Voyage of the Rock Aliens

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I just got home after a party, and tuned on the TV to try get some sleep. Then I saw Pia Zadora and Jermaine Jackson in a popular video, then some 80's new wave freaks in a starship with a robot, singing melodies from earlier years (now that i know that the movie is from '88 and i thought i was from 84). Then there's this beach, with other group singing and Pia Zadora dancing... really the only place i ever enjoyed Pia Zadora was in Naked Gun 1/3. DON'T EVER LOOSE YOUR TIME WATCHING THIS VIDEO !

I stumbled on this movie by accident, when I turned it on, my wife gave me 'the look' and asked "Why???" She changed her tune pretty quick and now it's something we tell our friends about. If the 80s were your decade then you MUST see this movie... Although don't expect Jermaine Jackson to actually be in it. He's in the opening sequence but that's all, and that's okay because the real stars are Pia and the aliens...

In preparation for another episode of the "How did this get made" podcast, I watched "Voyage of the Rock Aliens", which fortunately was free on Youtube and answers the question, what would it be like of Troma produced a musical, hired two garbage bands and made up a flimsy plot as they went along? Eager to learn more about rock music, a group of aliens come to Earth. Their exploration leads to the town Speelburgh and the diner, in which their leader Abcd (Tom Nolan) falls for local girl Dee Dee (Pia Zadora). Unfortunately, Dee Dee is currently the girlfriend of local hardman Frankie (Craig Sheffer). As the aliens form a band to go against Frankie's musical act at the high school battle of the bands, two killers escape from the local lunatic asylum and begin a killing spree. And there's some business about a giant monster in the lake - but who honestly cares. The movie starts with a music video starring the leads, and Jermaine Jackson. It's not good and sets a tone for the musical performances that make up the majority of the film, in the sense that they are bland and forgettable. To be fair, I thought after around twenty minutes of the actual film that it might prove alright. There are some sight gags and some other comedic bits that were OK - but it didn't last and the second half of the movie, where it becomes clear that there's not really a plot, really dragged on. Slamming on Pia Zadora isn't really fair, as she's quite pretty here and, along with Craig Sheffer (then more cheekbone than man) is one of the better performers in the film. Admittedly, this may be because the rest of the cast is filled out with musicians from two actual bands, with no acting experience and it shows. Michael Berryman, from "The Hills Have Eyes" is in the film too, for some reason there's two escaped psychopaths though when really his was the only one necessary to what little plot resolution there is. I guess I'm not really into ironic appreciation and I never saw this movie in the 80's when at the very least it wouldn't have felt quite so dated. Something like John Waters "Cry Baby" covers some similar ground to this but is a much better film and I appreciated that coming to it for the first time in the last couple of years. This though, despite a few initial flourishes, ends up mostly boring.

This may be the most cheesy movie ever.But it always makes me happy. It shows the 80s in fun and light hearted style. if this movie had came out in 83 or 84 it would have been a hit.

I'm not kidding. This one is appallingly bad. Where to start? It really doesn't matter, this movie sucks on every level, so by all means, watch it! Enjoy it! A few things in it's favour (well, two): As usual, the Bad Guys Band is much better than the lame heroes-(or are they?)-band. What can I say? Frantic 80's Rockabilly/psychobilly (well, somewhat frantic) is just a lot cooler than toecurling 80's electronic awful 'rock'. Also, 'When the Rain begins to fall' has been a long time favourite of mine. It's used twice, the first time in a totally unrelated videoclip featering Jermaine Jackson Himself, the second in a tagged-on unrelated musical number with the bad-boy-turned-good lipsynching Jermaines part. In short, watch it, you'll be amazed.

100 times better than Grease. You will never see this type of creativity and attention to detail again.

So rip off Devo is traveling through space and sees a rock video for rip off Beat It then decides to land on earth where they meet Pia Zadora and rip off of Grease rip off band. This "movie" is truly terrible and is a perfect example of how and why musicals are generally bad. The "plot" if it can be called that is a big nothing that strings together some truly awful musical numbers. perhaps a weird kid with a weird sense of style might enjoy it were they to see it young enough not to care about anything else in the movie. Richly deserves it's place in obscurity. watch only if you feel like punishing yourself.

Aliens come in a space ship shaped like a V shaped guitar, in search of goof rock. That rock is actually gay Pia Zadora 80s pop, but hey. The come in a high school in a little city named Speelburgh, and there the main alien is in love with the main * (Pia Zadora). However, he has the coolest rockabilly boyfriend (Craig Sheffer, also a gang leader in The Road Killers) which is the best high school gang leader I ever saw on film. Aliens are looking for trouble, and he's gonna kick their ass. Perfect musical almost plot less. High school gangs, choreography with lowered panties, tits in a PG movie, robot alien who turns into a fire hydrant, aliens who don't fit in, rockabilly vs. gay rock battle of the bands Run DMC vs. Aerosmith style, Craig Sheffer too cool too be true, monster from the local radioactive lake, Michael Berryman (Pluto from The Hills Have Eyes) as a lunatic escaped from the local asylum rampaging around school with a chainsaw, but he's actually nice and hooks up with the school's sexy female greasemonkey, silly and lovable songs and choreography, perfect clothes, especially female, crew members being turned into people from toys via a machine, everything and all. Great movie.

This movie is VERY VERY bad. That any reviewer here flagged a spoiler alert is rather funny, as there is nothing remotely like a plot that could be spoiled. The one truism here is that whoever was in charge was in love with the look of Craig Sheffer. His navel and 8-pack are on display throughout and his couger song is must-be-seen to be believed. If you have a child 6-12 perhaps, with a weird sense of style and fun, this might be something good to put on after they've watched all of Pee-Wee's Playhouse at least 10 times each. If a gorgeous, very blown dry, 24 y.o. Craig Sheffer is your flavor, maybe go for it, but he is on display in most of his early movies, none of which dip near the level of this. Otherwise, avoid. It is not even worth it much for a laugh. It is a VERY BAD 80s music video stretched out to 90 rather hard to take minutes. How they got Pia, Ruth, Craig, and a Jackson in this thing is the only aspect of it worth contemplating. A VERY GOOD version of a camp send up of teen flicks is Rock and Roll High School.