crew's arms in shot. An Negro wearing a white shirt with a watch on. He tells the car when to stop. Also the computer animated graphics are shocking, it looks like someone has created them through Microsoft Paint. Especially when the dam is blown. Then the different film footage of the dam over flowing.


Let me start off by saying I was forced to give this movie a positive score and my actual rating is -28. If you enjoy being bored to sleep or feeling sick to your stomach, this is your kind of movie. I don't think words have been invented in the English language yet that can fully capture the disgracefully poor quality of "Killer Ants!", but I will do my best. The acting in this movie was some of the worst I've ever seen. Listening to the one liners thrown back and forth between the main character and the women made me throw up several times in my mouth. Probably the only things more sickening were the action sequences. I think the director stole his kids piggybank and used it to fund the entire movie because thats the only explanation for the ridiculously stupid battles and explosions. In one scene, the two main characters are fighting off a horde of ants moving towards them at 3 meters per year. Instead of running away, they wait until they are surrounded so we can see the same picture of ants repeated over and over again. I don't think a retarded kid could have been fooled into thinking they were actually surrounded by ants on all sides. To sum things up, if you are feeling in any way suicidal, do not watch this movie as it can make the happiest person in the world want to jump off a building. I hope FX and any other station that airs this movie goes out of business and suffers for allowing this movie to be seen.


It's the ultimate anti-climax when you realise the thing terrorising the good folk of Burlie Pines is a plague of marauding soldier ants!! Most of the village is evacuated but one, small group is left to fight the insect invaders. Plastic skeletons and terrible acting do not help in saving this film from being placed onto the worst films of all time list.


The opening 45 minutes gave an interesting build up but the rest can only be described as awful. I assume that either the money, the writer or both ran out.

The police chief managed to get rid of the ants from his car by driving around the block. Maybe everyone else should have tried that!!


I watched this film on Sky Movies last night and it has got to be one of the worst I've seen - terrible acting, effects and a ridiculous plot full of holes. It is so bad it to be almost funny in places, except that I wasted an hour and a half of my life over it - Stay well clear!!


This "movie" made me laugh even though it wasn't meant to be a comedy (I think). It is so awful, it shouldn't have been allowed even on the TV. The characters in the film can't act, and they get in stupid situations facing a bunch of ants. Come on, they used a shotgun to shoot at the ants, a SHOTGUN! And when a guy jumped off a barn, he said "Ahh! I broke my leg!" and he starts running off. The ants even took down a flying helicopter, a little extreme, don't you think? The only good thing this movie's for is to show film makers how NOT to make a movie, and it would also be a good comedy about making fun of other bad horror movies.


"Fire ants came to the United States from South America some 60 years ago and are now common in the Southeast. Medical reports say as many as 80 people may have been killed in the country by fire ants." Copied from The Associated Press.

This is the zoological basis of the movie. Apparently the low budget movie has not had the opportunity to overhaul it's script in order to create remotely believable details.

Right, the actors are only giving half an effort, while they don't have any sensible materials to work with.

However the movie can run in the background and you can enjoy the scenery and blue sky of Utah. Maybe the producer and instructor have created a cult material: eco-disaster with comedy elements. Not much different from the much appreciated Dune or other flops like Jurassic Park.

Surely there are goofs, like the motor bike helmet back on the bike after the kids threw it earlier, and the teacher being a crack shooter loading a shotgun with bullets inside the sheriffs office. Any person trained with weapons wouldn't load a shotgun and waive it about inside buildings least of all the sheriffs office. He would surely have protested.

The guy claimed to be running with a broken leg actually just says he 'thinks' he broke his leg, and he is limping off with the help of a friend. Surely the prospect of being eaten by ants could make him eat his pain of a strained ankle.

The bullets fired against the ants were magnesium bullets meant for flash exploding to burn the ants, not shooting them.

Anyway, as most disaster movies the action is naturally beyond all credibility, but this movie is not different from films like Shark, the Tornado movies, Volcano movie etc etc. *½


OK, so this might be the worst movie I've ever seen (a smidgen behind House of a Thousand Corpses), but if you have had a few drinks and are among a few of your closest friends, this could be one of the funniest movies of the past decade. When the ants are closing in on our heroes, they actually take the same clip and show it to you three times - making the ants seem as though they are marching to the same place three times over. This, plus excellent (and when I say excellent, I mean awful) special effects, acting, and death scenes make Killer Ants! a great movie for a Friday night at 2 AM when you've had one too many drinks and you're ready to make fun of anything that isn't yourself. (PS. watch for the scary skeleton in the barn!)


You know a movie is bad,I mean really,really bad when your 11 yr old tells you that they want it on DVD - because its the funniest film they have ever seen. No criticism ever written can truly describe this wonderfully botched attempt at a horror film.The actors even look embarrassed as they run around empty buildings dodging the CGI "ants" that in the finished product appear absolutely nowhere near them! What was Mitch 'X-files' Pileggi thinking when he took a role in this Turkey? My only guess that appearing in this was better than doing the 'convention' round between jobs (ala just about anyone from Star trek!). Maybe it is SO truly bad that as a comedy it's great! G'day from Melbourne!


This is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. It's a creature feature, of course. No, the creatures are not giant, mutated, or in any other way special, they are regular soldier ants in Alaska. The whole movie doesn't make a lick of sense. "OH MY GOD, I'm sitting in my car and there's ants on my legs, I think I'll flail about on the gas pedal and crash instead of getting out of the car and going somewhere the ants are not" "OH MY GOD I'm in a helicopter and there's ants on me, I think I'll flail about at the controls and crash into a cliff instead of getting out and jumping into the river 20 feet away from me" "OH MY GOD I'm surrounded by ants, I'll just curl up and pray instead of running over them, after all they are just ants, they cant jump or run as fast as me" "OH MY GOD I'm surround by ants on a beach, but I don't think I'll wade into the water where ants cant tread" "OH MY GOD there's ants in the town, we gotta flood the entire town" "OH MY GOD the ants will reach Anchorage in a MONTH yes a MONTH, its not like we could organize a few hundred gallons of Raid in a month." It is complete nonsense, there is no way that soldier ants could pose any real threat in this modern world of cars and bug spray, they might have to evacuate the town for a few days and send in a squadron of guys with bug spray but thats it. If that wasn't enough, go see the movie. But, watch it with a bunch of friends so you can laugh at how ridiculous it is, the fact that this movie is actually supposed to be serious makes it even funnier. As a serious movie, 1/10, as a comedy, 7/10, there are some scenes that are so unbelievably senseless that you cant help but laugh your ass off.


After being tempted by a cool shot in the trailer on TV (an ant walking away with a finger), I decided to watch this 'monstermovie'. Boy, what total piece of crap this was. I don't know what's worse: the special effects, the poor acting or the absence of a decent script. Look at those CGI-ants, don´t they look frightening real? NO THEY DON'T!!!! They look like black moving dots, nothing more nothing less! Look at the people running away from the black dots, don't you care for them and their safety? NO I DON'T!!!!! They all act as stupid as hell: Shooting bullets at a legion of black dots who're coming at you doesn't have much effect. When you're being attacked by the black dots while standing next to a riverbank and the firetorch doesn't work properly just jump in the water! I've never heard of ant attacks in the water! How hard can it be to safe yourself huh? Oh and one of the most annoying things is that when you watch this movie on a channel that doesn't have as many commercialblocks as the American TV stations (one every 10 minutes)you'll get the fade-to-black and then fade-from-black every 10 minutes, which is just put in there for the commercials breaks. I got the feeling I was watching the Bold & the beautiful! Whenever you see this movie in your programmeguide (it's also know as Marabunta btw) then you've got two options: you either ignore it as hell and live your life further without any memory to this piece of crap nested in your brains, or you can watch it and laugh your socks off due to all the flaws, lousy acting and most importantly: CGI-effects that make the original King-Kong look realistic


I've seen some made for TV movies and this is one of the worst ever, don't take the time too see it. The acting is one of the worst I've seen in a long time. The special effects where poorly made. Everything is just bad. I gave it a 1 of 10.


A boring night i was zapping thru the satellite channels. When i came to Norwegian channel 3 my yaw dropped to the floor with a loud bang, then i started to laugh and didn't stop until the end credits. This must be the silliest so called movie i ever have seen. The whole thing just screams "we have no money to do this but we are going to do it anyway." and the story is not a story, it's a single plot point "some ants eats some guys". The so called script is heavily based on the idea that it's impossible to run from ants so when the ants (the black dots with legs) attacks, the characters just stands in a corner and screams until they are eaten. This is really one of those so-bad-it's-funny movies where nobody involved in the making never understood how bad the whole idea was until it was to late, so i recommend it to everybody who likes bad movies.


This must be one of the funniest movies ever made. Everything about it is so stupid. The acting is hilarious. The protagonists have no idea what they are doing or saying. The dialogs don't mean nothing. The example:

- "they stroke here, here and here...do you see a pattern?"

- "no"

- "it's something we learned about the marabantu, they move clockwise in 30° angles"

- "you mean we're next?"

- "yes"

- "how much time do we have?"

- "24h, probably less...we have to kill their queen!"

"you mean we're next?" ...hahaha if that isn't hilarious I don't know what is. The action scenes are even worse. The ants are so un-scary. A bunch of little black plastic dots moving like Parkinson patients. The plot is....HAHAHAHAHAHA. Especially the scene where suddenly there is some kind of earthquake and then they blow up the pass. What the fck was that.

If only there was a DVD release or a sequel.

1/10 as a horror flick 9/10 as a comedy


This is one I'm certain those associated with the project will not want on their resumes. I sat there watching this Bomb and began to feel sorry for those attached to the project. The editing is lousy. But perhaps it wasn't the editors fault. Maybe the Director didn't give the Editor enough decent material to use. And, maybe it wasn't the Director's fault. Perhaps the Director didn't have enough time in his budget to get better takes on location. All in all I blame the producers and the network. A very sad effort and a waste of time for everyone involved, from the beginning Production Assistants on the set to the suits authorizing payments in the board rooms, the only positive use of this disaster would be to use it in a "Film Class" to show others how not to produce a movie.


Marabunta is definitely a "bad accident" type movie. You see a scene and you think to yourself, "this is terrible!", "What the heck were they (the writers, director, producers, actors, etc.) thinking?", "It must have been a continuity flaw." , "It can only get better."

But as you continue to watch, it get progressively worse. The continuity flaws have their own continuity flaws, the movie spins around and around the drain, constantly circling but never quite going down, no matter how much you wish you could end it's miserable existence.........

I think the "Horror" categorization was also stretching it quite a bit. I was totally cracking up even without the mimosa breakfast.

In one scene, Dr. Jim Conrad & Laura Sills try to flee from the hungry ants by climbing into a rickety old canoe and paddling down a stream.

The stream becomes a series of rapids and small waterfalls that first damage the canoe, then the bow breaks off while Dr. Jim and Laura, respectively, continue to paddle and scream. Finally, the canoe disintegrates and we begin to thank the movie for ending that scene, but no! Dr. Jim & Laura now tumble down the waterfalls and jagged rocks for an other mile or two. We think to ourselves, "well, no one could possibly survive the certain concussions our heroes must have." All their limbs are sure to be broken now especially when the movie is showing this in slow motion! But No! Dr. Jim and Laura finally roll onto the shore, stand up without a broken bone or bruise, make-up still absolutely perfect. They straighten out their completely clean and untorn clothes, c0ck their hats (that somehow managed to stay on during this whole scene) in a fashionable way, and run towards some other c0ck-eyed scheme to thwart the ants. I must give the movie makers a little credit for "misting" Dr. Jim and Laura after they allegedly got out of the water. I seem to remember Laura even acting like she was squeezing the 'water' out of her hair. Both their faces were mighty dry-looking though, so they didn't completely disturb the movie's track record for anti-continuity. Incontinuity? I think that is the proper word as far as this movie is concerned.

The scooter chase that follows is priceless!


Dorothy Gilman's book, "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax", becomes wan vehicle for the winded Rosalind Russell, who adapted the screenplay herself under the pseudonym C.A. McKnight. Small town widow with nothing but time on her hands marches into the C.I.A. one day and volunteers her services; very soon, she's on assignment as a courier in Mexico, but the pick-up gets botched and she's kidnapped and taken to Albania. After a sprightly animated credits sequence, and the potentially interesting caviat that retired persons need to be stimulated by worthwhile adventures (even going so far as to become "expendable" for their services), this turgid tale fails to give us any undercover excitement. Russell isn't the plucky heroine one might hope for; she's a bit bleary around the edges, and her motherly nagging isn't the amusement it's supposed to be. This film has some of the most ungainly cinematography I've ever seen; Joe Biroc must have been nutty for browns and tans--his whole movie looks like a beige nightmare. Odd supporting cast--including Harold Gould, Nehemiah Persoff, square-jawed John Beck, and Darrin McGavin as the proverbial girl-chasing agent--are all pretty dreary. *1/2 from ****


Rosalind Russell is a patriotic widow with time on her hands. She decides to volunteer her services as a spy for the C.I.A. Agreeing her retiring housewife manner makes her a good candidate for undercover work, the C.I.A. accepts "Mrs. Pollifax - Spy", and assigns her a mission - she is to obtain some microfilm from an operative in Mexico. The plan goes badly, however; Mrs. Pollifax is handcuffed to Darren McGavin, then kidnapped by Communists. The film starts off nicely, with Ms. Russell in good form, convincing both the C.I.A. and the viewer that "Mrs. Pollifax - Spy" is a good concept. Don't be fooled into thinking the movie is about a lady James Bond, however.

Russell as Pollifax is abducted quickly, and spends the entire film in DANGER - she endures prison, scales mountains, and braves the raging rapids. It all looks silly, and unrealistic. We don't get a chance to see her succeed in a few cases, getting to know the character and seeing her worth. We have no idea why the "mission" is important. Mr. McGavin only begins to help later in the film; otherwise, he's bedridden and uninterested. A "lady sleuth" role might have been a better choice for Russell, at this point in her career.

**** Mrs. Pollifax - Spy (5/12/71) Leslie Martinson ~ Rosalind Russell, Darren McGavin, Dana Elcar


Nosy body Emily Pollifax wants to work for the CIA after she is widowed. A typical New Jersey widow, she is given some case.

She is supposed to get a book in Mexico that has important microfilm but the plan naturally goes awry and she is held in Albania with Darren McGavin as a fellow spy.

The film goes downhill rapidly once the two are captive in the land of dictator Enver Hoxha. They plot to escape and manage to do so despite the Albanian terrain.

As the film progressed, Russell really started to look elderly. She wears hats that could have easily qualified for Easter.

Any hint of romantic ways between Russell and McGavin is ridiculous.

The great Rosalind Russell should have been able to end her fabulous career on a much better production than this.


Waited for many years to see this, being a lifelong fan of the books by Ms. Gilman.

However, the film left a taste in my mouth as dry as the sands of Albania it seems.

The film did make good use of the actors. The script was poorly written dialogue though, not as much humor as needed for this film.

I would say the film had an essential problem but there were entirely too many.

First, poorly written dialogue. Just not humorous.

Second, Roz, while appearing somewhat matronly, still looked a little too young for the role. Although her performance was outstanding.

Third, for the attractive thief/rogue agent Farrell, we get Darin McGavin? No, not the blond haired lout I had read about, not even close.

Fourth, Carstairs. Sigh. Just totally not done well at all. Written as an uncaring unfeeling government agency employee who didn't really care at all that he had sent an elderly lady on a courier mission. he humor of the whole situation was contained in the fact that in the book, her mission was an accident. Leaving out the first 20 pages or so and completely changing that plot point, well, it made for a completely unlikable character.

Fifth, they never, ever told her family members in any of the novels she was on assignment. Ever.

Essentially it took a few elements, not nearly enough and compiled a poor movie whose most interesting aspect was its lead actress'es charisma in the role and its musical score.

If you enjoy the books I think you will not like this movie. If you haven't read them and like 70's era comedies, go for it.


Oh, how I love this, the movie that introduced me to the work of Juan Piquer Simon, one of the best "bad" directors ever. It was also the very first episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 I ever saw, way back when, so it will always have a special place in my heart. Although this version of his movie was run through the Film Ventures International ringer (a company that takes movies and re-edits them, adding new music & credits), Simon's style shines through. There's also the usual Juan Piquer Simon stable of actors, including Ian Sera (Kendle in "Pieces") and Frank Brana (the guy who says "You don't have the authority to declare Happy Birthday!" in "Slugs").

The movie is about some poachers who encounter some strange eggs in the woods- no wait, it's about a rockin' rock-n-roll band who are going on a camping trip- no, wait, it's about an animal-loving red-haired kid named Tommy who lives with his unpleasant aunt and uncle deep in the woods. Eventually all these tales converge when Trumpy, a lovable fuzzy alien with an odd shaped head and phallic snout, hatches out of one the aforementioned strange eggs.

Tommy takes in Trumpy and teaches him the joys of jigsaw puzzles and eating peanuts (which Trumpy sucks through his snout, which should be charming but is ultimately a creepy image). Unfortunately, another alien who looks exactly like Trumpy is on a killing spree, and a case of mistaken identity could land Trumpy on the business end of alcoholic Uncle Joe's shotgun!

This is a pleasantly dumb movie, full of dumb characters and dumber dialog ("Oh yeah? Well, you're a jerk!" says Brana to his bearded sidekick). Trumpy is cool, especially when he does "magic things" like stand on the ceiling, make Tommy's laundry fly through the air, and turn an old Simon game into a slammin' beat box (Mix Master Trumpy's jams would later be pilfered by Moby, The Beastie Boys, and others). Also putting in an appearance is a picture of Ronald Reagan, which completely fooled me into thinking this was an American movie.

The MST3K episode featuring this masterpiece is available on video from Rhino, and no fan of absurd cinema should be without it!


A small group of dimwitted poachers stumble upon a cache of strange looking eggs stashed in a cave. One of them gets killed by an unseen creature. Then, a young boy with a weird girly voice and a menagerie in his bedroom discovers one of the over-sized eggs and takes it home to hatch it. Meanwhile, the worlds worst rock band decides to go camping in the same woods. When the sluttiest girl in the group runs afoul of both poachers and unseen creatures and takes a plunge off of a cliff, the unmusical losers take refuge in the house of Molly and her - husband? brother? who knows? - and her young son, the same boy who has just hatched an alien creature called Trumpy out of the egg he found in the woods. Trumpy looks like a cross between a plucked turkey and a vacuum cleaner, and does a lot of dippy things like levitating toys and allowing the cat to play with his nose. When people start turning up dead with strange glowy marks upon their foreheads, it seems to be the work of Trumpy. But soon the truth becomes apparent: there is another creature on the loose in the woods, killing anyone who crosses his path.

This is a very stupid film. Even with the assistance of Joel and the bots, this is still a very painful viewing experience. None of the actors can act and none of the characters are likable at all. All of the girls are either sluts, bitches or doormats and all the men are jerks. The plot is nonexistent, the script seems to have been written by an imbecile...it just roundly sucks. Avoid it, unless it's the MST version. Or unless you're a complete masochist.


They say that MANOS is the worst movie that MST3k has ever shown, I beg to differ. I'm not just saying this to get it through that this movie is a piece of trash, I actually mean everything I'm going to say. This movie is so awful it's unbelievable. I never thought anyone could make a movie that I actually hated as much as this heap of garbage. There is absolutely nothing scary at all, except the fact J.P. Simon made this as a serious film. The acting, dubbing, directing, dialogue, producing, editing, anything you can say about this is in the poorest quality. They couldn't even use the right opening credits for the re-release, they had to use choppy scenes of "The Galaxy Invader" for no reason at all. Why would anyone in their right mind actually want to see this without Joel and the bots? Who would want to see this in its uncut, subtitled version? Who would want to see this at all. Scene for scene, much worse than "Plan 9..."


They say that no good deed goes unpunished. This movie - or should I say "this swill" - shows that to be 100% true. Spielberg made "E.T." and someone made "Los nuevos extraterrestres" (called "Pod People" in the United States) in response. The movie has a boy befriending an alien who looks sort of like an anteater, and some weird things result. WHY CAN'T ALIENS KIDNAP THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THESE KINDS OF MOVIES?! There are plenty of good stories out there and they have to go and make this?!

That said, the movie was not a complete waste. Quite the opposite: "MST3K" once showed it. As you might imagine, Joel, Servo and Crow have lots of fun with it.


Says one of the many annoying characters that populate this really stupid movie. Something comes to earth and lands in the woods next to a cabin inhabited by a high pitched boy who has a thing for animals, his mother and some old cranky guy. There's also poachers running around, and pretty soon there's a group of teenagers driving around. Eventually they all wind up getting killed by the aliens. Well, not all of them, which is unfortunate because then the movie would be over in thirty minutes! Watch this stinker with Joel, Tom and Crow and laugh along at this really, really bad movie. As Tom would say "Huzzah!"


Yeah. "The Pod People" is a movie that is so extremely bad, you'll OK the TV and yell out at the top of your lungs, "It stinks!!!!!!" I've compared this movie with other kid versus alien family movies from the 1980s such as "E.T. The Extra-terrestrial" and the lovable "Mac and Me," and what do both of those movies have that "The Pod People" is missing from sight? A good, well thought out story, innovation, happiness, and not being able to get depression within a single viewing, of course! So do not, I repeat, do not watch "The Pod People" without Joel and the Bots of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," because after watching the MST3K version, I couldn't imagine what this movie would be like without the funny commentary!


This movie combines the friendly alien and the killer alien into one adventure. Well actually it is almost like watching three movies, and none of them are very good. First, you have poachers, then you have a kid living with relatives of some sort, then of course are the wacky teens going camping. Then there are the two aliens, both look alike, but their personalities differ. One is on the rampage, killing people here and there. The stupid thing is I just don't see how anyone dies. Sure one girl falls off a cliff and her friends pick her up and jostle her around continuously, but everyone else seems to die for no reason. The monster hits the people with very weak karate chops (the alien looks like Alf) and the people fall over dead. The friendly alien starts as an egg that the boy raises. This alien has powers to move stuff around that the other alien seems to be lacking. In the end it is just a bad movie. The boy says all the aliens want it to be their friends and sure the one he raises is nice enough, but the other one is killing indiscrimintly.


While I don't agree with those reviewers who claim that "Pod People" is the worst movie of all time - these viewers have obviously never seen "Teenagers Battle The Thing" - it is, indeed, a very painful viewing experience. It's got brain-dead characters uttering highly contrived and unlikely dialog and acting with the finesse of sock puppets. (It's also got an English dub created with a tin ear and ESL voice actors reading their lines from cue cards for the first time). It's got fuzzy, washed out sepia tinted photography that resists any attempt by the viewers' eyes to pull pleasure and satisfaction out of the film stock. (It's possible I just saw a bad print of the movie, but even so.) It's got a highly derivative plot that is derivative in all the wrong ways - what's the point of ripping off E.T. if all you do with it is create a "spam in the cabin" type horror movie??

It also gets off to a rousing start by subjecting us to a full length performance of the worst version of an 80's pop song ever heard by human ears. Seriously, as if the movie didn't have enough problems with pacing and atmosphere and dialog and characterization, it also alienates us by subjecting us to a supposed "studio session" where the pop star sings a would be song about driving a car with some of the most maladroit lyrics you will ever hear. (FYI, Mr. Pop Star, you don't want feel the wind in your EYES, you want feel it in your hair or your face. If you feel it in your EYES, you are effectively blinded and will soon crash your car.) The character comes off as an abrasive, self-important jerk, and his cronies and cohorts seem to have been drained of all intelligence, humor, self-awareness or even basic motor functions.

I have to say that I liked the little boy. In spite of the high-pitched feminine voice they dubbed over his part, he seemed genuinely alive with the enthusiasm and magic of childhood, which is a miracle given the situations he was probably working in. The cast and crew probably loved him to death, and he was probably as the only person in the film who wasn't aware that he was sinking into a pile of suck. The kid's performance, even buried under a painfully affected dub, adds a star to the rating.

Also of interest is a synthesizer-heavy soundtrack with very "New Age music" elements that both adds to and takes from the movie's watchability. It's got some nice hypnotic "drone" and "trance" elements, but there is far too much of it and it's mixed waaaay too loud at times. It adds another star to the ratings. Well, half a star, but it would have been a full star if the composer had cut it in about half and turned the volume dial down to "10".

As far the rest...I'm pretty sure the director just pointed the camera at the actors and let them roll. It doesn't look like a film with very many second takes or screenplay rewrites, and the poor actors (who come off as European community theater players at best) are left to struggle with the script as best they can. And as I mentioned, the horrible English dub robs their performances of even the limited nuance and dignity they may have contributed to the film in the first place.

Boy, what a *painful* film. I recommend saving it for times when you feel bad about yourself and your career and prospects. Watching "Pod People" for even a few minutes will put things in perspective: "I may have made some dumb mistakes", you can tell yourself, "but at least I never had anything to to with 'Pod People!'"


What to say about Pod People... besides IT STINKS! Well most of the MST3K crew's classic lines have already been summarized. This is definitely one of the worst movies to be shown on MST, but the classic riffing of Joel and the bots makes it pretty painless. The sketches with the keyboards and Joel and the bots rendition of "Hear the Engines Roll Now" are classic.

"Hear the engines roll now... Idiot control now... Hideous control now!"


******SPOILER/S(I guess)******

Actually, I think the, um, band(?) featured in "Pod People" is singing "Hear the engines roll now." Which doesn't make much more sense than what Joel and the 'bots imagine they're singing (their own version is a gas) or excuse the fact that the song just plain sucks. And if the music sucks, it can only be because the, ah, movie(s?) in which it is featured also sucks. As Mad Scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester puts it "it has nothing to do with pods, nothing to do with people and everything to do with hurting." Fortunately, some of the aches and pains may be caused by MST3K-induced laughter.


This is the worst movie in recorded history! It takes the cake as the stupidest movie ever. If you really want to see it, rent the mystery science theatre version and watch them make fun of it. Otherwise it's not worth your time. The music is just as bad with wierd blips here and there and sparratic, spaz drumming.


I saw this one titled as "Pod People." I thought: "What does this have to do with pods or people???" It seems silly that a bunch of rock stars would go out into the wilderness in Spain and meet up with some poachers and locals. The kid in this film is about as bright as Dan Quayle on neuro-inhibitors. The scene where everything moves around by itself is about the only special effect that was halfway decent. The monsters were BAD.


I have seen some of the stupidest films ever made, but THIS beats all of them. It doesn't make up it's mind if it want's to be a children's film, a message against poaching or a slasher film. The dubbing is worse than some of the Godzilla films and what the hell were the scenes with that green alien at the begining and closing credits for? The thing wasn't even in the movie! Even I could make a movie better than this with a hand-held camera.


Pod People is a chaotic mix of flimsily related plot lines, bad actors, and lame ideas. It seems made to be laughed at-- it produced one of the best Mystery Science Theater episodes. Every scene is loaded with fog, strange people, and a failed attempt at producing a sense of mystery. The only sad part of the movie is that someone actually intended it to be taken seriously. The monster shown in the background during the beginning credits reappears during the end credits and is not seen at any other time during the actual movie. The ending provides no resolution whatsoever, which actually doesn't matter because it's impossible to care about any of the overly stereotyped characters anyway. A scene guaranteed to induce hysterics: Trumpy's telekinetic "fun" with the little boy's toys.


I wouldn't say this is the worst movie ever, but I would say it sucks pretty bad. Please don't watch this movie without the help of MST3K.

So here's what I guess you'd call the "plot" There are some poachers in a very foggy forest. One of them stumbles upon a cave which came from outer space and crashed nearby. He begins smashing eggs that he found inside the cave. What an idiot. So then an unseen monster comes and kills him. A little kid comes by later and picks up the last un-smashed egg for his animal collection. While all of this is happening the worst pop group I have ever heard is going camping in the woods with their groupie, Laura. The band doesn't like Laura very much, even though she's pretty much the only fan the band will ever have. She ends up dying by falling of a cliff (or maybe the monster pushes her off of the cliff, i don't know.) Anyway, the group ends up going to the house of the little kid. The egg the little kid stole hatches, and here enters Trumpy. Trumpy is a good pod person where as the other monster is a bad pod person. And Trumpy, well he can do magical things. By magical I mean crap. So more people end up dying, and who really cares? In the end Trumpy is abandoned in the woods by the little kid, after the kid pretty much worked his a@@ off to save Trumpy the entire movie. This movie dies short and suckily, just as you would have suspected.

I give 2 out of 10 stars for the movie alone and 10 out of 10 stars for the MST3K version. GO MST3K!!!


is probably one of the best lines ever said by Joel of MST3K fame and it completely summarizes this movie. The plot has been explained many times in other reviews, so I'll focus on reviewing the main character, a good alien named Trumpy, who does resemble ALF, as stated by many other fellow reviewers on this film.

 Trumpy, has magic powers that help him befriend a boy who lives in a cabin. These powers are nothing more that cheap special effects, that are less like "magic things" as said by the boy and more like "stupid things" as said by Joel. There's also another alien, an evil one, who looks just like Trumpy, whose reeking havoc around the forest, where the cabin is located. But both of these creatures are just downright creepy looking, which raises the question, how could this boy not be frightened by this scary looking alien.

 Well anyway, this is a stupid movie, though the MST version is quite funny.


"Pod people" is without a doubt, with no exception, the absolute worst movie I have ever seen. In fact, it is also without a doubt the worst movie EVER made. It makes "MANOS" look like a Disney movie comparison. Everything looks SO ugly in it, and when it's not ugly, it's foggy. Nothing is good about it at all, acting, directing, producing, all terrible. And this has got to have the worst score used in a film ever. 50's sci-fi films look like "Star Wars" in comparison to this tripe. "The Giant Spider Invasion" looks like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". I hope I never see that red-haired, girly voiced brat again, or his loser family. I can see why they didn't care about him. What kind of lunatics would release this to America, it must be a conspiracy or something. I feel bad for the MST3K writers, to have to sit through this so many times. There must be at least 6 different stories happening at once, that includes the one going on during the credits (I think those are scenes from "The Galaxy Invader", using a bad movie for the credits of a bad movie, idiots). I HATE J.P. Simon, I don't care what other films he's directed, I'm surprised he could find work after directing this film. Geez, just think about how good, exciting, thought provoking films like "Metropolis" get chopped up so badly to the point of scenes being lost forever, and then released, yet films like this are still released in their original form. I hate this movie, and I want all the people involved with unleashing this on the public to know it.


Yes, I saw this on Mystery Science Theatre, and it was very, very bad, but that guy's shirt made me laugh for at least 10 minutes straight. (They wisely did not comment on it, and just laughed at him too). I would say that is enough to give it a 2 instead of a 1, and besides it wasn't as bad as "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank."


Spain's film industry is notorious for not putting out good movies, and this is a prime example. Los Nuevos Extraterrestres (The New Extraterrestrials for those of you who don't speak Spanish) has a plot like this:

A group of aliens lands and has a bunch of eggs with them. A group of hunters discovers these eggs, and two of them hatch into aliens. One alien goes on a murderous rampage, while the other, who was taken by a local boy as an egg, grows up to be a sweet, kind thing. One of the worst uses of stop-motion photography is the scene where everything moves crazily about in Tommy's room. In the end the good alien gets reunited with its parents while the bad alien dies, and gets immediately sucked into the earth.

Avoid this one unless you're watching MST3K.


This has to be one of the oddest films ever highlighted on MST3K. Starting with a baffling opening - note that the poachers see strange lights while the asteroid/egg chamber is still in outer space - and ending on a depressing note (most of the interesting characters are dead and poor Trumpy will inevitably follow them), Pod People provides two hours of... well, pain.

To me, the high point of the film is that extremely weird scene where Trumpy exhibits his magic powers of telekinesis, toy animation and extreme goofiness. "Wow, Trumpy, you can do stupid things!" indeed.

(As a postscript, one wonders why a previous reviewer used the Official MST3K Episode Guide's summary of the film verbatim.)


Pod People??? Humnnnnnn. Well, if Pat and Chris from Saturday Night Live-fame had a child, it would resemble Pod People's little femme boy waif, Tommy... a bug collecting, perky little blonde he/she that spends too much time to itself... of whom finds itself more comfortable with circa 1970's shag-carpeted, peanut-snorting, karate chopping aliens, rather than his alcohol-soaked uncle (I think) and his Bonnie Frankin (One Day at a Time TV series) haired mother. And how about that rock band? Let's hear it for the "Loverboy" look of love... leg warmers, headbands, Toni-Perms and snappy dialog. "Hear the Engines Roll Now", their claim to fame sounded to me like... "Idiots in Trona" (If you knew what & where Trona is, you would completely understand). The fog scenes were really well done. I highly recommend that wonderful little movie off that had been passed on as being "written". Definitely... "Must See TV"


Wow, where to start? Joel and the crew of MST3K's Satellite of Love have covered most everything. The only redeeming quality of the un-mistied version version of the movie is the soundtrack, which I would love to grab on vinyl -- the synthesized background music is like "Trump"ed up Yanni, Tangerine Dream and Wendy Carlos all mixed together on B-rate univoxes. WIthout the soundtrack to tie it together, this movie seems like three separate films hastily tacked to one another during a short weekend of Bolivian flake-fueled editing. As an added plus (read: minus), the wardrobe choices are reminiscent of a Vanity 6 / Loverboy World Tour. From a directorial standpoint, it's nearly unwatchable, and the major plot twist is likely to be missed entirely due to two identical costumes. The scene with stop-motion animation is worse than a dozen California Raisins Holiday Specials. You may have to watch it several times to even tie the characters to the flimsy plot, and who would want to do that? Not intended for American audiences, but I'm pretty sure it's awful in all cultures. 1/10


If it weren't for MST3K, cheese like this would be lost forever. Leave it to the crew of the Satellite of Love to make a bad movie seem okay. The poacher finding the eggs is funny, "If you wanna make a movie, you gotta break some eggs..." but outside of the lines Crow provides for Trumpy, little of this movie is worth talking about. My major quarrel with this film is the complete and total disregard of time. And the lack of trust in its audience. Okay, so I guess that's two major quarrels. I guess my favorite bit is from Trumpy eating the peanuts: KID: These we'll put away for later. CROW: No, more. KID: Now we can play. CROW: Like hell, more food.

Thank you MST3K.


I saw this movie on MST3K a couple of nights ago...let me just say, "It stinks!" It was very hilarious at times because of how awful it was.

**SPOILERS** (not that it really matters)

The beginning is ridiculous, showing clips from the wrong movie, and then once the movie does start, the acting is terrible, and very little things are understandable. The "pod people" or pod person, since there is only one, besides Trumpy, the lovable (not really) pod kid, goes around looking for its child (Trumpy) but you can only see its legs for most of the movie and when you do see it in its entirety, you see that it is very short and lame, almost looks like Alf. The main characters are a couple of 20-year-olds who are part of an awful band (they have a terrific musical number that is possibly the best part of the movie where the lyrics are incredibly inaudible They go into the mountains for a camping trip, and run into what seems to be some poachers and then find a cabin in which they stay with a family that has one young kid. As soon as the kid started to speak, I got a headache...he had the most awful high-pitched effeminate voice that sounded almost British. The kid finds a little pod person and calls him Trumpy. They have a magical time together (as is shown in one of the worst special effect scenes ever) but soon, Trumpy is accused of murder, (oh, right, the pod people like to kill humans by touching them on the head) and the kid leaves Trumpy in the middle of the forrest...THE END...even the credits were really awful

I would recommend this science fiction thriller however, to everyone! Well...as long as its the the MST3K version, because this movie is pure crap. (1/10)


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After watching a movie like this I lose faith in humanity but after watching MST3K bad mouth movies like this I regain a little faith in humanity. This is one of the worst movies ever. This is really the second time I have watched MST3K and fully understood it. I watched it with my dad as far back as the Minneapolis year!!! But I never really understood, I mean I understood it some what but not all of the jokes. The first movie I rented was the Movie Version with "This Island Earth" which isn't really bad so I thought MST3K was an damn funny show, now I know it is one of the damn funniest shows ever! This is one of their best episodes I just know it, every time someone screams for help they go through a bunch of names always ending with: McCloud!

This movie is the worst movie I have ever seen (although I want to see 'Manos' Hands of Fate). There are three different plots, PLOT A is about a little boy and his family in the wood, PLOT B is about some singers (who sing for 7 minutes then cut back to boy then sing for another 7), finally PLOT C involve some poachers. Eventually the singers go to the little boys house and you think finally it all comes together, not really the family leave the little boys plot and hang with the singers. Anyway the director must have been the son of the inventor of the fog machine because every scene outside is foggy, not an exaggeration either. Then it switches from winter to summer a few times outside also. The little boy finds an egg and tries to hatch it and becomes friends with it and calls the creature 'Trumpy'. he feed it milk and with the magic of choppy editing the thing grows from a kitten's size to the kids size.

The second plot has the singers getting in a fight and one of them going into the forest and getting killed by Trumpy's fellow creature so they take her to a house and then they decide to go to the rangers house and tell them stuff I guess.

I'll stop here in case you are waiting to watch this movie, but the best part is when Trumpy does magic things which the guys rip to shreds.

Hi all, it's two years later and I want to say that this review is a bit out dated. First, I openly admit I focused too much on Joel and the bots. I was new to MST3K, and just wanted to talk as much as possible about them. Second, I have seen Monster a-Go Go, and that is far worse than Pod People. BTW, I didn't know you can't talk in caps anymore.


I, like many other people, saw the MST3K version of this. I found it absolutely hilarious. Underneath the extraordinarily hilarious comments, I saw a movie that seemed halfway decent, when compared to such other MST3K victims as Manos: The Hands of Fate. ("Manos" makes this one seem like "Braveheart" in comparison.) Though it had an awful plot, script, setting, etc., it did at least make an effort to be (halfway) serious about showing and developing a few characters, about as much as some of the "Friday the 13th" later sequels made. I don't know if I'd give the standard version this, but I'll go with 3/10.


Hoo dawgies, what can I say about this movie that has been said before and better by other people? I'm not sure. Well, I'll try

To start off with, I'm not sure why the aliens in the film are the Titular "Pod People". The "pods" they come from look very much like overlarge chickens eggs. When I think of pods, I think of long sacs or chrysilii (whatever the plural for that is) that the aliens burst out of. Thus, we get no Pod People. We get Egg People. Secondly, while we're on the alien kick, FEEL I HAVE BEEN CHEATED. The opening sequence shows scenes of green, sinister-looking aliens putting hurt on some camper-type people. Unfortunately, it seems this is the only point in the film we see these scenes. The aliens we get are not green and menacing, but brown, hirsute, and ALF-rip-offing. Sure, they can put up a fight and leave glowing spots on their victims foreheads for no other reason than to give the special effects department something to do, but most of the time they just jam with a Simon game and make stop-motion stuff happen all around an effeminate boy's room. And the campers they encounter couldn't be more irritating. There's a pop group and friends that sings a confusing song, three clumsy poachers of varying scary facial-hairyness (one having too much, one having none at all, and one just looking "blah"), and a family consisting of said girlboy (who has a pet for each day of the week, plus "Trumpy" the alien.), his mother (who always seems to call him from the door entering the hallway to his room, rather than stand in his doorway OR ENTERING THE FRIGGIN HALLWAY HERSELF), and a grumpy old uncle (who loves his booze.)

I'm not sure what else to say. It's just a mess. If you're with a group and you're rather giddy, you might have some fun taking potshots at it. If not, "It STINKS!"


"Pod People" isn't about pods. It isn't about people. It isn't really about anything. It is quite possibly one of the poorest films of not only our time, but all time. Its actors make Jerry Lewis look like Jimmy Stewart. Its cinematography makes that crappy B-movie you saw on TV last week look like "Alien." Its direction style makes "Battlefield Earth" seem simple. And its special effects make the old Godzilla movies look like "The Matrix."

Its plot--what little (or nothing?) of it there is--seems to be about a group of singers stranded in some American backwoods. There's lots of mist in these woods. In one scene, a local tells a young man, "Wait 'till day to search for [the alien]," but this film is so poor that it confuses day for night many times. The mist is just as strong during the day as night. And in one scene, two men go driving, only to arrive at their destination two seasons (yes, you read that correctly) later. Two seasons. Wow, maybe he should invest in a faster car?

This film is quite possibly the choppiest film I've ever seen. You have to see it to believe it. BUT WAIT! Don't see it. It's not worth it. It will scar you for life!

In one scene we see poachers in misty woods, then suddenly we jump to a band of singers blaring into microphones. Then we cut to something that looks like Smuckers Rasberry Jelly, then we cut to a kid looking for centipedes, then an RV driving along a road (which they film for about five minutes, just with aerial shots of this RV driving around). I can hear the director (if there is one): "We paid for the thing, we're gonna film it!"

After that we jump to the interior of a cave, where the camera literally goes blind. I wish I had. Then we come out at a campsite at night where, after the elapsed time of 57 minutes and 31 seconds, we finally catch a glimpse of the alien of our film, which looks more like the lovechild of Alf and the Elephant Man. It kills people by making jellybeans appear on there head. No doubt Smuckers jellybeans. Talk about product placement.

Then we cut to some whiny orange-haired kid finding a pod in the Smuckers Cave and taking it home, where he plans to hatch it himself. Poor kid. He must not have had many friends. Then the thing hatches, and eats and eats. Somehow, it is amazingly smart, and learns English. The orange kid names it Trumpy. I think he meant to say "Trunky," since it looks like an elephant. Or maybe he was just playing an homage to Donald Trump.

Trumpy is mistaken for the other alien, and the two aliens run around doing stuff. Trumpy is small in one scene, huge in the next. Amazing how much growing goes on during a cut-away. Then Trumpy escapes into the woods where he lives peacefully for the rest of his life. Well, until a poacher comes along and hits the jackpot, at least.

Unlike some films that are "so bad they're good," "Pod People" isn't. It is truly mind-numbingly bad. In one scene a man picks up a phone, which is dead for some reason or another. As he tries to get the phone to work, I can imagine what he's really thinking: "Great, there's no way to get out of this film now!"

0/5 stars -

John Ulmer


One thing I noticed about this cheese wedge was that it tried to look like it was taking place in North America even though it was made in Spain: 1- A portrait of George Washington hangs on the wall in the main setting. 2- A picture of Ronald Reagan hangs on the wall in the cabin where the hunter got killed. 3- A 'Sprite'sticker is stuck on the wall of the main setting. 4- One of the soon-to-be-victims comments that if the TV weren't out, at least they'd be able to watch 'Dallas' 5-There's one or two American flags hanging around. 6- The whole thing is basically a ripoff of E.T., an American film. There may be more,I'm not sure.I guess they wanted to make it look more American to attract a bigger audience. I don't think it happened. Thank goodness I watched this with MST3K.I don't think I would've made it without them. I'm sure I'd hate it without them.


When i got this, i was expecting some sort of knockoff wannabe of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" or such from the title "The Pod People". No such luck. A better title of this would have been "The Egg People".

Oh jeez, what a stinker. And a pointless stinker. I felt sorry for the little alien kid, Trumpy, left alone in the forest at the end as i could just imagine it thinking, "What the hell did *I* do to deserve being abandoned like this?"

Pointless story. Pointless "acting". Pointless editing. Everything and everything completely pointless. And why is it impossible to find a kid to do the dubbing voice for a kid? A woman's voice sounds like a woman's voice, not a little boy's. To hear a little boy speaking with a woman's voice was a bit startling. And a bit freaky.

However, the movie wasn't a complete waste. The cat actor did an excellent job of being the cat hiding under the bed. Should have won an academy award for being "Best Supporting Cat Hiding Under a Bed in a Foreign Film."

If you see this movie in a dollar bin, spend your hard-earned dollar on something else with actual value. This movie will just make you groan how you foolishly wasted good money.


I remember seeing this when it first aired. I thought it would be another junk TV movie, but it was a little above average. I recall thinking how cold that water must have been for the survivors and if I could withstand it. I got a chill in the beginning right before the plane went down. The pilot said to the co-pilot something like,"Were going down", and the response was ,"I know it." Heres another movie that should be on DVD. This is TV queen Dinah Manoff at her finest.They used real footage of the plane crash intercut with the movie. I'd like to see it again. Maybe it will pop up on a cable channel. These old 80s TV movies are hard to come by.


When you go to watch a movie dubbed `Lorca', you expect it to have something to do with Lorca. This one doesn't. They only take advantage of the great Andalusian poet's name to sell a low quality product. It is a bad detective story. Some one is looking for something no one is interested in. ¿Who killed Lorca? A firing squad, of course. ¿Who gave the order? Nobody cares. Millions of people were executed by both sides during the Spanish Civil War. Garcia Lorca (this is his correct last name) happened to be on the losing party, so if someone could have taken credit for his death, he would have done so immediately. Franco surely would have decorated him. No one had, or has, to hide for this particular reason. To sum it up: avoid it.


Krrish is being promoted as Indias first superhero movie even though that genre is probably the oldest in Indian film history. The movie is a sequel to a big hit of former years called 'Koi Mil Gaya'.After the death of Rohit(Hrithik Roshan),its the turn of the son,Krishna(Hrithik again) to shine as he has inherited the powers of the father.

The movie starts with the grandmother(Rekha) discovering the remarkable powers of her grandson.Fearing that his 'shakthis' will not give her 'mukthi' as they will be a cause for his exploitation,she leaves the place with grandson in tow to a remote corner of the world.The kid grows into a stud along with his horse.He can leap like crazy and climb trees like Tarzan.He is also supposedly very smart and very strong. Yada yada yada.

In this Utopian setting 'drops in' the super exploitive heroine,Priya(priyanka chopra) and wisks Krrish away to Singapore where he crosses paths with Dr.Arya(Naseerudin shah),an evil scientist who supposedly discovered the palmtop 20 years back and now wants to create a 'computer that can predict the future using astrology,astronomy and technology'!!And what does he plan to do with it?Rule the world of course.

The rest of the movie(30 minutes of it) is about how the 'superhero' defeats this 'supervillan'. In the first half,I mistook Krishh to be a kid movie,meant for kids below 10 years of age.In the second half i realized its not even a kids movie..its just a bizarre dumb movie that has more holes in its script than most adults can count.

Plus points:-

1.The graphics:-Pretty good for an Indian movie though flawed in their execution.(everyone knows u have to push down to move up..but newtons third law of equal and opposite forces don't matter for Krishh).

2.Hrithik Roshan:-The hard work is evident,but he cant salvage a horrible script.

Negative points:- 1.Script:-Holeridden and immature. The story moves back and forth of 20 years with no changes, with just the help of hair dye.

2.Product placements:-Placing commercial products in the hands of actors and its done so many times that its pathetic...many scenes are just ads without the voice-over.Hrithik endorses Bounrvita, Rekha is seen holding a bag of Tide(!!) and you can see more hordings on screen than a world cup match.

3.Veterans:-Rekha and shah.Rekha overacts..Shah just doesn't care,so he kind of 'underacts'.The boredom on Shah face is a true reflection of the audiences emotions.

4.Songs:-One average song and 3 other ones that sound all the same.They slow down the pace of the already dull movie.

Though the movie has a few sfx laden scenes that will make you sit up and take notice,the rest of the 3 hrs are a complete waste of time.

Bottomline:-Lots of south indians watch Balakrishna movies just to see how he makes a fool out of himself.Lots of North indians do that at Mithunda movies.Continuing in that line is Krishh.....amusing but for all the wrong reasons.


Hrithik as Krrish and as Rohit put in a good effort, but for me, it wasn't enough to make up for the shortcomings of the film. First of all, the film's first mistake was calling itself a sequel. The moment a movie is called a sequel, people will already have a notion of what they want to see and what they expect. The fact that this movie is the sequel to Koi Mil Gaya I expected it to surpass the first movie. Krrish only surpassed Koi Mil Gaya in terms of the special effects.

I'll talk about the songs first. In Koi Mil Gaya, the songs (with the exception of perhaps one) did much to further the plot. More than that, they were catchy and truly showcased the brilliance of Rakesh Roshan. In Krrish, every time I saw a song number, I just felt the movie dragged on even more. The songs weren't at all catchy, with perhaps the exception of the circus number. In my opinion, the songs just served to drag the film longer.

OK, now on to the leads. I liked the character of Krrish a lot. He had a lot of that Clark Kent innocence and Superman values that truly makes him a hero. What I didn't like though, was the character of Priya who was so utterly selfish that from the moment Krrish followed her to Singapore she did nothing but lie to him. She was too easily influenced by her best friend that you wonder if this girl even has a spine. Not to mention there were so many instances where she showed a total lack of common sense. This is such a step back from the character of Nisha from the first movie who was a strong female character and guided Rohit and did her best to protect his innocence from the harshness of the world. In Koi Mil Gaya I totally understood why Rohit fell in love with Nisha. In Krrish on the other hand, you get a feeling that Krrish only fell in love with Priya because she's the first woman his age that he's seen all his life until that point!

*SPOILERS* ahead:

As for the plot, I felt that they didn't need to connect Krrish to Koi Mil Gaya. All it did was ruin the sweet memory of Rohit and Nisha from that movie (their fate in the sequel is just so horrible). Krrish would have worked much better as a stand alone. I mean, you can't have E.T. and then have Spiderman as the sequel. The Roshans argued that they needed an original reason for Krrish to have his powers. I'm thinking, nothing about Krrish is original! The Roshans have already borrowed so much from Hollywood that it wouldn't hurt to borrow a plot point from a Hollywood movie for the origin of his powers. Sacrificing some originality would have been worth it to keep the happy ending that Rohit and Nisha had in the last film.

Also, the twist at the end where Rohit turned up alive was just so ridiculous. By the way, another thing that really bothered me was that in Krrish, Rohit in the flashbacks while he was still young looked too much like the mentally handicapped Rohit from the first film. The first film already established that Rohit was completely normal and he even looked that way after Jadoo gave him powers. I didn't understand why the movie felt like it had to change that. Perhaps they just wanted the characters of Rohit and Krishna to be really different.

Preity Zinta was good in the 3 seconds that she was in the movie. I felt quite ripped off that that was all she got. The writers got rid of her character without much thought if you asked me. They didn't do much justice to a well established and well loved character. The scene when an old Rohit returns home to find Nisha dead will bring tears to your eyes and you wonder what the point is for the tragic fate of these two.

Rekha was the gem of the film. It was only in the scenes that had her in it did I feel like I was not watching a parody of a superhero movie.

Roshan couldn't find a nice balance between the superhero aspect of Krrish and the romance aspect of it, plus having to establish the background of the film. Perhaps he could've gotten a lesson or two from the Spiderman. This is another reason why I felt that a standalone film would have been better. As a standalone Krrish wouldn't have to waste valuable time telling what happened to Rohit and then trying to bring closure to that in the same film where they are trying to establish a new character entirely.

But the biggest shortcoming of this film was that it didn't make us empathize with Krrish and Priya the way we did for Rohit and Nisha in the first film. In the first film I rooted for Rohit and Nisha to overcome all odds to be together. Since Krrish was advertised as a love story before a superhero movie, I expected the same. Unfortunately the chemistry between Hrithik and Priyanka was colder than an iceberg. Not to mention that the character of Priya was just so weak that you wonder how the hero could fall in love with her. At the end of the film I still cared more about the characters from the previous film than i did for this one. All in all the movie left a lot to be desired and I hope if they make any other sequels that they will be respectful of the legacy that their prequels established.


The one advantage that a sequel has over any other film is that it needs no build-up to set the stage nor does it need to introduce the lead players; it can straightaway get into the meat of the story and catapult the viewer into the heart of the action. However, this one advantage has not been put to use by the makers of Krrish. Though a sequel to Koi Mil Gaya, it tries to begin a new on several fronts and the lame screenplay never really gets off the ground, except towards the last 15-20 minutes of the film, and by then it's too late.

What Koi Mil Gaya was to ET meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Krrish is to Superman meets Spiderman (with some Matrix action thrown in). But Koi Mil Gaya was an extremely well crafted entertainer with a crackerjack screenplay and deft direction by Rakesh Roshan, breaking the conventional hero mould and establishing that a great performance which is not necessarily heroic in true Indian tradition (but has heroism written all over in terms of originality and clever inspiration from other successful works) is bound to work. Krrish is not what one would expect from the same maker. It's not even a patch on the prequel, and wastes away valuable screen time establishing itself and its eponymous hero. Yes, this is a superhero film, and yes, some action sequences have a Matrix hangover and the special effects are worthy, well executed by any set world standard, but it's the writing which is very poor and lets the entire film down.

Krrish does not match up to the prequel nor does it live up to the huge hype which has been created.


This is perhaps the worst superhero movie I've ever seen. What the Roshans have done is simply spent a week watching all the Hollywood superhero movies and spiced it up as 'Desi.'? And who ever on earth told them that Priyanka Chopra fitted the role? No man, don't even think about making the third part for this film. And what's up with the script, character artists and everything? Mr. Rakesh Roshan must take few lessons on writing a powerful screenplay and get rid of lame language. The big problem with the thing is that the Roshans have managed to make a 2006 movie with recipe, that worked only 11 years ago. They've failed to realize they're not making Karan Arjun. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0113526/) Well Roshans, hope to see an original movie next time around!


Rakesh did his best but he couldn't make it he need a lot of improvement. Story of this movie is good but if they used some technology then they would have make a spectacular film. "krish" is the second part of Hrithik's film "Koi Mil Gia" which got some good ideas and made good business. They got some idea from the English movie spider man but i did get it that spider man used the web to fly around the buildings but what did Hrithik use to fly and climb mountains like spider man. Krithik have done a good job in this movie. Rakesh should avoid from Plagiarism and should use some own new ideas to make a blockbuster film. But "Krish is a good time pass movie.