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(1 - 18) of 18 OFCS Rating: 41% Rotten Page   1   3.5/4 "The patience and concentration of the film to not wink itself into a coma is amazing to behold, and I was flabbergasted over just how engrossing and playful the picture is."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Brian Orndorf C+ "What starts out as a promising retro comic spoof of '50s era sci-fi movies (think "It Came From Outer Space") digresses into a flat imitation of the mores and social ignorance it initially promises to skewer."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "'Alien Trespass' is neither soulless nor bad. Yet it does not improve on the sources that inspire it, so why not watch them instead?"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit C "It achieves its hokiness by design, which renders it artificial and flat."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider B- "An affectionate, almost reverent homage to the science fiction of the 1950s: Not a lampoon so much as a faithful recreation."   AMCtv.com   Eugene Novikov 2.5/4 "...gently wacky. Although breezy and sketchy on the easy laughs at times, Alien Trespass does promise to entertain for the sole purpose of its campy off-kilter makeup."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "It doesn't want to be camp, but it inevitably becomes so, because the very effort to replicate its models is so knowing that it comes across as insufferably arch."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "A Technicolor photocopy pastiching pastiche. It fetishizes not the 1950's but its empty pop culture signifiers. And as such, it doesn't just signify nothing--it's insignificant."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 2/5 "Retro-style sci-fi action spoof tries hard but doesn't work."   Common Sense Media   James Rocchi 2/5 "It's not really clear why this movie was necessary %u2013 it does not reinvent the 50's movie so much as do a highly faithful cover version of it. (Gus Van Sandy's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho is a similar pointless academic exercise.)"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery B "Perhaps nothing is more lovingly recreated that the glorious technicolor of the time (the film was shot on Super 16), owing as much to production designer Ian D. Thomas's team as the technicians."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, It Came From Outer Space should be blushing like a schoolgirl, because this deadpan recreation of 1950s sci-fi movies is a tribute to its low-budget, high minded charms."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh B "The shrewd script has two of the 1950's primary fixations: the couple who exemplify "togetherness" and the teenagers who could be juvenile delinquents."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow "Merely coasts along limply, lacking ribald tongue-in-cheek humor as well as the unironic self-seriousness that epitomized its spiritual predecessors."   The Screengrab   Nick Schager C+ "Fans of the era will respond warmly to it, but more through its expressed affection than any notable assets of its own."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux B+ "The filmmakers have an obvious love for their work and its source material and it shows."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 6/10 "If the film succeeds perfectly in its aim, to recreate exactly a genre of films noted for how shoddy and boring they were, is it then fair to complain when the film is itself boring?"   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton Read review   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley  (1 - 18) of 18 OFCS Rating: 41% Rotten Page   1