Loading ...Spacemen, Go-Go Girls, and the True Meaning of Christmas and Specemen, Go-Go Girls and the Great Easter Hunt
Posted by Charlie on May 26, 2006Canadian auteur Brett Kelly delivers a double dose of 50’s rocket ships, 60’s go-go dancing, and valuable life lessons in this hilarious double feature. Using footage from public domain science fiction movies and his own talented cast of actors, Brett crafts two gems that are fun from start to finish. Ok now that I have the possible “box blurbs” out of the way we can get into real meat, potatoes and ass-kissing.
In the True Meaning of Christmas, two aliens from Uranus(slap) come to Earth in December to steal a desperately needed fuel source so they can help their planet defeat the attacking forces from Jupiter. They are confronted by members of a global go-go dancing crime fighting sorority who teach the Uranians what Christmas is all about. The spacemen end up not only taking the fuel source back with them, but the power of love as well. In The Great Easter Hunt, the two spacemen from Uranus come back to Earth in pursuit of the evil Baltok, a 6ft. man-eating rabbit dictator. Baltok has captured and replaced the Easter Bunny(on Easter Island no less) but is soon defeated by the spacemen with the help of the crime fighting go-go girls.
Both of these shorts are well written, well shot, and funny as hell. Brett has taken the shortcomings of a low budget production and ran with it, turning it into a parody of Ed Wood’s style of filmmaking. While some of the acting, and action, is a bit wooden, most of it is way above what you might normally expect from a low budget movie. A lot of the actors play off each other well, especially Brett and his co-writer Jodi Pitman as the spacemen from Uranus(slap). I also love that everything that takes place in Outer Space is in black and white, to match the public domain footage, yet everything on Earth is in color.
Bottom line, I would have to say this DVD fits nicely with films like Invasion! and The Lost Skull of Cadavera. It’s soon to be released by Tempe, but you can also get it directly from Brett. Get it for your next party.