I absolutely love this movie. I first saw it when i was very little and i remember i was scared to death when one of the spaceships flies around in the dark wearing Jessica Tandy's nightdress.
It still has all the charm that it did in the 80's. Jessica Tandy's performance is fantastic. She reminds me so much of my Grandmother and always makes me laugh. I love the score to this movie too.
Mark
'Why am i drippings with goo?'
I saw this in the theaters, and what irritated me about it, is that it seems not to be a real movie, but a marketing test to see how much product placement you can get away with, and still get people to pay for the movie. It goes pretty far in this respect; for instance, the wee creatures repairing themselves using pieces of brand-name cola cans (showing the logo of course), and a 'endearing' character who speaks entirely in advertising tag lines. None of the brands are fictional; all were active, major brand-names (and active slogans) at the time. Is this necessary for the story? How much of the budget came from product placement fees? Was it actually planned from the start as a product placement vehicle? It's impossible that a producer would put that much Duracell, General Electric, Coke/Pepsi (can't remember which, who cares), etc., in a movie without some significant kickbacks. Shame on you all.
My distaste was likely heightened by the fact that I'd paid $2.75 for a severely watered-down fountain cola, and was sitting behind a screen that was maybe 15 feet wide, watching a 'first-run' movie, and it appeared from the quality of the print that it had been trailed through the parking lot in the rain. And the movie turned out to be an elaborate, sugary commercial. Maybe it was a good story; if so, I don't recall. Maybe if they had made it into a movie I might have a better memory of it.
This ad came out in '87. In 1988, "Who framed Roger Rabbit" was advertising Lucky Strike cigarettes to kids. Not long after that, major stars were getting paid to appear on 'Cigar Afficionado' magazine (or whatever) with a stogey in their mouth.