A Doctor, a Gimp, an African-American, and a Beauty land on Earth after 40 years in Space.  Sounds like the start of a bad joke.  OK, well, maybe that's a bad comparison.

You have to love a movie where half of the main actors get killed before the first commercial.  The Gimp gets killed because her leg is hurt.  OK, we figured that one out.  The black guy gets his head eaten cause he was a stand-up type of guy, and alien monsters don't like stand-up types of guys, except as lunch.

The funeral scene was great.  Wonder why they don't have more movies showing funeral pyres with mutant alien crickets bowing and chanting?

Let's face it.  SciFi Channel makes a lot of... less than par... movies.  I watch all of them.  Wouldn't miss them.  But often I'm left with the thought that it was a good plot idea, just poor writing... and often poor acting also. 

During this movie, I spent much of it wondering if it was supposed to be funny, or if it was just that bad of movie.  That question was answered as they gathered their forces.  You just don't say "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" in serious movies.

Bottom line:  See this.  Just don't see it expecting Star Wars, Episode III or Aliens or even Something About Mary.  It's just an enjoyable Saturday night, popcorn, sit on the floor movie.  If you take the movie seriously, you'll be disappointed.  Bruce Campbell makes for a good time.

Just remember.  According the the IMDB, this was one of two choices presented to SciFi.  You could of been watching "The Man With the Screaming Brain."  [EDIT 8/13: Apparently "The Man With the Screaming Brain" premieres on SciFi on September 10th.]

[After biting off a guy's head.]
Mite Governor: That is one of our favorite delicacies... Next to wood.

Doctor: If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.
Human Captors: Shut up.

[The Doctor fixing to do some doctoring.]
Doctor:  Here, drink this.
Patient: Why?
Doctor:  It will kill the pain.
Patient: Why do you want me to drink that if you are going to stick me with a knife?
Doctor:  I'm a Sadist.

Set in the style of the 1940s, the movie is a retro-futuristic story of a huge robotic army following a scientist with a god-complex bent on saving the world from itself.  The scientist was one of several that worked in a secret German gene-research lab outside of Berlin just after the First World War.  He kidnapped the other scientists to help create a huge Ark rocket ship filled with two of every kind of animal, including two vials that holding the genes of Adam and Eve.

About halfway through I was marveling at the special effects and was wondering how the did that, when I remembered that the entire movie was shot in front of a green screen and everything you see other than the people was computer-generated graphics.  Nothing about the scenes look CG, there is no hint from the artwork that it is not a true movie set.  Some of the stunts obviously couldn't be done in real life, but it certainly looks real.

Everything in the movie is big, huge, and larger-than-life, mimicking the style of the graphic novel (aka comic book) that it comes from.  Fantastic creatures, fancy robots, and flying aircraft carriers.

Movies such as Superman, Spiderman, Hulk, and all of those other comic-book inspired movies were just movies inspired by comic books.  This movie felt...  correction...  this comic book was a true animated graphic novel.  After the movie you get that same little tingle of self-satisfaction and joy you got when you flipped over that last page and ran your palm over the cold slick cover of the your newest comic book.  You feel like you could close the cover after the credits and see an advertisement for Sea Monkeys and Pepper Gum.  It was a great feeling.

I don't think the movie did that well in the dollars department.  But it certainly was the most profound animated graphic novel, I've ever seen.  I hope they can do other comic books this well.  The attention to detail and the maintaining of the feel of the comic was rivaled only by the Dick Tracy movie, where every set and costume was one of the colors that you could expect to see in the Sunday Comics.  No other colors were used.  This one blew that away for realism.

Joe (Sky Captain): Could we for once die without all this bickering?