2001: A Space Travesty
2/4/2002
COMEDY
Color, R (language, brief nudity, sexual situations), 98 min., CC, VHS rental, DVD $24.98
Street: March 19, Prebook: Feb. 19
Fist Run: L, Int'l.
Cast: Leslie Nielsen (Spy Hard), Ophelie Winter (What I Did For Love), Peter Egan (Bean), Verona Feldbusch (Driven), Alexander Kamp-Groenveld (Shadow Fury)
Director: Allan A. Goldstein
COLUMBIA
Story Line: Police detective Marshall Dix (Nielsen) heads to the planet Vegan to uncover who's behind the cloning of President Clinton. What he finds are aliens, gorgeous women and Dr. Griffen Pratt (Egan), a scientist who might know about the cloning.
Bottom Line: Nielsen's hardcore fans will have a passing interest in this misguided bit of post-Naked Gun spoofery that finally got released to the U.S. video market two years after its completion. Actually, the , shot-in-Canada film plays at least five years old, with swipes taken at Madonna, Prince, Hulk Hogan and the Three Tenors who, in one of the film's funniest scenes, belt out the Village Peoples 'In the Navy.' Nielsen does the deadpan detective routine again, but after a promising opening 20 minutes, with decent special effects and elaborate sight gags, the film grinds to a halt, supplanting its supposed 2001 targets with fuzzy focus on a dozen different movies. Be aware that leading ladies Winter, a French pop singer and Kamp-Broenveld, a German supermodel, also have their share of followers. --Irv Slifkin
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