Alien Autopsy (2006)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Jonny Campbell

Writer:

William Davies (writer)

Release Date:

7 April 2006 (Ireland)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

What Are You Looking At?

Plot:

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947. |

Plot Keywords:

Film Set | Airplane | Museum | Top Secret | Hoax

Cast

Declan Donnelly	...	Ray Santilli
Ant McPartlin	...	Gary Shoefield
Bill Pullman	...	Morgan Banner
Götz Otto	...	Laszlo Voros
Morwenna Banks	...	Jasmine
Omid Djalili	...	Melik
Harry Dean Stanton	...	Harvey
Mike Blakeley	...	Camera Team
Matthew Blakeley	...	Camera Team
John Shrapnel	...	Michael Kuhn
Madeleine Moffat	...	Nan (as Madaleine Moffat)
John Cater	...	Maurice
Lee Oakes	...	Edgar
Perry Benson	...	Trading Standards Officer
Jimmy Carr	...	Gary's Boss

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, partial nudity, language and some disturbing images.

Runtime:

Finland:91 min | UK:95 min

Country:

Germany | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:12A | Ireland:12A | Italy:T | USA:PG-13 | Germany:12 | Finland:K-11 | Singapore:PG | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Ealing Studios, Ealing, London, England, UK

Company:

Fragile Films

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When Ray is delivering the pirated video tapes to his friend, in the background shots there is a Citroen Xsara Picasso quite visible in the scene. This is a car that was launched in 2000 so wouldn't have been on the streets of London in 1995.

Quotes:

Gary Shoefield: The whole world are gonna know we're liars!
Ray Santilli: Yer, rich liars though!

Movie Connections:

References Babe (1995)

Soundtrack:

Step It Up

Ant + Dec meet Bill + Harry

The British TV Yoof presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly make their big screen debut (if you ignore their cameo in "Love Actually" where they interview the ageing rocker played by Bill Nighy). It's one of the strangest stories of modern times, the Londoners who discovered the Roswell alien autopsy film.

The cast also includes Bill Pullman as a Hollywood producer who wants to hear their story and Harry Dean Stanton as the original cameraman. Not forgetting the great Omid Djalili (the jailer in "The Mummy" and "Casonova"s servant) who gets to play a kebab shop owner.

I feared this would be a one joke movie (and maybe it is) but surprisingly it keeps its pace due to it's an amusing story with some good performances and some quirky characters including a Hungarian gangster and a granny obsessed with biscuits.

I doubt you will be rolling in the aisles but it's funny in its own way. Not to mention the choice hits of 1995 on the soundtrack. Unless you hate Ant + Dec (looking at the message board there certainly are) or the X-files, it is a Brit-com worth seeing.