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    Unique ID Code: 0000031578
    Added by: DVD Reviewer
    Added on: 13/3/2002 07:35
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    2001 A Space Travesty (US)

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    The Most Outer Spaced-Out Comedy Ever!
    Certificate: 12
    Running Time: 98 mins
    Retail Price: $24.95
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    Synopsis:
    First there was Airplane! then came The Naked Gun series. This time Leslie Nielsen is even more far out than ever in 2001: A Space Travesty, a hilarious comedy that dares to spoof where no one`s spoofed before: on another planet.

    When the president of the United States is kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a clone, the police call on Marshal "Dick" Dix of th International Security Force to help rescue him - and quickly, before they clone the rest of the world`s leaders.

    With the fate of the world in his clumsy hands, Dix heads to the planet Vegan, a very strange place run by an evil doctor and inhabited by aliens who, having learned to speak English from watching television, all talk like different Hollywood movie stars. After engaging in some freaky lunar socializing, Dix joins forces with sexy officer Cassandre Menage and master of disguise Captain di Pasquale to rescue the saxophone playing president. They return to Washington D.C., and accomplish their mission of replacing the cloned president with the real president. Or do they?

    Special Features:
    Theatrical Trailers

    Video Tracks:
    Pan & Scan 1.33:1

    Audio Tracks:
    Dolby Digital 5.1 English

    Subtitle Tracks:
    English
    CC: English

    Directed By:
    Allan A. Goldstein

    Written By:

    Starring:
    Damien Masson
    Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld
    Peter Egan
    Ezio Greggio
    Ophélie Winter
    Leslie Nielsen

    Casting By:
    Nadia Rona

    Soundtrack By:
    Claude Foisy

    Music From:
    Johann Strauß

    Director of Photography:
    Sylvain Brault

    Editor:
    Gaétan Huot

    Production Designer:
    Csaba András Kertész

    Producer:
    Danny Rossner
    Hannah Richardson
    Jeffrey Konvitz
    Werner Koenig
    Martin Heldmann
    Gary DePew
    Luc Campeau

    Executive Producer:
    Chuck Smiley
    Leslie Nielsen

    Distributor:
    Columbia / Tristar

    Your Opinions and Comments

    4 / 10
    This review discusses the region 2 disk.
    I admit. "The Naked Gun" trilogy was funny to some extent. However, there is absolutely no excuse for this movie. It`s idiotic, poorly done, not funny, boring or in plain words - utter crap.
    The video transfer is a butchered fullscreen one. There are no compression signs but the transfer shows some grain and imperfections of the source print. The so called special effects are horrible.
    The DD 5.1 soundtrack is ok. The surrounds are used occasionally for sound effects.
    The menus are still with music.
    There are no extras on the disk.
    Bottom line - I don`t know what was I thinking when I rented this movie. Serves me right. I cannot emphasize enough just how bad this movie is. Avoid it at all costs.
    posted by Zvi Josef on 13/3/2002 09:27